I Wish I Could Kiss This Woman

I hate basting my quilts.

Haaaaate it.  Even with spray-basting, it's tricky to do.

So before I spray-basted my three quilts today, 

I threw myself at the mercy of the Google gods.

(I dunno.  I pictured GoogleGod as nerdy-er.)

And, lo!  I was led to Chasing Cottons, where the delightful and helpful Kristie

had posted a tutorial, which included this super idea:

Use hand weights to hold the batting in place whilst the other layers

 are being centered and smoothed!

Sooo much easier and better!

I used to use both masking tape and  unwilling children,

and neither of them was satisfactory:

the tape kept popping up, and the kids kept trying to wander off.

Hey, you kids!  Get back here!  I still have two more quilts to do!

So head on over there to see her full tutorial;

if you're a quilter, you won't be sorry!