Thursday, June 12, 2014

A Sticky Situation

 I love spray adhesive for basting quilts.


 It probably goes against everything I believe in as a Save the Earth type of person but I still love it.


 With just a few pins stuck in Daddio's rug, you can pull those layers tight as a drum with it.


 I do take precautions since I was working inside the house. I love the stuff but I don't want it lining my lungs.


 I still pin the top but I can put the pins further apart and still feel that it is all where it should be as it goes through the long quilting process.


 I was feeling pretty pleased with the whole thing until I went to trim it up and discovered I had been off by a fraction on an inch on one corner of the backing.

It was no fun peeling the layers apart so I could make the repair but I still love that spray stuff. It's da bomb, quite literally.
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  1. Delighted HandsJune 12, 2014 at 9:25 AM

    I use that spray also for my machine embroidery; it is great stuff! I spray basted a small quilt years ago and then didn't get to it right away--when I pulled it out of the pile years later-it was still layered perfectly and able to be quilted! (Don't wait that long to get this quilt under the needle! lol)

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  2. WanderingcatstudioJune 12, 2014 at 10:25 AM

    I'm so doing that with my next quilt... when I finally get around to making it!

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