Great Basics 6: Backing & Basting
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This is the sixth video tutorial of the Great Basics quilt. Look for the other videos Nancy did in this series that include choosing fabric, folding fabric, on-point settings, and borders. The book, Great Basics, has instructions for crib and twin size quilts. You can sew along with Nancy as she makes the crib size.
Nancy is in her studio for more room to work on the quilt. She shows some color options she has made. Kits are available for a crib or a twin size quilt in the blue or the pink variations (queen size is not available) at www.firesidequ.... The quilt top is done and the borders are on so now it is time to do the backing and basting. The backing and batting should be at least 3 inches larger than the quilt top. The extra backing and batting will help later when you are machine quilting.
Nancy chooses a small busy print for the backing. It doesn't have to match the quilt top. The busy print is perfect if you are a beginner quilter because it hides any mistakes you might make. The color of thread used for the machine quilting may also be a factor when choosing the backing fabric. Check out the clearance shelf at a local fabric store to find backing fabric at a good price.
The backing fabric may need to be pieced together. Sew the selvage edges together with a one inch seam allowance which will help to keep it straight. Use a scissor and put a nip at the top about half an inch from the seam and tear. Tearing the fabric will also keep it straight. Next press the entire backing with some spray sizing. Use a mister if you are using Mary Ellen's Spray Sizing to help mist the whole back of the quilt. Magic or Niagara sizing from your grocery store is also an affordable option. The spray sizing will make the backing a little stiffer and help with machine quilting. Press the seam open and iron out the creases. Take some time to press the entire backing going along the length of grain. Nancy does the spray sizing and pressing two separate times. If you are able to afford a wool mat, it is a great option to help with pressing and drying time.
Fold your backing into quarters; right sides up. Unfold it to see the wrong side. The creases in the fabric from being folded in quarters helps to find the center. Pin or tape down the backing. Take 505 Basting Spray (Odif 505 Temporary Adhesive for Fabric) and spray on the backing fabric.
Fold the batting in quarters just like the backing fabric. Match up the creases to the backing fabric and smooth it out. Nancy does just the center first. Spray adhesive on the batting. Take the quilt top, fold in quarters, wrong side out. Place on top of the batting, matching the creases and center. Keep the straight lines of the quilt as straight as possible by working with the borders.
Nancy will baste the center of quilt with pins. Pin about a hand's width apart. Don't put the pins in the areas where there will be straight stitching when the quilt is machine quilted. Use a seam ripper to close the pins after placing them on the quilt. Continue adding pins to the quilt top basting the top and bottom portions of the quilt. Keep the borders as straight as possible.
Next time Nancy will show how to machine quilt the Great Basics quilt.
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Wow!!! I taught myself to quilt during covid. I REALLY WISH I had found your videos before So so VERY HELPFUL!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Awesomeness at its best ❤❤❤❤❤
Great videos, from Canada
The pin case is a winner.
Thank you so much for these very informative, detailed videos on how to quilt. Great instruction!
Glad it was helpful!
Your safety pin storage box and recommendation to store pins open is brilliant. I have stored mine in a mason jar closed.
Hello from Alberta, Canada!! What I love, love LOVE about your videos is that you give detailed reasons why you do things, not "just because" and your reasons make sense! I am learning so much, my brain is hurting. And that is a very good thing. 😃
Thank you so much!
As always awesome
Thanks again!
Love the idea of ripping the selvage off. Always learn something new with your tutorials. Thanks Nancy!
You are an excellent teacher! I have struggled with this for years. Now I can hardly wait to do it the easy, right way!
Nancy your pinning technique is genius. I have never thought about not pinning the first quilting lines but it makes so much sense! Thanks heaps for all your great tips you have helped me so much.
Glad it was helpful!
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Those are great tips you gave us on how to assemble the backing, basting, and the top of the quilt together so you can begin sewing them together. I am a beginner and have never made a quilt before and is about to use my new sewing machine to put together the blocks my grandmother made decades before and never got to complete the quilt she was working on. The information you have given us will help me so much and I shall remember it and thanks so much.
You are so welcome!
I am so going to try the side setting triangles in a striped fabric! Love it! This was such a great episode. Thanks for your time.
You are so welcome!
I stopped using thr 505 for a while because of the expense. Until I watched this video it didn't occur to me to use a light coating and then pin it. This is why I like to watch how you and others do things.
Glad it helped :)
Great hints!
thank you for the tip on closing the pins, fantastic
You’re welcome 😊
Hi Nancy from South Australia 🇦🇺
I prop my phone on the pegs of my pegboard in front of my home made pressing board and I watch yours and other RUclips videos as I do my pressing. I don’t watch tv anymore. I wish Blueprint wasn’t closing. That can be so inspiring to to watch quilting tutorials!
What? You watch other RUclips videos? 😂 LOL Thank you for watching! Love my subscribers! ❤️
What a beautiful large wool pressing mat. Love this series! Thank you Nancy
You are so welcome!
