Basting Day!

I spent today basting my baby quilt and helping Mom baste her big thick one. She is using high loft batting for the first time, and has decided this quilt is going to be too hot and heavy for her needs. She will be sending it to my brother who lives in the mountains. He loves a super warm quilt. I hope he enjoys it because it is going to be a real battle for her to quilt it on her machine.

Sadly, both of our basting guns shot their last tacks during the big quilt basting. I had to run out for two new guns so we could complete the big quilt and move on to my little one.

Tomorrow I will have to plot out my quilting pattern. I want to use a wave rather than straight line stitching. Debra in VA See my quilts at

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Debra
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When I tried high-loft batting, I had a pleat and tuck problem on the back of the quilt. Warn Mom that additional basting may be helpful. Finally, I decided that nobody would die if the quilt had some tucks. The loft may not have been the problem, could have been the texture of the surface, I don't know. Polly

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Polly Esther

How about tieing it? If the pattern is too pronounced to tie, I have tacked it with the zig zag on my SM. That works great as a "tie" and is less intrusive then yarn.

I tried to machine quilt the high loft once and grumbled the whole time I was taking out the stitching because I didn't like it. Maybe you will do better.

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Boca Jan

Good luck with the thicker batting! DH is my assistant baster, and we have a date tomorrow morning to baste 2 quilt-tops. I have my huge navy background pieced and appliquéd top, and I am using black batting, but intend to spray baste it, with pins on the edges. The smaller scrap quilt will be pin basted.

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Susan Torrens

I've always used high loft which is why I don't machine quilt. I'm not fond of the look of yarn(although I like it when I see it on old-fashioned quilts on tv), I've used embroidery floss (all six strands) and I've used crochet cotton. The floss becomes part of the "look", but the crochet cotton is less intrusive if that is the look desired.

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Phyllis Nilsson

The "International Stitch" is also a less intrusive way of tying a quilt as there aren't any visible ties. You come up through the top with your needle, take a backstitch through all the layers, come up to the top again and then another backstitch but this one goes just into the batting. Travel a couple inches through the batting and come out the top to start again. You just have a visible stitch on the top and back of the quilt.

Maybe these directions will help:

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marcella

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Marcella Peek

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