For effective LA quilting shots, lighting is everything. You need to have the light coming from one side to adequately show the quilting and you can't take a picture with a flash. This leads to many blurry shots unless you have a tripod to mount the camara. I take most of my best quilting closeup pictures while the quilt is still on the rack. Then I lay it out somewhere you can see the whole quilt, but like you, most places in my home aren't big enough to display the whole quilt. That is when I take a sheet and lay it out on the lawn with a quilt on it. Ideally, I would love to hang them up but I have yet to find an area on my property for that.