things different ways if there's something that I do that you can help me
with leave it in the comments down below. My backing isn't quite wide enough for
this quilt now you are supposed to have at least two inches hanging off each
side and I haven't quite got that but I'm going to work with it because I
don't want to cut this backing in half and add a little bit of section right
down the middle because that's what you would have to do in order to gain them
side bits to be a little bit wider notice that these end sections here they
are quite a lot longer and this is kind of what you want around your whole quilt
like so look at that look how much allowance I have got rather than at the
sides so if you were doing this make sure that your backing is at least two
or three inches longer than your actual quilt top this is the part where your
hardwood flooring comes in really handy because I'm going to use painters tape
and I'll just stick it to the hardwood flooring. Painters tape is perfect
because it is not as sticky as obviously duct tape don't put duct tape to your
floor because you're going to rip right off that paint on your floor so using
painters tape is slightly sticky and it will hold that quilt backing in
place for you. So now is the time to iron them creases out the back of your quilt
so these are creases from when they were on the bolt and obviously you are going
to get creases into it's going to be inevitable but don't worry about the
little tiny creases. These I have got some quite harsh creases, that I do have
to iron out. The wrinkles are out and I now have my painters tape attached to my
hardwood your quilt top needs to be face down so you've got the wrong side
facing up you created a sandwich so remember that the pretty side needs to
be facing down so you're looking at not the printed side. So now I have laid my
batting to the backing and as you can see it's a really quite large I would
recommend doing a small quilt first this one is a lot more manageable than
trying to do a king-size you may need two people for this part
if your quilt was bigger. So we're going to cut this quilt batting down to the
size of just a little bit larger than the backing this is where I've created a
little bit of an issue for myself because I didn't have that width on my
quilt I highly recommend that you have at least a three inch overhang
because when you put any quilt top on you want to make sure that you're
getting your backing and your batting and the top enough coverage so what I've
done I just gathered my quilt top up a little bit and I'm just going to lay it
down here
now you're just going to go around and you're just going to a smooth the quilt top out and
you're just going to check by lifting up quilt batting that you have
everything on the underside here and you just go to check all the way around and
at this point you really don't need to spray baste it's a very small quilt so
you don't really need any glue because it's going to be enough friction holding
this top in place for the time being for the next stage I use these safety pins
and these are quilters safety pins as you see they are slightly bent so
you can get into your quilt batting top a lot more easily trust me
I love the dollar store and everything but cheap safety pins are really ..... I'm just
going to say it crap and I would highly recommend that you get these now what
you're going to do guys is you're going to go from the center of your quilt it doesn't have
to be dead center you're going to go from the center of your quilt and you're
going to pin and grip everybody into place
like so now i'm probably going to do like every other block just because once you start
moving the quilt around you don't want it to be moving on you so I'm just going to
grip every other block. You're better off over pinning then under pin it in my opinion
Here we go it's all pinned down. You could roll this into a ball if you wanted I don't
recommend it but I'm just showing you as an example that it's not going to affect
anything as you can see I've laid it back flat again and nothing has moved
I'm just going to turn it around I really hope you've enjoyed watching
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