As I put the last safety pin in my quilt that was taped down to the floor to baste it... I realized that I did it backwards. The quilt top was face down on the floor instead of the quilt back. What was I thinking?? Ahhh.

So should I take all the safety pins out and start completely over? Or should I flip each pin over one by one? Or just go slowly and carefully while I machine quilt it and take the pins out before I get close? I've never done this before! Oops.

Yes ... Sorry. Unless you want to quilt it from the back.

shooot!

I am so glad other people do such things. I thought I was the only spacy blonde on here ... LOL!

haha Red... nope, I definitely do things like that. I even remember thinking... wow, I have no idea where the pins are going in the top... hmm... This is not how I remember this working out.

I even cleared out my whole dining room, moving all the furniture into the living room and kitchen and cleaned and mopped the floor really good and I towel dried the floor and the whole process took me a good 45 minutes to an hour from cleaning to basting... annnnd at the LAST pin, I realized what I had done wrong.

that's just sad! :( :( I hope you haven't put the furniture back!
You will have to do it all over again. :D

I've heard of quilting on the back. Go ahead and give it a try. If you're doing an all over pattern it ought to work just fine.

My sad tale - I'd finished pinning and realized I hadn't lined up the top and the backing and the backing was definitely short on one end of the quilt. My solution - I drove over to starbucks. Bought a very large frappacino. Once I had the caffeine and sugar in my system I unpinned the whole thing and started from the beginning. It happens!

Best of luck however you decide to fix your basting. I do recommend the caffeine fix! :lol:

Yvonne - I think the caffeine is the solution ;)

Ohhhhh Man!!! I have done things like this too, the best solution is usually to re-do it... so sorry this happened :(

I'd probably machine-baste from the back using very large stitches before removing the pins and re-pinning from the front. That way I wouldn't have to get down on the floor again. The machine basting would be pretty fast and easy to remove once it was re-pinned.

That sounds like a great solution, Prism, I was thinking along the lines of hand basting, but machine would be even quicker. Either way, would she still need to put the pins in the front? Perhaps not.

why not flip it and pin from top side then remove the pins on the bottom....unless the top is wrong side up...yea I've done something similar... forgot to tape the backing down & pinned the whole thing & had too much slack all over had to redo whole thing.....who doesn't make these mistakes??? :D

haha bayou, no it's not that bad. I have done that too! Whoops!

I did that too, ONCE. I called it a blonde moment.... I tend to live up to the title pretty often too, lol!

Yup. That makes even more sense.

Although theoretically one could quilt from the top with the pins underneath, removing them as you go, I think the major problem would be if you miss a pin. Once your machine is very close to the pin, it would be impossible to remove it from the back without taking the quilt from under the presser foot. I think it's mostly an issue of preventing a problem while quilting, ounce of prevention, that kind of thing.....

ermmm do i need to remind you i managed to cut myself with the rotary cutter in my knee.............................................. ...............................................

welll I decided to just go slow and quilt it from the top and take the pins out of the back as I got close and it's working really well so far. I'm doing sections at a time so that I think is helping.

:lol: hahaha

I am so sorry you need to redo your pinning. That's the part I hate. I'm glad I'm not the only one who does things like this.