Originally Posted by Cathe
Georgia Bonesteel is the expert on this. She calls it "Lap Quilting" - your library probably has a few of her books.
I had done a lot of baby quilts before I heard about the lap quilting class I went to first, but that was about all. The lap quilting class opened up a whole new world to me. At the time, I was a school teacher, preacher's wife and mother to five. I was a foster mother to countless others and very active in the community, so the only way quilting could work for me was to have it "portable." Lap quilting was perfectly suited to my needs. I could do a few "tops" and put them in my purse to add the batting and backing while I sat with someone in a doctor's office, attended a NEA meeting or whatever.
If you have never tried it, one thing to keep in mind is to have extra backing seam allowance (just a little bit beyond the regular size of the top block), so you can easily turn under seams after the blocks are sewn together. That last step is sometimes a tough one, but the quilts look just as pretty as whole ones.
GramMER
P.S. If this scrolls across the screen, I am sorry. I tried to figure out why it was so large for me, but nothing looks different in the set-up.