longarm quilting
 

does anyone use spray to hold sides together when quilting and if so does it gum up the needle?????????? would there be any reason not to use it??????????

I use spray adhesive, sometimes, when quilting close to the outside edges of the quilt. No problems with
my longarm machine.

Use 505 that does not gum up your needle. I'm not sure u have it in USA but that is what we use in UK .

I baste my side edges with the LA.

I don't know about the longarm ............ though for my DSM, if the needle gets gummed up some, then I just wipe it with an alcohol swab and continue on.

I thought that the way the LA makes the sandwich, there was no need for any basting (thread or spray) before quilting. Perhaps someone would explain to me why??

Maybe I'm missing something, but I see no need to spray baste on the longarm.

It won't gum up your needle. I have used basting spray occasionally on my longarm setup -- mostly when I was experimenting with floating the top.

If you want to use it on the sides of your quilt, it won't do any harm; I'm just not sure it will do you a whole lot of good. What I have found is that I need to apply side clamps to my quilt to keep everything squared.

Ditto what Prism said - side clamps.

My frame came with two awful tiny square black clamps, attached with elastic and velcro. I found them difficult to operate and they did not hold tension evenly. I took them off the elastic and replaced them with potato chip bag clamps, wide, grippy, and much easier to operate.

I baste with the longarm and also use side clamps...no glue or basting spray....and that works fine for me.

Haven't used it yet, but I can see how it would help with floating waves AND at the end of the quilt corners since I don't pin the bottom of pieced top to a leader.