{"id":2388,"date":"2019-11-13T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:22:08","slug":"easy-quilt-basting-with-pool-noodles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/easy-quilt-basting-with-pool-noodles\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Quilt Basting with Pool Noodles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I know I said I love all parts of the quilting process. I lied. I hate basting. I have a bunch of quilt tops that are waiting to be quilted, not because I don’t know how I want to quilt them (although that might be true as well) but because I simply hate basting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Ready to be quilted in a fraction of the time of regular basting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have a 16″ long arm (HQ Simply Sixteen) which has a small table which you clamp the quilt to, but it still needs to be basted. I have dreamed about getting a larger long arm, with a full large table just so that I don’t need to baste, but that just isn’t in the cards right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spray baste my quilts. I used to pin paste them, but that really doesn’t work with the clamps. Besides, I don’t have the patience for pin basting anyway. Ain’t nobody’s got time for that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The underside of my dining room table is full of masking tape from the quilts that I’ve basted before I found this new method. (I try to take it off after each quilt, but I always miss a piece here and there.) My masking tape days are now over!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a video from Sabina on how she uses the pool noodles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pzx4dQqfkO4\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I basically do the same thing that she does, but instead of pinning, I spray the layers individually and carefully roll out my quilt layers onto the sprayed areas. I do section by section. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I let the quilt fall towards the floor and make sure that I pull each layer tight. I lean into the table with my hip to make sure to keep tension as I roll. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how it goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Roll the back out a bit<\/li>
  2. Spray the back with adhesive <\/li>
  3. Roll the batting out as far as the back was sprayed<\/li>
  4. Spray the batting with adhesive <\/li>
  5. Roll out the quilt top to cover where the batting was sprayed<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    During each roll-out, I make sure to keep things taut and to spread the layers out from the bottom center to the sides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Just Starting Out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Going….<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Going…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Done!!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    This method takes a fraction of time and eliminates the frustration and tears from the old way that I used to do it. I am so so happy that I found it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I know I said I love all parts of the quilting process. I lied. I hate basting. I have a bunch of quilt tops that are waiting to be quilted, not because I don’t know how I want to quilt them (although that might be true as well) but because I simply hate basting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning-to-quilt","category-tips-and-tricks"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Pool-Noodle-Basting-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltisrael.com\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}