I have a friend who has a large living room with large open space that I use to pin the sandwich together. Also my last one I quilted in peices thats to say I only put the batting down the center, and backing, with extra to sew the border peices to quilted it leaving about 2 inches unquilted around the quilt and then added the side batting and backing next and quilted that it came out fine. hope this doesnt sound confusing