Basting with thread
1. Prepare your needles with a long length of threadabout 18” to 24” long.
2. I have found using curved needles made for tieing quilts are very useful as the tip of the needle dips into the layers and curves back out again. It saves your fingers underneath the quilt from getting pricked so often as you stitch the length and width of your quilt.
3. You will be stitching a grid across the quilt with stitching lines 8” to 12” apart. The lines don’t need to be closer because you will be using a quilting frame to hand quilt. Start at the center edge of one side and baste with long stitches to the other side.
Add the second line the length of the quilt. Then fill in the grid across the width and length every 8” to 12” according to the size of your quilt.
4. Remove the safety pins from the quilt. You are ready now to handquilt your quilt.
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