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Step 3.
Gripping the middle roller with your hands, roll all
but approximately 18” of the backing fabric onto
the middle roller. It may help to have two people
to roll this on large quilts. Make sure there are no
wrinkles in the backing fabric as you roll, and
make sure the fabric is not being stretched as
you roll.
Now you will be looking at most of the backing
fabric rolled onto the middle roller, and the other
edge of the backing fabric hanging down off the
roller.
Take this second edge of backing fabric and pin it
to the leader on the rear roller, using the same
method that you used on the first roller. (
See Fig.
3)
Place a few pins, make sure that the tension
is even all along the length of the roller, and fill in
the rest of the pins.
Note that the leader on the rear roller should
roll off of the bottom of the roller and be
pulled towards you, while the middle roller
leader rolls off the top and is pulled away
from you.
Now your backing fabric is attached to the frame.
See Fig. 4
Step 4.
Next you will attach your batting and quilt top.
The batting and quilt top are attached at the
same time.
First, spread your batting out across the frame
with the edge parallel to the front roller as you did
with your backing fabric.
See Fig. 5
It is important at this step to make sure your bat-
ting does not have any wrinkles or is not being
pulled or stretched anywhere.
Fig. 3
Pin backing to leader on rear roller.
Fig. 4
Backing attached to middle and rear roller.
Fig. 5
Batting spread out over rollers.
