I go to my church and use tables in the fellowship hall. It makes it easier. I usually do three or four while I am there. That means a I have a lot of safety pins, but I don't mind. My DH even goes and puts the tables on blocks so that I don't have to bend as much.

I don't like doing big ones either. I guess that's why I have had four quilt tops hanging in a closet for several years.

It's not too bad. I get on the floor. I use fusible batting and pins and then iron it while it's on the floor on one side and then iron the other side. I leave the pins. Ironing helps with the puckers on the back. Each time I've done this, there were no puckers.

I use my dinning room table, prefer the 'hard surface' over the bed. Sometimes it is so easy, I laugh at myself...and other times it can take me days, because for whatever reason nothing squares up and I have nothing but wrinkles. Weither it be the quilt top, the batting, the backing or my frame of mind (?) nothing works...thats when I step away and go do something else....some times for a day or two, and when I go back....everything is ok....I think a lot of us expect the sandwiching to be a quick and simple event, and it is not...you need patience to get everything flat and smooth...

I just like the sewing and putting the blocks together, after that not much happens, unless I send it out for machine quilting. I used to hand quilt but that takes too long.

Not only my cat but the dog too! She (dog) thinks she's helping to hold it down for me when she sits on the quilt, but her tail wagging messes up the layout. the cat just thinks he has new toys to run into/on/under to attack the dog. :)

it hurts my back no matter where I do it...even when I put it on a bed.

About the time I'm crawling around on the floor trying to sandwich my quilt is about the same time I'm swearing "this will be the last one of these things I ever make!" But then time passes and I see too many cute things on this board. Working on the bed sounds like a much better idea.

I bring mine to work and spray baste, then I can lay it over my long table and pin/hand baste. I don't have a floor big enough at home.

I tape the backing to the floor, then put on fusible batting and the top. I iron the sandwich while it's still on the floor, let it cool so that the fusible batting fuses properly and then turn it over and iron the other side, from the middle out. I've discovered it works well for me, as long as the felines don't "help" me too actively!