Yes do as I did last time and use a fleece blanket much easier and cuddly too.

I tape the backing to the floor or table, depending on the size of your quilt. You can use masking tape. Then layer your batting and top making sure that your top is straight as can be. Pin every 6 inches, or baste with tread. Hope this helps.

Get a roll of painters tape or masking tape. Lay your quilt top face down on the floor. Put a piece of tape on the upper left hand corner, then exactly opposite- lower right hand corner. Go all around the top taping, then taping it opposite approx every 10-12". Lay down your batting on top of that. (make sure you have unfolded it for 24 hours so it can relax) Tape your batting down the same way. Lay down your backing face side up and tape again. Starting in the middle and working outward like a spider web either use safely pins (for machine quilting) or temporarily baste for hand quilting. I've (knock on wood) never had a wrinkle in any of mine when using this method. Be sure and use a walking foot (on some basic straight lines first)so that your machine doesn't bunch up the backing. Then once you have it all secured you can do freehand quilting or whatever you want.;)

Hi Lique, I am lucky to have a large dinning table so I spread the quilt, face down on the table then put on the batting then backing. I use safety pins and pin about every foot, no worry about getting poked with straight pins even while hand sewing. My quilts always have a border edge so I just have to trim the batting then fold over the border and machine sew it on, now all layers are held together and the center is safety pined, I finish with the hand sewing. Hope you can understand this, good luck!

You have lovely answers here!
I do most of the same. On larger quilts I pin (straight pins) across the path of the long line of stitching and remove them as I sew, that way the small bunching is smoothed/eased out as you sew from pin to pin.Then one does not have a large wrinkle that you collect over the length.
Happy Quilting!
From Bev

OK. Now we see: no alternative to bone braking kreeping on the floor and scratching with the needles the surface of it.
I do the sandwich process like the others.
Personally I have bad experience just to pin a quilt which is going to be squeezed through my sewing machine. I always baste it with cheep cotton thread after pinning.
You want the backing fabric (faced down to the flor, then tacked with tape) to be smooth but not stretched! Will pucker.
Once I used polar fleece for batting, this is stretchy too and when smoothing it, it will stretch. Causes puckering.
And once I used a curved sewing line for quilting.
Guess what: yes, puckerd.
Like many of my embroideries did- hahaha, so it always is a perfect match.
By the way: my face is wrinkled too, hehehe.

I lay the backing on the floor, then put the wadding on, and the the top and pin and baste. Then I roll and work the open edges...its my least favourite paet of making quilts!

Congratson getting this far. Do you have a friend to help you?