Originally Posted by
Snooze2978
Dunster, thanks for your imput as I've seen your quilts and they're amazing. Good to know about basting the entire quilt and then go back to do certain areas first. Do you find fullness when you do it this way or do you do some basting within the body of the quilt also? I know you mentioned SITD so I imagine that would take care of any fullness that might arise with starting in the middle of the quilt.
So again, thanks to all who responded. Right now I need to fix my drifting on my robotic system as that's a big problem I have right now.
When I said that I baste the quilt, I meant the whole quilt. I set the stitch length to 3 and sew a couple of deep wavy lines all across the quilt as well as straight lines down the sides, roll the quilt, and repeat. I have to remove the basting as I do the regular quilting, but that's easy to do since the stitches are big. I also adjust the batting every time I roll the quilt, because it can have a tendency to bunch up in the middle.