how to baste your quilt (sustainably)

Welcome to my series of ‘how to finish your quilt’ videos.

If you’re a beginner quilter these are perfect for you.

If you’re a more experienced quilter, heck you know there’s always some new trick or tip to learn, so come join me…

the steps to finishing your quilt

In this series I’ll be covering the steps on finishing a quilt including, how to:

Baste your quilt
Quilt your quilt
Make your binding
Attach your binding
Label your quilt!

why finishing your quilt is (sometimes) hard

Back when I first started quilting, I was totally absorbed by it. I’d just had a newborn baby, so my sleep cycles were crazy, and I’d be up all night quilting, snatching any time I could while my baby was asleep

I LOVED the fast buzz of my machine, whooshing through the fabric, piecing everything left and right, hitting those points. Bliss!

But then things would come to a screeching halt. I had done all this hard work, and now it was time to ‘finish my quilt’.

(crickets🦗🦗🦗)

Well, what exactly was I supposed to do?

The instructions just said, “make a sandwich, baste, quilt ‘as desired’ and bind”.

I wasn’t hungry, so I didn’t make a sandwich.

I sure as heck wasn’t going to start roasting something in the oven at midnight just so I could baste it.

And ‘as desired’ – I didn’t know what I wanted!

Ever had that feeling when going through a set of instructions where all of a sudden the rug is whipped out from underneath you and you’re like wait, What??