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How do you display your quilts in your home?

Old 01-04-2012, 04:02 AM
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I tend to use them all over the house. My cat has destroyed the upholstery on the legs of all of my arm chairs. I have quilts drapped over several of them. I also have one on each of two sofas. The cat sheds horribley and I can wash the quilts a whole lot easier than cleaning the furniture. A word of caution. Blue fabric in particular used in quilts will fade if exposed to sunlight. I used to keep my sofa in front of my bay window in the livingroom, I had it drapped in a mostly blue quilt I made from blocks I won in an exchange. Parts of it are so faded it is hard to tell what the original color was. The cat still loves it and the sofa underneath looks like new.
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Old 01-04-2012, 05:40 AM
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Would love to see a picture of this!


Originally Posted by barbrn1128 View Post
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
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Old 01-04-2012, 05:42 AM
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DITTO! Want to see pictures of the ladders!


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Can thoes of you who use ladders POST PICTURES ?! Id love to see how you do it !!!
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Old 01-04-2012, 11:45 AM
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My plan was to have one in each room of the house, and that has now expanded to the front and the back porch

1. I have a 'display' in my family room that's some of the awards that my sailor son got, my older son's college grad photo, and my daughter's contribution when she worked at a pottery shop. It has a rod to hang quilts, and they are changed monthly

2. Just this year I decided to hang a quilted wreath on my front door, and have decided that will change monthly also

3. I hung a 'spool' wall hanging in my living room, that's open to my sewing room. I used a very unobtrusive curtain rod and added a sleeve that accommodated hiding the hardware

4. My plan is to make a similar wall hanging for my back porch, where in Nov I had a metal autumn thing hanging. There's no protection there, so I'm not sure this will be a year long thing

5. I have a small wall hanging in my master bath that mainly uses the cathedral window theme

6. There's a very very old hanging in my half bath that's supposed to be a bunch of basenji heads (basenjis are a big part off my life)

7. Our dogs are in our 'dog room,' but on the house plans it's named the 'sunroom.' It's so bright and sunny, and we've been fortunate enough to have gone to HA twice. I was drawn to Hawaiian Quilting, so that is how that room will eventually be decorated, complete with a wallhanging.

What I have planned:
I have 2 quilts from my husband's grandmother, one will be hung as the headboard in the master bed, and one will be hung in a large expanse of wall where the upstairs meets the downstairs

I plan to make 3 small walhangings, each somehow using what was important to each of my 3 children when they were growing up, to hang in a front room that I've decorated with old old toys.

My husband is planning to redo a corner of our master bed, and it will have one section that will be a glass door with stacked quilts visible. Quilts to be used of course, but looking nice while being displayed too.


That's the plan, who knows if I'll follow through
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Old 01-05-2012, 02:23 AM
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I like the embroidery hoop idea too, besides hanging on a door , a nice hook on the wall would work too for smaller spaces. How big of a hoop did you use ????
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Old 01-05-2012, 02:21 PM
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I like the embroidery hoop idea too, besides hanging on a door , a nice hook on the wall would work too for smaller spaces. How big of a hoop did you use ????
It's a big one - just one that I had lying around gathering dust. I also found a really cute over the door hanger from LTD. It was really inexpensive too. http://www.ltdcommodities.com/Spring...d=catalog70008
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I'm with you Nettie. I've even displayed them on my dining room table but they come off if we are going to eat in there. I have them all over the place. Not enough room for them all so I have to rotate them.

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Anywhere I can find a place.
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Old 01-05-2012, 07:52 PM
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I used those Scotch Command strips to hang several magnets to the wall above the headboard of our bed. Then I used a very inexpensive metal curtain rod through the pocket on the back of my quilts. This allows me to easily rotate and display quilts for every season. It makes me happy to walk into the bedroom and be greeted by one of my quilts on display just for us.
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Old 01-05-2012, 08:43 PM
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This ladder is from my father-in-law's house - he passed away in 1979. My husband's sisters arrived and took away what the family had considered treasures - table, chairs, etc - before my husband arrived. This is what my husband brought home to keep a remembrance of his dad. So it's had a place of honor for years in our house. The sign on top has the "When life gives you scraps, make quilts" saying. The quilts are ones my mother-in-law made as a child. They have to be 80-90 years old. There were two more quilts on the bottom rungs until my husband took them today to put on he top of the entertainment center. I've been asking him to do that for months. I don't like how he has them displayed up there, but it's a start.

There's an old ugly wooden bench at the foot of my bed and I have folded quilts displayed both on top of and under that bench. THe ones I make stay on the back of a rocker - we have several - until they go out into the world. Sometimes a top and it's backing will hang there until I decide if they really belong together.

I'm looking at ladders that are made for hanging quilts. You can find bunches of them. I'm tempted by the ones on thewoodshedd.com and robinsons - not sure if that's the whole name, but that's what I wrote down anyway. Would like to lean one next to the entertainment center.
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Old 01-06-2012, 09:04 AM
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My dear husband made three ladders for me. He actually made six. Four I was supposed to sell. I sold two. I put mine in my living room, and it is full of quilts. I sold one to a friend and one at a quilt show. I gave one to my guild as a door prize for the guild's quilt show. I quit advertising them and put two in my studio. One holds quilts and one holds table runners and small wall quilts. I love them.

My DH also put up a curtain rod on this tall long wall in my living room. He is so gracious that if I say I want to change out the quilt, he goes and gets his tall ladder and helps me change it. I hang several on my wall by just stapling them across the top. These are all smaller quilts, lap tops and smaller. Plus I have two quilt racks.

I have seen them in antique pie keeps, which have metal opened doors.

Just be careful not to store directly on wood or metal, as your quilts can get stained.
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