Basting Strips? Whaaattt???
Hi everyone! I’m about to start a new quilt and in going over the instructions, it calls for basting strips once the quilt sandwich is made and before the binding is applied. Huh? The quilt is made of blocks within blocks, alternating with stars within blocks and that doesn’t seem like anything out of the ordinary so I’m puzzled about the purpose of the basting strips. Not that I’ve been quilting all that long, but I’ve not heard of these strips before. And the really confusing part is they appear to be part of the design, like a very thin (3/4”) border and then the binding is applied. I confoosed.