There are MANY binding clips on Amazon. I first bought a set of ‘extra-large’ clips from one company that came in colors, but they were not extra-large, just large. The 2″ mentioned was the length of the clips, not the width of the spine. The spine was only 1″ wide (see below photo).
The extra-large ones from Ufmarine are large enough to fit on a plastic folding table, and with 18 I have plenty to go around the table, but I usually just use 8- 3 each on the long sides and 1 each on the short. If it is an extra wide table, I would use 2 on the sides.
Likes-
They fit on the plastic folding tables, as well as the tables at my work, which were a smaller width top.
Easy to take off and put on.
Dislikes-
I did run into a few old plastic tables that had a wide lip on the rims and they did not fit on those. Plus a few tables at work that had a similar lip.
For the newer tables, it was a tight fit sometimes when I had three layers- backing, batting, and top. As long as I was able to get most of the clip on it was okay and they held well.
With a thick table they sometimes popped off and I had to hunt for them. Not often, but be aware of the possibility.
I don’t have a link- I wrote this almost 5 years ago so I am sure it is bad. I don’t get any money posting this. I got the mister off of Amazon. It is an oil sprayer found in the cooking section.
If you don’t choose this particular mister, look through them to make sure you get the pump mechanism rather than just the little tube. The pump is what makes it a single press rather than wearing out my finger pressing the top to spray it. But the mister does work for a single press- you get a LONG spray of glue with that one press. I make queen size tops and could get a good four foot x table size done in one spray, then another 10 pumps and spray the other side of the quilt.
I liked that this was a 2 pack and I even purchased another pack later on.
My recipe is one borrowed and changed from Slightly Off Quilter (her YouTube and websites are no long running). I originally used an empty ribbed water bottle (like she did) at first to mix my glue basting but after one or two fills it started to become uneven and wouldn’t sit right. I eventually changed to a flavored water bottle instead with the harder plastic and I’ve used that ever since.
The other ingredient is Elmers glue. I bought it by the gallon from Amazon but I never even opened the second gallon yet- it takes that long to finish.
The pluses with this Elmers is:
1- it washes out and
2- if you don’t quilt it right away it doesn’t attract insects like the other sprays do. I once had one of mine sit for three months no problem.
Ratio-
Add glue to the bottle up to the bottom of the 2nd rib. Add water up to the top of the ribs where the bottle starts to curve to the neck. Shake, shake, shake that baby like a bag of shake n’ bake chicken. Yes, that means I’m old… LOL.
She then topped it off to the top of the bottle with more glue. I found that too thick for the mister and only added half that amount (or less if any) and filled the rest with water- then shake, shake, shake again. Every time you go to fill the mister, shake the bottle good. Every time you use the mister shake that up, too.
In the end I figured it was close to a 1:10 recipe of glue to water.
I found that if I used less glue and added more water it made it more runny and I got the same results she did- a nice misty spray.
A difference could also have been the ambient temperature was colder than hers, me being in Alaska at the time. The big thing is to play around with it to find the consistency best for you.
Likes-
Pump 10 or so times and you get a long spray- LOVED IT!
Two sprays per quilt section, and four per quilt in that row before moving to the next section. I was able to put my quilts on two large 8 ft tables. I used binder clips when I could to pull the back and batting taut but not excessively so.
The pump makes the mixture go a long way. With the first water bottle I did Dive On In, the 38″ x 38″ baby tester, another 45″ x 45″ baby quilt, and Sawyer (lap size). I still had enough left over to do half of a queen quilt. That was a lot of quilts for one 16 oz bottle of glue and water!
Dislikes-
It does get sticky with the pumping and then you leave it to dry. However, with it being diluted, it is easy to break and pump again the next time you need it.
When you go to add more glue in, the hole is not very big, so you can dribble on the sides easily. I would suggest getting a funnel, however you need to be able to see inside to measure half way, and that is difficult to do with a funnel in the way. I fill in the sink if I can and peek often.
When you open to fill, you really don’t have a place to put the pump part while filling. If I don’t fill it in a sink I upturn the lid and place the pump in the hole (which doesn’t help it to NOT get sticky).
The screw top can be hard to get off sometimes as it will stick. However, the mister that I use for my oil is also sticky to get off, so I think that maybe the contents are ‘vacuumed shut’ with that final push to close the pump to the body, even though you are to ‘bleed’ the pressure by unscrewing the top enough to let the pressure out.
Once, I left the pump in my car while I was at work, and it was in the low 40’s, high 30’s. The pump would not work at all. I had to run hot water over it to warm the bottle up and after that it worked fine.
