Some great ideas here - thankyou. Unfortunately I don't have any walls that are big enough to take a quilt, and only the one floor - most of my rooms are very small. I'll have to see if I can think of another venue I could use. It's probably right that there's too much give in the carpet, though it doesn't have much of a pile. The weird thing is that until recently I never had any problems with sandwiching - I just did it and it was fine, but recent ones have all gone wrong. Starching the backing is a good idea - will do that next time. I still haven't gone back to this quilt -it's lying on the floor where I left it last night. Tomorrow I'm going to a quilt show so maybe that will cheer me up and motivate me again!