If using the Kitchen table can also put your cutting board or cardboard under the bottom layer so no poking the table top on accident, never thought about the falling layers helping with the stretch !! :)

awhile back i saw where a lady taped her backing to the wall, sprayed and smoothed batting over that, sprayed batting and smoothed top over it. she said it worked. if it's a big quilt, may have to have couple ladders and a helper.
donna

I have a friend that put this wall up in her garage and doesn't hae to worry about spray. She loves it. I use those Command hooks and put my flannel up in the hallway, spray the quilts, then just remove the Command hooks (or leave them up, they are pretty high up on the wall). I put a sheet on the floor to get any falling spray. So much quicker and easier than crawling around on the floor -- and I'm getting too old to do that except for really large quilts. My group will also go over to our Hobby Lobby classroom, push the tables together and sandwich a number of quilts at a time.

I have a friend that baste my quilts on her longarm
I have her quilt the ones that I give to grandchildren
because they get used so much.

I have some padded table toppers (the thick ones that withstand heat. These are not my table size but larger than my table but are great to use for pinning and everything that needs a bigger surface. I believe I got them for free from someone that was tossing them. Perhaps GW or SavArmy would be a source. When done I just fold them up and push them behind something.

I always sandwhich on our dining room table. I have arthritis as well and it kills my wrists to be down on hands and knees on a hard floor. So, I might put it on the floor for a few minutes to match up seams on the backing and then put in a few grounding pins down the center. Then, I move it all to the large dining room table and then do it in quadrants. I've never had a ha problem and never had any puckers.

This is a WONDERFUL idea. I also thought of asking my friend who owns a LQS if I could come in at the end of day and pin. I thought of this while reading your post. Thanks for getting the brain juices flowing here!

I take it to the church social hall and move several tables together.

I use those folding cardboard mats and/or unfolded cardboard box and lay them out on my queen size bed.

At our church, where our quilting group meets, we have large banquet type tables (4-6 feet long), so we push a couple of them together and pin baste that way.