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It sire beats crawling around and pins!Safety pins I mean

I use thumbtacks to hold the backing to the wall- if you put them around the outside edge, that part is going to be cut off anyway. The basting spray will hold the batting, but sometimes for a large quilt, I'll use a few thumbtacks just on the edge of that, too. I've never had the top try to fall off- the basting spray will hold it.

I would think that the most important layer to be secured would be the backing. Since I always leave extra backing fabric (that I trim before doing binding) could you use a staple gun to staple the top of the backing to the board? If you didn't put the staples in too far they would be fairly easy to remove once the layer were all spray basted together.

Hardware stores have very large clips/clamps that are used liked spring loaded clothespins. "Spring clamps" are their name. I think they come in metal or nylon.

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Originally Posted by mona202

Getting ready to buy my boards for large wall board but what do you hold the
3 layers of the quilt with when you are stand up spray basting all layers together of a king size quilt. Too thick for binder clis when 1/2" board is added and pins aren't going to hold that weight and chip clips (good ones) cost too much for as many as I would need. Wow now that is a real run-on sentence for sure!

Spring clamps, the ones that look like pliers with rubber pads on the ends. They come in sizes from 2 inch minis up to 10 inch (or so) giant things that will hold huge things. I found this ad via Google and am putting the link here just for illustration; I've never done business with this company:

http://www.pjtool.com/spring-clamps.aspx