I make a number of raw edge applique quilts.  Although the ‘raw edge’ concept is not for everyone, I prefer it and LOVE how a raw edged quilt looks after a few washings.  A few years ago, I went to my local quilt store and found a well-known and trusted brand of temporary spray adhesive to use, to help keep the applique template pieces in place so I could sew them to the background blocks.  Since I had never used this type of product before, I suppose I was happy to have found it.

Last year’s BOMquilts.com “Pendleton Inspired” quilt was also a raw edge applique quilt (although the instructions and templates could have used different applique techniques).  Just as I was finishing up the final blocks, I ran out of spray adhesive.  And since we live 45 minutes from a quilt shop, I had to do without or find something else.  And of course, all of this happened during the Christmas holiday, when I had a million other things that needed to be done!

On one of my Christmas buying adventures (I do NOT shop, I do my research online and then go and BUY), I had to go to a craft store to buy something I needed.  Since I was there, I asked about a spray on adhesive.  They only had one brand of adhesive and it was not the brand I had purchased at the quilt shop.  But since I physically was done with the holiday crowds, I picked it up and bought it…figuring it would either work or not and that it was better than nothing.

This is what I purchased:

I have absolutely no clue whether it is a good brand or not, but I do have to tell you it was TEN times better than the higher priced (and smaller can) that I had previously purchased.  And when I was done, my hands were not sticky, as they were from the previous adhesive.

Sometimes, taking a leap of faith on a product turns out to be a great thing!