Friday, August 5, 2011
Basting Away in the Summer Time
My dinner room table makes for a wonderful workbench for this project. I extend the table to hold the two long pieces of wood that the quilt top and bottom gets wrapped around; the Sharon Schamber method. I find that I can sit for a couple of hours basting while watching tv. For a large quilt, like the one I'm working on now, the fabric is laid out on my kitchen floor where I roll the fabrics onto the boards. Once the fabrics are on the boards, I then move the project over to the dinning room table to do the basting. I prefer this method over pinning or spray basting. It does take a bit more time to do this than the spray basting, but I like the result much better. Plus, it is healthier for me than inhaling all the chemicals.
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I also use my dining room table for basting, but, I don't pin the quilt to the boards until after the quilt is basted. Love that quilt.
ReplyDeletedefinitely growing on me! You are amazing!
ReplyDeleteCheryl, I don't do any pinning the quilt to the boards. I just roll the fabric around the boards to make it easier to work with the fabric on the table.
ReplyDeleteKT, I think the quilting will set it off. I did a little test fabric that looks very nice.
my dining room table is devoted to sewing machine repair! every time I walk through the room I thank my lucky stars that I married the man I did, who never says one word about the mess!
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