Thank you. This was very instructional. Especially for beginners like me.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I will use it for my 92” square quilt top! ❤️
“Oh, that will quilt out!” 😅 That’s the grace I give all of my quilts!😝
Thank you so much Nancy. 😊
You are so welcome
I lay a dressmaking cardboard taped to my dining table to lay out my quilt. I then tape and pin without worrying about destroying the table. Like you I do centre, left right. So far so good. Thanks for the teaching, it reenforces my technique as well as getting extra help.😀👏
I love Star Trek reruns too!
Perfect tutorial, love all your tips.
Nancy, thank you for a really great tutorial, I learned so much from this. I purchased the Great Basics ebook last week. As I live in Ireland the digital version makes it possible to be able to purchase the book which would be out of the question due to the very high postage rates for international shipping. I really enjoy your videos and your sense of humour - like having a nice friend drop by. Kindest regards🧵🧵🧵
This video series is so good, love your teaching technique, thanks for sharing 👍❤️😊
Thanks so much 😊
I've been using a scoring tool which has the little ball on the end; it works much like your seam ripper, but has no sharp point!
I used to buy the magic sizing spray at Dollar Tree or Dollar General years ago. You can't find it at any stores. I ordered just a couple of weeks ago on amazon or ebay.
I get it at the grocery store also
Great tips!
I used to have a Quik Klip to close my safety pins, lost it. Now I use a small crochet hook.
Thanks
Oh my goodness!! A Star Trek Sister 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
YEA! I am just getting to watch the Discovery series now - love it!
If you match your bobbin thread to the backing of your quilt and your top thread to the quilt top you wont have to worry about the thread matching both sides and you wont be able to see the bobbin thread on the quilt top and vise versa. I dont have very many tips to share but thats one of them.
PS i wish i could share the pattern i made using the log cabin block. I dont think ive ever seen it used the way i did. I guess i coild put a picture of it on my tiny private channel and make that picture public. Ill see if i can figure it out
The last time I tore the fabric to get a straight edge, it continued to ravel. What can help eliminate the raveling?
Carol Latham try Stop Fray.
Hi Carol, Remember i am talking about tearing the length of grain so that makes a difference and it most fabrics might pull out 2 additional threads but then no more but I guess it could depend on the type and quality of the fabric you are using?
Thank you for all of your videos. I love them. I’m wondering how you ensure the backing is square? I followed your good idea to piece my backing and tried to fold it into quarters and then match the folds but when I started to quilt in the ditch on the front, the lines were not at all square on the back. Any advice for me?
Hi Wendy, I think my question is - did you use a backing print that was striped or plaid? That will always make it almost impossible to be straight :() I don't know that i have ever successfully used a stripe or plaid on a backing and made it look really good. If you are not worried about the design but just that it's straight of grain, don't worry about it - it is straight enough :) - Nancy
Thanks, I used large blocks but added sashing between them so I think you're right - probably enough lines and angles to shoot myself in the foot! Thanks again Nancy.
Hi Nancy, I love the wool mat you are using. Where did you get it. I have one that I use for the blocks, but, I would really like to get the big one like you have. Thank you
Jackie Kristoff
Hi Jackie, the one on my big board I purchased from www.smithowensew.com. He doesn’t it on the site do send him an email 😀
@@QuiltingWithNancy Awesome thank you
You can make starch/sizing at home with cornstarch and water. Does the cornstarch have sugar in it?
Yes cornstarch is sugar, I have heard of one they make with vodka but I don't have the time to make sizing :)
When I discovered 505 basting spray, I was thought to iron afterwards to "set" the adhesive. I've never used pins since. My question is, why do you choose to still use pins with the spray?
Hi Nannett, yes you can iron and i will do that to kind of reactivate the adhesive if i have been away from the quilt for a bit. If i am quilting a small quilt i don't always use pins but on larger quilts i need to be positive that nothing is shifting so i use pins also.
OnPoint-TV and Quilting with Nancy thank you Nancy for your explanation. It certainly makes a lot of sense. Thank you for all you do!
I'm just like you when it comes to bugs! And worms!!! I have a question. What is the reasoning behind washing a newly quilted quilt?
Bugs - yucky!! :) - I wash the quilts before i give them away because I have cats and that means there will be cat hair on the quilt and I just don't think that's nice.
Hi Nancy, “Learning to Quilt” will the book be available as an E book? Many thanks
I have two books. The Learning to Quilt ebook is available already. The Great Basics ebook is coming soon. Keep a lookout for it on our website: www.onpoint-tv.com/product-category/patternsandbooks/
What is your favorite batting? Cotton/bamboo, wool, cotton poly blend ?
I like them all :) - I never use a polyester but like the cotton/ploy blends, love the bamboo just pricey and wool is my absolute favorite for bed quilts - Nancy
I have never heard of doing both spray and pin basting. I thought it was spray or pin baste.
If it's a small quilt i won't always pin but if it's 30" or more i always use both.
I normally added the extra pins to the outside borders along with spray basting. Just as a reminder to help me not catch backing in the quilting.
That bugger will flip under. .and I imagine everyone has done it!
And I had never sized my backing! I will now!
Original 1960's Captain Kirk, Spock, and Bones Star Trek?
All 😀. Sometime all in chronological order!