POLL: What do you use to baste your quilts (other than spray basting).

I use the bent safety pins

ok I belong to PatternReview.com and there is a large community of quilters there -- some like spray basting, alot of the professional's do not!

I think you can read through this thread without the free joining, it's a LONG posting but a Professional Quitlmaker and Teacher has posted SO many great idea's I'd fill up several threads with them, so here's the post you can read... for everyone who's interested - She begins by talking about Walking Feet, various types of Batting, the Pins she likes for basting (she does NOT like the spray basting but is a Pro, not home sewer like many of us hehhe)... Hope this helps!

http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-...asses/board.pl

Hope that link works hmm

argh well that takes you to the Forums main page -- Scroll down to Quilting Forum -- Then look for the Large Walking Foot rant :-) In there about page 3 the Professional Quilter begins to help out :-)

Debbie

I bought some of the curved safety pins recently because my hands were always covered in puncture holes from pins! I've just put a small quilt sandwich together with them and they were really easy to use. £10 for 75 here in England which I thought was expensive even for our prices.

Bent safety pins here.

I use Spray N Baste. I buy it at JoAnn's with a coupon. It is normally $14.99 and I usually use a 50% off coupon. I started buying this stuff for my embroidery projects before I ever got into quilting. It does not gum up my needle at all and I like that it is temporary so I feel comfortable that it will wash out.

Curved safety pins when I hand quilt. Spray baste for small quilts that I can machine quilt. I use the Dritz with no problem. 505 isn't readily available to me.

I use a basting gun to hold my layers together, especially if it is a large quilt. Lately, I've been using the basting spray for my smaller projects, so I can machine quilt on them. Before the basting gun, I used regular thread and needle, and basted my quilt that way.

I'm with lilmouse, I use bent safety pins and a Kwik clip, sure saves my thumbs! I guess old school for me.