Need ideas for hanging a small "quilt"

[Joyce D.]

I'm making a small wallhanging. Finished size will be about 6" x 24". It will hang vertically. What do I sew on the back to hang it? What would be used on the wall to hang it on? This will hopefully be finished and given away in three days. Thanks!

[Terry K.]

I'll be interested in reading what others post here! I hang small quilts a couple ways. I do make a sleeve and some times I insert a knitting needle into the opening and just use push pins to hang it on the wall. Sometimes, my DH cuts a slat of wood for me about 1/2 inch shorter than the width of the quilt. He also drills a hole in each end. I then string some fishing line through the holes and tie it off so that the line becomes the invisible hanger. Again, I use push pins to hold the quilt up on the wall.

Some of my friends have used strips of velcro and stapled the rough side to their wall! Another friend makes fabric loops that she attaches to the quilt top and then she threads a decorative piece of wood into the loop and that is how she deals with small quilts. Then another friend just uses straight pins that have a small head and she just pierces the quilt with the pin as she anchors it to the wall.

[Betty J.]

I do the really low end way for my small quilts even if they have a sleeve that I had to put on for a show...I attach those bent safety pins out of sight of the top and corner and push pins on the wall. The bent pins button over the heads of the push pins and it works like a charm. So easy. But for a present, you may want to just sew on a large beading jump ring about the size to button over the push pins.

[Rita C.]

Great suggestions. I tend to do small tabs on the top and use a thin gardening dowel (like the ones you would use for staking tulips) and this I hang from a wall hook. I have also done the kind they use for the Altzheimer project - I know there is a tutorial somewhere on this website but I can't remember where. You take 2 squares about 4", fold them on the diagonal and place them in the top corners and sew them onto your quilt before you put the binding on. Then you can put a dowel through the back and hang it without the hook being seen. Here's a photo of what I mean because I am not sure I described it very well.

[Rita C.]

I also have started to use the "foldy corners". That's what I call them LOL. It's quick and easy... Ami Sims has a tutorial on her website on how to do them, but basically they are done just like Rita said.

Fold a 4" square in half diagonally (size can be a bit different, I use 4" for small and 6" for large wall hangings but any size in that range will work). Pin into place with the two raw edges lined up with the raw edges of the binding. Baste within the 1/4" seam allowance if you want to (I do it about 1/8" in)but that's optional. Now sew on the binding like usual, catching the edges of the foldy corner as you do. Finish like usual.

Easy peasy! Then any dowel type rod can be used, hung on a Command Strip or Picture Hanger hook or push pin.

[Nancy R.]

I just put a hanging sleeve on the back and then put a thumbtack (not a pushpin, but a thin thumbtack) inside the sleeve on each side and just push them into the wall. They make a little hole that is easily spackled and it's really easy to get the quilt to hang straight. The same could be done using the Ami Simms folded squares instead of the hanging sleeve. For a gift, I always put on a hanging sleeve and will sometimes include some nice wooden hanging clips made specifically for hanging quilts. I don't remember the brand, but they have some nice ones.

Nancy

[Caroline A.]

I usually put a narrow sleeve on the back, but until recently I've just been using some pins to "nail" the wall hanging to the wall. Since I've discovered the Command hooks, I've started using the small clear ones and cutting a wood slat that's thin enough to fit in the hook and using that in the sleeve to hang the quilt. The hooks can be put up easily and so far seem to hold well.

[Pam D.]

Like Fi, I use the 3m command hooks, my preference is the utensil hooks although they do a wide variety. Then a thin piece of dowel through a hanging sleeve and hey presto. The advantage of these hooks is that they are on a backing that sticks to the wall but by pulling a piece at the bottom they come off again. No holes in the wall and no damage to the wall on removal.

[Pam D.]

Don't know about small wall hangings, (not made any), but I do know that large tapestries such as the ones at Windsor Castle are kept in place with wide velcro strips aroung the edge. (That is how they were able to be removed so quickly when the fire happened)

[Pam D.]

I use small dowels , but usually prefer small twigs or branches or old wood knitting needles or pieces of bamboo. Depending on material then I do not use a sleeve but shorter smalls tabs over say the branch.
cheers
Jeanine

[Pam D.]

With a quilt that small I would use thin straight pins right in the dry wall. The hole is so small it is not seen.

[Eileen K.]

I've done both the sleeve and the T-pin method. Since I change my wallhangings with the seasons/holidays, the T-pins make it very easy to change them around.