How do you baste your quilts?

Ricky: I baste with water-soluble thread.

Penny: Even the quilts you'll machine quilt? You still baste with thread?

Ricky: I do, but I baste them with water-soluble thread. When I wet my quilts to get rid of all that water-soluble thread, I don't have to pick out any basting.

I don't have to worry about breaking any threads. I don't have to worry about missing a thread if I'm at a quilt show and saying, "Oh, my gosh. There's a basting thread still hanging on my quilt." It dissolves and goes away.

I am starting to use KK 2000 and 505 spray bastings more often. I don't use that as my exclusive basting, unless it's a small quilt. If it's a big quilt, 90-inch square, I probably will still do some thread basting, but there might be a little bit of spray in there as well just to keep things stuck and snug, so I don't get puckers.

Happy Quilting!

Penny Halgren

TheQuiltingCoach