Oh, I love the quilt in the bottom right corner! What's the name of the pattern? I gotta make this one. Love it! ~~Ann~~

Are you showing that you used Elmer's glue to sandwich your quilt. By the way very pretty.

from the pics I am presuming you haver to "flip" this batt/glued back over to then glue the top onto the otherside of that batt?

Oh cool!!! Thank you!! Now question- for whatever reason I thought you dilute the glue with water and spray it on. Using dabs more secure?? And, do you iron it down? Thanks so much!

I like this but my hands won't squeeze that bottle very long. I have arthritic hands. Any suggestions. Could you put it in a plate or pan and us a foam brush to spread it?

It is from the Turning Twenty booklet but I used 30 fat quarters and doubled up on the green and cranberry ones. Easy to do and effective. Glad you liked it.

I was told you can put half water and half glue in a spray bottle and then add 5 drops of liquid dish soap, then swirl the dish soap into the water and glue with the straw attached to the nozzle and spray it on. I will be trying this as soon as I get an empty bottle. Remembering to rinse out the straw and nozzle after each use. Sounds like a win/win soultion to me. Let me know if you try it out before I do :)

Yes I am I could post the pics before but the written tutorial is here too.

Yes, I did. I let it dry overnight or you could iron a smaller quilt to make the process go faster.

Thank you for the heads up about Piscasa I did that last night and posted picture too but with no explanations I wish I could link the two posts :)

When the glue is dried, can you feel each glue spot? What about sewing over the glue?

Can you explain about the straw?? Do you put it on the spray bottle?

Thanks for the photos.

I just looked at the instructions on your BlogSpot - very nicely done. Thank you.

Mary

There is a straw inside the spray bottle it pokes into the noozle ( it is already in the bottle - it is the part that sucks the water up when you squeeze the trigger on the noozle) Sry if I was unclear :)

ok, i get it. thanks. i'll have to try this.

What does the dish soap do?
I had a 15 inch sq to sandwich for a test piece and used a glue stick on the backing put down the bat and then used my spray
i just smoothed the lumps with my finger worked great
Gale

Thanks so much for this tut, I really hate pinning and basting quilts, so next one I will do this way!

I have done 4 queen or king size quilts using the above method. Yes, I could feel and see the dried glue when I FMQ but if dry there was no trouble sewing, I tried to do a quick applique the other night of a star on a tree and I didn't iron it well enough and the glue did gum up my needle slightly. It has to be dry for the best results. I did let my larger quilts dry overnight and had no trouble.

Ah ha! Thanks so much for the tutorial! Now I understand. And, I'd LOVE to be able to be able to Free motion quilt from the edge. THANKS!!!

Thanks for this info. Do you remember which Turning Twenty book? There's several I know and I have about three of them. I just want to be sure I have the correct book before starting to cut. Thanks again for your help! ~~Ann~~

It was the Turning Twenty ... Again The 30 Blocks 5 x 6 setting but I didn't put any borders on it just a black binding as it was large enough already :) I know I stitch Unit B with the 2.5 x 8.5 section to the right of the 8.5 x 8.5 block instead of the left. By the time I figured out I had sewn it incorrectly I was more than 1/2 way finished Unit B so left it that way. I figured it was a scrappy quilt so it wouldn't matter :) I did 4 dark green fat quarters and 4 cranberry Fat Quarters to give it a more structured look. So glad that you like it.

I like to make my backing taunt with clips before pinning, so I'm not sure this technique would work? Or could I clip the backing to the table and put the glue on the backing and then lay down the batting?

Yes I did clamp one of my quilts as it had a couple of wrinkles and I was too lazy to iron it - the glueing process was just fine this way :)

Thanks, I'll have to give this a shot. I've not liked fusible batting or spray. I find the layers still shifted way too much. So, I'm curious to see if this would work for me.

Thank you very much for sharing. We need all the saving we can get, so we can buy MORE FABRIC.

School glue by the gallon can be found at school supply stores or office supply stores.

Thank you for this thoughtful post, so full of ideas.. it is helpful & your post motivated me..thank

This is a great tip! I wonder if it works with other battings, esp. polyester?

couldn't the glue be thinned with water, put into a spray bottle and used that way? I just thought of that. I just bought a small bottle of the stuff myself to learn how to baste with it.

JanTx: I use the spray also, and to get around the overspray issue, I bought 2 huge thin vinyl tablecloths that I cover my working surface with. I put the can a little closer to the batting when I'm at the edges to decrease the overspray. I can simply wash the tablecloths with a hose out in the yard when they get too sticky....They cost $.75 each so sometimes I just throw them out and buy replacements! They are 108 X whatever (75??) so it's plenty big using two.

I have used polyester also and it worked also - I used a bit more glue as the glue seeped into more holes in the poly vs the cotton battings.

I tried a spray bottle and didn't like how it was so hard to get it to spray, I do thin the glue a bit in the regular bottles with water. Good luck!

The last quilt I glue basted had visible dried glue spots from the front - a lot of white was in the top. When it was finished I threw it in the washer and no problems afterwards.

I do not wash my quilts when I get done with them, so not sure if this would work. I tried the glue on a wallhanging which I do not plan to wash either and there are hard spots where I had put the glue, so think that is what would happen on a quilt too. Any suggestions?

It definitely needs to be washed after using this technique.

I used this method on my last quilt, but my lines were probably twice as far apart and it still worked like a charm. Then used the glue for my binding as well. I had a few thicker glue areas, but didn't have any problems whatsoever with it gumming up my needle and once I finished it and washed it, all the glue came right out. Another thing...I don't have a ping pong table - just a 6' folding banquet-type table - and glue basted it in sections, letting it dry for about an hour in between sections. Again, not a problem. And because I basted this just before Christmas, things got busy and I folded up the quilt after I glued it and it set for about a month before I got it out to quilt it. Not a thing moved! I'm never going back to thread or pin basting!

I am giving this a try! Thanks for taking the time to do the tutorial and updates.

Thanks for the tutorial