I very carefully laid out, sandwiched and pinned a baby quilt last week. I usually do this on the carpet, pegging the backing to the carpet with open safety pins. Only problem? I had a sheet under the quilt. Yep, you see where this is going--pinned through the sheet and had to to undo and redo every single one of the pins. That'll teach me to do things when I'm sleep-deprived...
Monique in TX
Oops! We've all done silly things -- especially when sleep-deprived. I'm glad it wasn't more serious.
BTDT with a backing that was directional - and so was the top - but they went in different directions! Oops. I looked at it as unintentional upper arm exercises!
Join the club, Alice. ;)
Oh yeah, did that very thing. Then I learned to keep a smallish cutting board glued to a long ruler. I slide that under the quilt and move it around as I need to pin. I know..... it's possible that the motion could compromise the quilt. Maybe. But I'm usually doing quilts no larger than lap quilts and so far no probs.
Sunny
But if the backing was directional, as was the top, then if you put the back on the opposite way, it is totally cool because you can turn down the quilt and have the backing show in the right direction, or vice versa, right?
Dannielle
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