If you have a church home, they often will have large tables and/or large floor space where you could sandwich your quilt, pin baste and then return home for the fun part, quilting!

Great find! at thrift shop found a heavy muslin duvet cover..for three dollars, it is queen size...alot of "backing fabric" for three dollars...I've found so much fabric at thrift..good place to look on a budget. I agree with Jan...wide fabric is a wonder. so much easier and neater.

For Christmas I made my ex-MIL a memory quilt and by the time I added all the pictures I wanted it ended up being HUGE. I had the same issue you're having.......where am I going to be able to lay this out to make my sandwich?

I ended up moving my couch temporarily into the kitchen and using my living room foor. It worked out great, I got the space I needed and it turned out, everyone LOVED sitting on the couch in the kitchen, chatting with whoever was cooking. Even after I was done with the quilt sandwich, I left it in there for a few days and my kids protested when I finally moved it back. They're still trying to convince me we "need" a couch for the kitchen now.

If you use a new sheet wash it a couple of time and don't put fabric softer on it ...........this will get the sizing out of the sheet........................a friend told me once not to use sheet because of the thread count but if that is all you can afford at the time ..........use this and see if you like it .......................on ulitarian quilts I have use old sheets that I wash and it done just find...........but i will say this if you are making a heirloom quilt do as the ladies says, get the best you can..........I have done this both ways and happy with the results ....................hope this helps and congrs on quilt and keep on quilting :D:thumbup:

you have received good advise on the quilting... I just want to say the quilt is beautiful

do you have a wall? I have learned to tape the layers to a wall. the weight keeps it tight. and sometimes I do really large quilts in sections. Leah day has a good utube video on how to attach the sections. It's beautifull!!!!!

I do not know if this help you. But I seen this and thought it would be good. We have been remoldling so I have some wood it work good. I us it all the time even on the one that are to big. check it out I us my table http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNy...feature=relmfu

I think you might do better using a king instead of a queen sheet for the backing.

If you have an ironing board and a piece of plywood or a hollow core door, you can lay the door or wood on the ironing board and lay your quilt sandwich across it. Clamp it to your wood or door (you can sometimes get a damaged door at Lowe's or Home Depot for $5.00) and baste the center section. Move the quilt sandwich to the left or right, clamp it down and baste that section, then move to the left or right and finish basting it. The ironing board means you don't have to bend over as it is adjustable in height. Or, if you have a table with straight legs, cut 4 sections of large PVC pipe and drill holes through it at the height you want your work surface to be. Screw a stove bolt through the holes. Lower the table legs onto the stove bolts and you will have elevated your table to a comfortable working height and the table legs have not been harmed.

That's a beautiful quilt and you did a good job on making it. I hope you will re-post when you finish quilting it.