OHSue

I have a gallon jug of school glue I bought a few years ago with the idea of my son and some friends making goop. I am going to have to try this. I am stunned by the price of the spray basting material. On another forum someone mentioned purchasing Elmers spray glue, but this is way cheaper way to go.
Sharon Schamber uses Elmers School Glue for basting her bindings, it works great. I iron it to dry it.

Tashana

I think I know what my problem is with this beast of a quilt. Every single time I used cotton batting with Elmer's school glue and it worked like a charm. After reading your posts (thank you all very much) a bulb went on in my head - my batting is poly not cotton. I did not have cotton handy and I was itching to work on the quilt so I used poly batting that was lying around in my sewing room for I don't know how long. Mystery solved. Elmer's School glue and poly batting do not go well together, at least not for me. I had to get up and walk away from it earlier today because I got very frustrated with puckers which seem to be multiplying in bacterial progression. I am afraid to even think it but I may have to unglue my quilt and start all over again. OR I should cut my losses and accept the fact that I have became a true quilter by creating my first UFO. To quote Scarlet O'Hara :"I'll think about it tomorrow".

JeanieG

I am working on a QAYG quilt in the QAYG Challenge Section. I am using an 80/20 blend of batting. Just so you know, the Elmer's School Glue is working great on it.

AshleyR

I bought the quilt on ebay and didn't wash it. Big mistake! It was the first one I ever tried spray basting and that didn't work. I pinned it, but didn't do a good job (I went ahead and quilted - full speed ahead! before I realized the spray wasn't doing it's job-or before it lost it's grip). It was still sticky from the spray baste, but not enough to hold. So, in desperation, I tried Elmers, and couldn't iron/press it, because of the polyester batting. That poor quilt was so wavy! That quilt taught me the importance of basting! I think it was coated in teflon!
The good news is, all the stuff I used washed right out!

Tashana

I am obsessed. It's a first day of school and I am packing supplies in my kids' bags and between the two of them they have 12 large bottles of Elmer's and 24 glues stics and I keep thinking how many quilts I could baste with all that glue. Bad mommy!

carol45

I have recently used Elmer's School Glue with Hobbs Polydown batting on a baby quilt. I first put the quilt top on a table, wrong side up, made a grid with glue, and then place the batting on it. I then removed the top and batting from my table, and placed the backing on my table wrong side up. Then I place the top and batting on the backing and smoothed them until the top was perfectly smooth. Then I turned them over, and used the iron at a medium setting to fully smooth the back of the quilt. Once it was pressed dry, it held the sandwich together perfectly. I quilted it with no problem. I did the same thing on a lap quilt, but I did it in sections. No problem. I think that maybe it worked with the poly batting because the wet glue went through connecting the top and the back when it was pressed.

Caroline S

I think I will try this Elmer's glue method on a small test quilt before I leap into a big one.

Neesie

I love the way you describe the puckering! I've had projects like that!

Just wet down the quilt (water in spray bottle) and after a few minutes, you should be able to just peel it apart.

Neesie

Too funny!!!!

ruthrings

When you lay out your quilts and either spray them or squeeze glue from the bottle on to the fabric, does anything come through on to the work surface? Do I need to consider that when I do this?