But I don't have anything to tie the quilt down.
And honestly, I don't care a whole lot if I have to seam rip the layers apart. I may hate the idea and it may be tedious, but I really don't care a whole lot...if it will help get my friend's belated birthday present done sometime in this century. Besides, most of the stitches aren't tiny (except in the places where the machine didn't want to pull it through so well) so it'll be easy to seam rip.