anyone ever use this home made basting spray?
 

I just watched a you tube video by Chatterbox quilts, by Kim Jamieson

she showed how to make a spray batting stuff, using flour salt water and alcohol, you cook the flour and water till it gets thick and then add a cup of alcohol and then put it a spray bottle and shake it up real good and your ready to use it..

I was wonder if anyone had hear of this method of spray batting..also do you think the flour would spoil after a while.
I remember using flour and water for glue when I was a girl and that was a long time ago, I don't remember to much about how it held up..
I found a site California quilters, here is the site..

http://californiaquilting.blogspot.c...l-glue-to.html

would like to hear if anyone else has used this method before ..Thanks

I think the alcohol is safe. Flour, though, will definitely degrade over time. In some climates it would also attract bugs. I would think it is fine if the quilt is quilted, bound and a shed within a reasonable period of time -- say, less than 6 months.

i remember making the flour glue too. It was quite wet and very sticky; dried hard. In a quilt you would definitely want a thin layer, not globs.

If you launder the finished quilt it would all wash away and probably be fine-- no idea how well it would actually hold/ baste the quilt sandwich. If going to try it I would put together something small ( table runner, placemats maybe) & try it, going through whole process, quilt, bind and launder before I would try it on a whole quilt.bi wonder if it would gum up your needle. I think any spray basted quilt should be laundered when finished ( my opinion) to wash away the adhesive. I personally launder each and every quilt as soon as the binding in done-- it's the last step to a completed quilt.

Great info and great blog! Thanks for posting, I'll try this when I do my next quilt!

Wow, it would be worth it to just buy basting spray. I'd be concerned about the alcohol for the reasons already stated plus the flour gumming up your quilt.

That's an old recipe for making simple glue, usually for kids to glue paper crafts. Long ago permanent glue was made using horse hooves, that's the reason the earliest FW cases have the horrible smell.

Elmer's school glue is so inexpensive and stores so well that I can't see why you would want to go this route. I buy it in August when school supplies are on sale. I thin it down some with water and I like the way my quilts handle. I personally do not like spray basting products because of breathing the fumes-even in open areas. I like to avoid chemicals in my environment and in my food.

I'm 72 and I remember when I was a small child my mother made flour and water paste to use for wallpaper. She boiled it on the stove and then let it cool. Any leftovers had to be refrigerated or they would mold. Sometimes the wallpapering took several days then the rest of the paste was thrown out. There was no alcohol in it. That might work as a preservative in your recipe.

I just read the link provided above and noticed one turn off for me... You have to wait to let the glue/paste dry overnight or iron it dry. Usually once I spray baste I go right to the sewing machine. No way do I want to wait over night for it to dry- and I do enough ironing as I make the blocks and then prepare it for sandwiching. I'd rather pay more and use less effort. Yes, its cheaper than the commercial spray, but a can will do several quilts and costs less than one yard of fabric. And my time and effort are surely worth something. After considering everything it sounds penny wise and pound foolish to me. But that's just my thoughts. To each his own.

I would be concerned more about the flour and mold.

My thoughts too. Too many make at home products may work fine but are a waste of my time. My time is worth more to me then my money.

have heard of vodka and water mix that a lot of quilter's like to spray.

My thought was, that's a lot of trouble (cooking) when Elmer's School Glue is so readily available and takes very little. Basically the same thing, minus the alcohol.

I just read Just Jan's post. I also use spray baste for my quilts. I sprayed one a few nights ago and ironed it to dry it a little as I wanted to start quilting right away. I put it under my brand new epic and proceeded to break thread continously. After I cleaned everything and changed needles many times, I quit. The next day ( quilt was dry, duh) I had NO trouble. I found that freshly sprayed does Not work for me!! I am jealous that Jan is able to go right to the task with no waiting. I am still practicing with the school glue. If you buy the spray on sale, use a mask and go easy on the amount, it is just so much simpler!

How do you apply it?

Hi Reba, I used to use Sullivan's but now use June Tailor since its more available in my area. I have never waited (unless I'm too tired to quilt) and have never pressed after spraying. I am wondering if you might be spraying it too heavily. That's a common mistake. Knock on wood, I've never had a gummed up needle yet, and I've been spray basting 10 or 15 years. It takes very, very little spray. I always spray the batting, not the fabric. I just checked the can and the mfg. says specifically to spray the batting. I have heard teachers say to spray either the top or fabric but I disagree. Don't know if maybe the batting absorbs the moisture or not, but that's my guess. My tips are spray the batting and use the adhesive very sparingly. Hope this helps. Jan

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...h-t242179.html
Check out this older thread here on QB.

No way. I wouldn't want flour in my quilts! Talk about a bug magnet.... It sounds like the process in making it isn't fun or easy either. I'll just buy the expensive spray cans!

Once I sandwich, I finish the project and into the laundry it goes. I don't see much trouble or time to give this a try just for fun.

I too have used the spray on my quilts. It is really nice. If I lay my back or top wrong, I just adjust it. I then reheat with my iron.

The diluted school glue is the method I use on a regular basis.
When school glue can be bought at Wal mart for .50 cents a bottle(Aug. sales), why bother with the work, worry and mess with making homemade???

I have used this technique for the last three quilts I made after watching this tip. I use Sta-Flo diluted half and half, and pit it into a spray bottle. It is quite economical, as my Walmart sells it in a half gallon container for about $3. I have tried the basting sprays, but don't like the fumes.

For those of you who use Elmers glue to spray baste -- what is the ratio of glue to water that works?