If you're going to pin baste, the Kwik Klip will save your fingers.

the last fusible Hobbs 80/20 I got from Connectingthreads was old I guess. Doesn't fuse well for some reason. Usually it is what i use. otherwise I spray baste.

It depends on the quilt. If it's my Hawaiian quilts I always thread baste since I don't want pins in the way of the hoop and I don't spray baste them as I am hand quilting. Everything else is pin basted it just works better for me. I use the curved quilting pins that are size 2.

I must have gotten my order from the same shipment as yours. It was the first time I'd tried their 80/20 fusible and it didn't fuse at all, so I ended up pinning my tree skirt like I usually do. I thought that I'd found a short cut, but I guess not. haha I normally pin my projects with straight pins and have always been very pleased with the results, but it is very time-consuming and hard on my hands and nails.

I have good luck with this method, too. Second choice is spray basting.

Used to pin baste. Then tried thread basting. Settled on Elmer’s washable school glue. That is my only way now.

I'm an Elmers girl too. Tried pinning at first, didn't like it.

School glue is the easiest, quickest and best for me.

If it's something I can quilt on my DSM, I'll pin baste or spray baste. I now have a straight stitch machine on a Grace frame for larger quilts, those I don't have to baste.

I always thread baste unless it is very small, but I am hand quilting. I have hand quilted for someone else who pin basted. She got a big kick out of me sending back her pins joined together in one long chain, but that's just how I kept track of them as I undid them.