How do you display your quilts in your home?
 

I'm looking for ideas how to display my quilts in my home. For example, quilt racks, quilt ladders, hanging on walls. Any pictures would be great.
Thanks.

I had a old decorative curtain rod, we put it on the wall in the living room and use the rings to hang a quilt.

Nothing exotic here, just the traditional wall and floor quilt racks and wall hangingss.
... Plus of course, the old fashioned display method on beds and couches!!

I'm always looking for new/different/unique display possibilities, so hope some to follow will show us those! :)

I have some quilt racks and a glass and wood quilt chest and I also use decorative curtain rods.

I have an oak quilt rack and a metal quilt rack that I move quilts around on. I have a short ladder with lap quilts draped on the rungs. I have quilts on the back of the couch, loveseat & recliner. I have wallhangings mixed in with paintings on the walls. Can't imagine where else I could display them with a rancher style house, but IF I had a home with stairs & railings I think you could come up with a few interesting displays.

That is pretty much what I do, except I've added several windows that I use as quilt display areas instead of having a curtain/drape on them. Two of them look out onto "nothing", so am happy to have them displaying quilts.

I have 2 quilt racks and decorative rods for hanging quilts on the walls. I just salvaged an old wooden ladder for $.50 which is weathered gray and have it leaning up against the side of our stone fireplace. As the rungs aren't very wide, I hang my runners and wall hangings on the rungs. Now 3 of my quilting friends are scouting for old wooden ladders.

I hanging most of my quilts on decorative curtain rods. I also have them on the back of the couch, on quilt ladders, in a glass front cabinet and hanging on a door using an embrodiery hoop. Here's a link to my album if you want to see how they look.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...bums16383.html

Anywhere I can find a place.

I've given every quilt I ever made away; someone day I will be able to make one for myself. Have three quilts to do now, and the list keeps growing! But I enjoy making them!

I like folding the smaller ones and putting them on shelf in TV cabinet or curio cabinet shelf. Also fold 2 or 3 and put in large basket or magazine rack. I saw a picture of a bed without a head board the other day, and they had taken one of those decorative rods and placed it on the wall above the bed about as high as a headboard would be, and then they hung a quilt over it, I really liked that look. Much better than just hanging a large quilt.

I have a quilt rack that displays three generations of quilting. The rest are on the bed. Edie

PS - Not all at the same time!!!!!!!!

I don't. Our area is very dry and dusty, so I don't want them to look grubby as I'm often asked to do a "Show and Tell at quilt groups or respite centres etc. and I like them to look nice when I am "showing off"...too lazy to wash them as well.

Hang them on everything!
 

If it holds still it is fair game to use as a hanger!

Bamboo garden stick --$1.00
Tiny hook--almost free
weird stick -free
velcro and school glue which did not take paint off after 2 years--less than $1.00
In Chile the circuit box is at the front door-that had to be covered!

I found an antique ladder and have my quilts wrapped on the steps. My LR is half vaulted so the other half is like a suspended wall, I plan on hanging my bigger quilt up there. I have one ready to go just need to get a tall enough ladder to reach the top

Your Quilts are beautiful, also displayed very nice.

I have some on the backs of chairs and others on a quilt rack my uncle made.

I have a quilt display cabinet that my 3 daughters gave me , it was bought in Winnsboro,TX. in the 2002. Beautiful Amish
glass with wood frame . I have 2 quilts in it one I made and the other my mother made in 1948. Hers is all hand quilted, it was
a gift to my sister just older than me, now it is in safe keeping for one of my grand daughters.

My husband built me a quilt ladder. It's made of wood and has rungs just like any other ladder It's about 7 feet tall and the rungs about 22 inches wide. Spaced about a foot apart. hope that helps I love mine. It stands against the wall and takes up very little room and displays them very well. barb hope this helps

Like the idea of the embroidery hoop as running out of wall space here

I only display ONE...there is one on the sofa and one in the recliner, but only ONE is on display at any given time, and it hangs from a display my DH made.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]300015[/ATTACH]for the holidays, I had my Christmas teacup quilt hanging

Can thoes of you who use ladders POST PICTURES ?! Id love to see how you do it !!!

Jacquie , that is SO pretty !!! Is that a pattern I can find somewhere ?! I have a teapot collection, and that would be perfect to make !!!!

My full size quilts I hang in my hallway. The house is bungalow so it has a long hall. I cut a trim board 3 inches wide by about 90 inches long. Then glues clothes pins onto it. Used a strong, sturdy glue and lots of wood clothes pins. Then I nailed the board with clothespins onto the wall at the ceiling. Hang the quilts by clothepinning them. No need for a hanging sleeve. The hall lighting is tracklighting so it is more like an art gallery. And get help and a ladder to hang or take down the quilt.

I have a cathedral ceiling with a loft upstairs, so I hang them on that half wall
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I have a quilt rack.lol Not many out. My friend however just built a new home with a huge quilt room and spaces all over the house for quilts and she uses the wooden quilt hangers. It is beautiful.

On the bed, and on quilt racks which are in all the bedrooms(for the extras).:)

I have a very large quilt rack that DH made me a couple of years ago. It holds about 12 quilts. Quilts on the backs of my chairs, beds. I have curtain rods on the walls all over the house for wall hangings.

What great quilts and wonderful ways to show them!

Mine are all over the house,beds,chairs,walls ladders. Where ever they look good.

kathleen, You can at least display the pictures of the quilts, that is what I do. Lisa

on the beds, on the walls, on an old ladder, just anywhere that they ift. I do love looking at them. I move them and rotate them. But I never tire of them....

My husband made a display ladder that is 20 inches wide , 8 ft high and 6 rungs so I can hang a few or a lot depending on how much of a quilt I want to show.

I LOVE this. Just gorgeous!

I have a quilt rack/stand in each room and one in the hallway. I found most of my quilt racks/stands at the Goodwill store for between 1.99 and 5.00, couldnt resist.

My DH has made me some beautiful oak quilt racks, a quilt curio and now is making a quilt coffee table. I too, have them on backs of couches and on quilt ladders. I love looking at them.

Seems that I have seen nice curtain rods at JoAnns, or Target, that are not to expensive. and if you recieve JOanns coupons I believe you can use them on the rods. Have been looking at the rods also, to replace junkers in my hubbys den/office for over a year but haven't bought anything yet. have fun looking!

I bought a curtain rod at Walmart for less than $15.00 and it has clips on the end of the hoops. I hang one quilt there. I want to buy some more to do the same. I haven't kept too many quilts that I have made. I have two in the living room hanging over the love seat and recliner and two on our bed (we use those quilts). The one on the curtain rod covers a window and I'm sure it is going to fade it so I think I will take it down and hang the curtain rod on a wall.

I love your idea using an embroidery hoop on the door!