Organization Wednesday is still going on at my friend's house. We've made huge progress down stairs, up the stairs and in the spare bedroom -- as well as the few things that had made it into the study. Next time we turn to the hallway leading to the sewing room and deeper into the fabric. I'm pretty good/fast dealing with "just" fabric, the bedroom has a lot more categories of things I'm not so equipped to deal with. But we have room to walk around the bed and access each group, and can lay out things on half the bed. The other half is the designated place for extra blankets and such.
Before I went there, I pulled out the free ping pong table in the back yard I got a month or so ago -- my quilting life or at least laying out things is about to get so much better! The table is a full 108" long -- which happened to be exactly the size of the back I grabbed as an example, so the clamps I bought held on snugly at both ends. Clamps are firm but not too tight, I could barely open some of them at the hardware store. I'll cut a piece of warm and natural batting to use as a pad and I'll be able to do some last minute ironing and such in place as well, I'm planing on spray/glue basting (for pins I'd leave the pad off). The height is good, not having the four posters of the bed to worry about is great. Yes, the sides have to drape but still so much better than trying to layout a queen size quilt on top of a queen sized bed. And yes, I'll have to deal with weather and wind and storage over the winter and things like that, but first I'm gonna sandwich me a few tops!!