pyffer3

I did my first quilt with pins, pins and more pins and the second one with that spray baste (very smelly and sticky) then I read on here about the glue. I tried it on my next quilt and wow was it ever so easy. I am just about finished with my 5th quilt and Elmer's glue has really made the whole sandwiching thing something I kinda look forward to.....I get to take a trip back to my kindergarten days! LOL. Probably my biggest problem/fault is that I use too much. Kind of like if a little does okay then a whole lot does better! Each time I try to use less and the holding it about 12-15 inches above perpendicular is the best. It is easier to get nice thin lines or squigglies. I think I might have given up on quilting if I had to do the old-fashioned pin thing. I got stuck way too much with that first one.

sweetpea

Would you share the recipe for this?

michelleoc

BellaBoo - great idea about the syringe!! Pyffer3 - I'm in agreement with you. I had five quilt tops in a stack, just dreading having to sandwich in preparation for quilting. Once I started using Elmer's, the dread was gone. I'm in the process of getting these completed so they are no longer UFO's.

tate_elliott

Also, when you are holding the bottle above the batting, move your hand fairly quickly. It "stretches" the stream of glue out and makes it thinner. I've even seen the line of glue bead up (like water on a freshly waxed car) on the batting and look like a line of dots.

Tate

Earleen

Found plastic tips at Michaels stores. Don't see the metal ones anymore.

NanaCsews2

Beauty supply store-pick up an empty hair coloring bottle for a couple of bucks. They have a very small opening in a long nozzle attached to a screw cap that fits perfectly on the glue bottles.

nannyrick

I have the tips, but had a horrible experience. While squeezing, the top came off and I had a full bottle of glue on my fabric AND the floor. Needless to say I have not tried it again. Anyway I bought mine at Sharon Shambers web site.

Prism99

Are you talking about using the glue for basting a quilt? Or for basting bindings, glue-basting seams, etc.? If for the latter, I bought the following glue tips at a quilt show and really like them:
http://www.purpledaisiesllc.com/Fine..._Glue_p/69.htm
You screw off the cap and screw on this tip. It makes a very fine line of glue and does not get clogged. Afterwards I screw the original cap back on the bottle and rinse and then soak the glue tip in a jar of water (as it is rather difficult to get all the glue out of the fine tip). I used to use just the Elmer's bottle on bindings and it worked, but I like this fine line of glue much better for bindings.

Gerbie

I purchased the metal tips from Sharon Schambers site, but I can not seem to get them to work for me. I can't remember if the plastic long tips I use came from her site or if I bought them at Hobby Lobby in the model planes cars etc. dept. But I have two long plastic tips that I use. Be sure to put the plastic cap on the tip when you are finished using it. This helps keep it from drying out. Sharon suggested that you DO NOT use a metal pin or needle in the bottle if you don't have a cap, because they have a tendacy to rust and get in the glue. She recommended something we all have from time to time, the very thin (hair like thin) plastic strips, rings or strips whatever you might call them that are attached to tags on clothes when you buy them, many of these have a funny end instead of just the t shape ends. These work well.

ranbro

I got my tips from purple daises. I got 2 for $6.00. http://www.purpledaisiesllc.com/