Originally Posted by
cashs_mom
You don't have to have floor space to baste a large quilt. I use this method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPaI...7sDesignStudio
I also quilt my quilts on a Juki 2200 QVP Mini. It's not a long arm, but a machine with large throat space. So far the largest I've quilted was 60 x 90 on it but I had no problem doing that.
Thanks for the link to that video. I have done something like that with pin basting in the past, when I had a table like that stored under my bed. One tip: tape a toothpick at the mid point of each side of the table so that you can feel the center of the table even with the sandwich on top.
I have used my quilting table (which opens to about 60” x 40”) to baste in sections using commercial spray baste. However, my preferred spray baste is the homemade one (flour, salt, water, alcohol) but it has to dry for a couple hours after you baste the backing before you can baste the top, so it doesn’t work for any method that requires basting in sections.