This twin size quilt has been in the works for awhile now.  My son has been asking me about it so I decided to pull it back out to continue to work on it.  I have finished the quilt top months ago but the prospect of making a large quilt sandwich always makes me stall.  It is fairly a labor intensive activity involving being on my knees for a long time.  In order for the sandwich to work out precisely, I first put the batting (I usually use Dream batting - request (thinnest) or select(mid)) .  Then I place the quilt top over the batting.  Then I align the two layers and smooth out the quilt top.  The two will like to be stuck together so make sure everything is neatly smoothed out.  When the two layers are correctly aligned and smoothed into place, I just roll the two layer together and put it aside.   Then I pull out the backing fabric and tape it down to the floor or table with blue painting tape also making sure that all wrinkles and dimples are smoothed out.  Once it is all flattened out and taped down, I unroll the 2 layers over the backing making sure that it is also correctly aligned.  Once everything is unrolled and smoothed out (this will probably take awhile), I get the quilting pins and begin pinning the three layers together.  I make straight alternating rows approximately 3-4 inches apart.  This should prevent things from shifting around.  Once everything is pinned together - and I pin all the way to the edges, I roll it back up so that the maching quilting can begin.

                           

Now the fun quilting part begins.  I have quilted a twin size quilt once before and it's not easy to fit it into a home sewing machine but when the quilt is tightly rolled and I start right from the center, it should work fine.  I have not quilted anything larger than a twin size.

I use a Bernina home machine to sew and quilt.  I have several - one a fairly newish model and others are older models.  I do love the way they sew!