I read somewhere after spraying when finished iron front and back.I have done this and seems to work.

I felt the same way you do. I have found I ONLY spray baste now. it is so much easier & faster. I have used the 505 that everyone recommends and it is great.

Just did a T-shirt quilt with the June Taylor spray and will now go back to the 505. The garage floor was to hard to crawl around on and keeping the sheet that I put down first in place was a problem as the flannel backing kept moving it around. You don't need to have as much fresh air with the 505.

I tried spray basting with poly batting and it didn't bond at all. Next time, I'm going to spray, press, AND do a little pinning, but not full-on 4-5" pinning. My sewing area and my storage room are in different parts of the house, so I do a lot of carrying my quilt and I don't want the spray adhesive to have the burden of that kind of weight.

I like June Tailors spray from Walmarts and not just because its so much cheaper. You can lay you backing on the floor or wall and tape it down flat, spray, place batting down and spray again. It works great.

I am a spray basting convert. I first saw it done in a quilt store where I worked. What a difference!. You have to protect from overspay by laying down a sheet or papers, but otherwise it is great. It is faster, the quilts lie flatter and you can quilt without those pesky puckers.

BTW - I try to only use 505 basting spray. It is by far the best I have found.

I alwys pin my quilts BUT the posts sound real positive with spray basting. How many cans of basting spray would
it take to do a full size quilt?

Thanks

I love spray basting! I do mostly small projects, but I pin them to a wall in my studio--back-spray-batting-spray-top. DONE! Ready to be quilted. I lay an old piece of fabric on the floor to keep it fropm getting sticky. I did pin a lap quilt up there once. It worked okay. My husband asked where all those pin holes in the wall came from... lol

I only use the 505 and love it, no shifting ever. I don't generally fold a quilt after basting. If I can't get right to it, I prefer to roll it onto something to avoid the folds. When my husband orders fishing poles online, they come in these really terrific tubes that are huge and work wonderfully!

I, too, am a basting spray convert. No shifting, no pins to contend with, and the quilt has the body to make machine quilting so much easier. I love it!