Quote Originally Posted by liketoquilt View Post
Thank you all so much for responding to my plea for help! I bought the Kwip Klip yesterday, and will try that method on this quilt as I already bought more safety pins.
When I work on my next quilt, I would like to try the "Herringbone Stitch" method of quilting and using the trim boards for help. I liked how the lady in the video said she used to have to get her husband to help her pin, before she came up with her new method) and that was causing marriage problems! And I bet HE came up with the trim boards (she said he got them for her at the beginning of the video)...Ha!
It looks like a huge improvement as far as less backbreaking, with her method.
You MSQC forum ladies are the greatest! :-)
The first time I used her method to baste a quilt my back was thanking me over and over and over. I also didn't have any weird puckers in my backing AND no wings on the edges of the quilts where tape would have been. I tell everyone about it now!

Because the trim boards were so long they wouldn't fit in my car easily, I had them cut into four foot sections and attached two of them together with a hinge so I could fold them and put them away. I haven't had to baste a quilt larger than 8 feet yet at home and probably never would now that I have a longarm machine I can rent out.

Put painters tape on the ends of the trim boards so they don't snag your fabric.