Thank you! This will be so much better!

With very dodgy knees and in need of a knee replacement this might be the answer! Thanks!

Works for me too. Thanks

This is the same technique that Master Quilter Sharon Schamber uses, except she actually hand bastes her quilts...I tried to attached the YouTube link, but it came up as an error... Google Sharon Schamber Basting if you want to watch the video...I use a multi-purpose table with bed risers under the legs to raise it up so I don't have to bend over too much...the bed risers come in a couple of different heights so you can pick one that is right for you...I think they are a life saver...I am tall, so I have the tallest ones...I think they are about 8" tall...

Oh, my knees will like this technique.

This is interesting, but I don't quilt.I am a want to be Just the size intimates me. Did you go to the Atlanta Sewing and Quilt Expo at Gwinnett Center March 13,14 ,and 15th? I went with a quilting friend on Thursday and she wore me out. She never sat down to rest and when I suggested we stop and watch a demo class, she said "I'll just keep walking". So I stayed with her ,as I knew with the size of the place and number of people and no cell phone reception, I would never find her. I think I will start calling her the "Road Runner". We did have fun! Kay

Thankyou this will be most helpful.

Excellent idea! Thanks.

I will be using this method when I get there. Thank you

Any info to make things easier,not so hard on the body.You know I recently posted,I got my retired sister into quilting.She is going at it full speed and I am so proud of her,it makes me want to do some!-lol-I need an easy way to cut my fabric pieces,b/c I tend to want to be 'over' the fabric while cutting,and then I can't do long,b/c of my back.I don't want to purchase the pre-cut packs with all the fabric I already have.Any advice how to cut comfortably?-Toogie

Thank you, this was very helpful!

Great idea. I have a small quilt to do for one of my GS's birthday on april 26. This is going to make it so much easier. Thanks Jerrilyn :)

I'm super happy to have found this and doubly so if it helps any of you, Cuties!

wow this makes it look so easy I know how I will be doing my next quilt...thanks heaps...soozie

Wow! Thanks for sharing this technique. This really is a great idea and I'll try it on my next quilt. Bed quilts are always the hardest to baste due to their size and I invariable get a wrinkle or two....

Thank You will have a go on quilt i'm making

I have done this, I purchase a John Flynn frame, ( which I never have used) but it uses the same idea , this technique works great for basing.

this is really nifty!! though i do have a large quilter frame and machine,somwtimes it is just too much work to get all 3 pieces pinned or zipped to my headers. also at my weekly meetings someone made pvc tube risers for the banquet tables we use for cutting or basting. another inexpensive riser. love this new idea. thanks, lynne

Did you see on You Tube how they pin the backing to the wall ?!!!,spray it with 505 basting spray,then place the batting,smooth it out.Spray again with 505 and smooth out your top! She has her wall,covered on the outside edge of quilt with newspaper,so the spray doesn't get on the wall. Works well,it seems,however-First off who has a wall this size and wants to tack or pin it? I could do this in my hallway,it's real wide and probally long enough,between doorways,but there is still the matter of tacking it. I wish I could remember the link,whatever but was You Tube. She then quilted it, with no pinning at all, on her regular sewing machine,not one like aussiequilter has.-........The lite bulb just went on! I diagnosed myself,some one please tell dennis! I am just green with envy of aussiequilters quilting frame!!!!!-LOL

Left you a message on this post!!

Too many days have gone by and I have so much going on, I don't remember. If I remember , I will let you know. Thanks for answering. It is getting cold tonight. Kay

Thanks, what a good tip

Thank YOU.

Thank you for putting this link on here, just checked it out and it looks like a great way to baste. I also can not get down on the floor and baste my quilts as a result of brain surgery. Again thanks a million for finding and posting this. Juanita

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UoUzK19Vww&NR=1
I had the name wrong when I answered Toogie but this is a video of the "wall" method using 505 spray. I am intrigued by both of these method. Thank you.

Thanks I will give this a try. I love to quilt but I dread the basting.

omgosh!! I love this idea! I , too, am having "difficulty" crawling around on my hands and knees like I used to a "few" years ago. lol. Thank you for posting this!!! *Flowers to everybody*

So the lovely simple ideas are always best. Thank you. This same kind of idea is how the 'old' ladies used to iron the long table-cloths and the church linen. They rolled it around a big cardboard roll (like the inside of a toilet roll, only really large). as they ironed, then got to the church and unrolled it on the Altar.

wow a very creative way to do this. Please share with us if you use this idea & how well it works. ~hugs~

I haven't done one in a long time (well, just a few very small ones), but when I was young, I helped baste a wool quilt together. A lady my mom knew had a quilting frame and there were 4 boards and it rolled to centre - can't remember what it rested on in the middle - and as you went around you unrolled it and kept going until it was finished. The wool was basted between cotton ticking(I think that was what it was called) and then it was put into whatever you were using for the outside of the quilt.
Anyone else remember this?