Well you guys have given me an idea....maybe a wooden dowel going across the bottom (I don't know where I would find a dowel that long) but I could hang the dowel or bar, put the roll of batting on and since I float my top and batting I could do as PaperPrincess says...quilt then cut it off at the end. BUT HAVING SAID THAT how would I unfold it because usually the batting is folded (my husband reminded me of that because when he walked into sewing room yesterday all he could do was to laugh as I was entangled up in batting ...folding unfolding trying to get it straight)! So PaperPrincess how do you deal with the folds? This is probably the easiest quandrom of quilting and I am making it into a mountain! Oh boy!