I have a lap board, the kind with the bean bag bottom and plastic top. Love it for any kind of craft I'm working on and it stays put. Have a lap frame for working on small quilt projects and a lap frame for my cross stitch projects. Egads, I could live in my chair with a lap board for everything. Love that your husbands are interested enough to make things, mine protests when I take up a new project but he is always there with support and ideas to make it easier. Love that man!