Ok ladies (and gents) I'm not understanding how to do the back of my quilted wall hanging (14 x 21)to hang it up...I have made my sleeve and am ready to hand stitch it to the back...but how will that hang the "hanging" Guess I'm just having a "moment" and it is not clicking with me....someone help me understand...... thanks so much...
I have even bought a round dowell to put in the sleeve but still not clicking.... :)

Once you put the sleeve on and the dowel rod in, you attach string, ribbon or fabric to the ends of the dowel rod that stick out and hang it from hooks on the wall.
I have also done the sleeve in two parts leaving a center space between the two parts to hang the rod in the center.

Does that help or make it worse?

There are several ways to hang a wall hanging, those are jus two.

The dowel will need to attach to something on your wall. Sometimes you will see a shelf with a dowel underneath it that works as the hanger.

I use a black curtain rod (you can buy them at target, home depot, etc.) to display my quilts at home. They usually will have some packages of rings with small clips that you can buy in addition to the curtain rod.

You can also make an "invisible" hanger by making the sleeve a bit short, and inserting a simple dowel just a bit short of the width. Hang it on two nails BEHIND the quilt. It sort of floats on the wall.

Thank you all for the information....now will the quilt corners still stand up right? I like the invisible sleeve witht he nails ideal.... but the other ones make more sense to me now also...

This is how I hang mine. Too late for your hanging this time, but maybe next time! You can hang the dowel on a pushpin or small nail.

Thank you for posting photos of how your quilts are hanging on the wall. Great ideas thank you for sharing.

oh wow this one makes alot of sense.....thanks so much and yes for my next one....

maggiemay, that's clever

Maggiemay,

That's fantastic! But - I don't understand how you inserted the dowell. I can see putting the one end in one of the triangles, but how do you get the other end in the other side. The fabric won't stretch over it. What's the secret?

oh good question......

You just slip it in there. Like put it at the bottom of the triangles (across the width of the quilt) and slide it up until it hits the top of the triangles.

btw for small wall hangings, I like these:
http://www.countryquiltsnfabric.com/hangers.php
They are very affordable. I bought them in several sizes back when they didn't have online ordering. I had to call to order and they were so nice.

Right- the triangles are open, only stitched to the binding side of the quilt, so the dowel slips right in.

Oh those are nice too, I guess I will be ordering a few of those... thank you for the site....

I've done this also with some medium sized ones. If it's heavy though you have to be careful that the clips don't dig into the fabric where you clip it.

Gale and Maggiemay,

Thank you ever so much. It's easy when you know how!

I can't wait for the BACKS of my quilts to look as nice as yours do... :)

I hang most of mine that way too. :)

like this idea

I just buy a pretty curtain rod, and hang my wall hangings that way. I like the movement in a breeze.

I just saw some hangers in the Keepsake Quilting catelogue (probably website too) what for longer/larger wuilts you attqch tot he wall and they pinch/grip the quilt. i am doing a wall hanging that is 12 feet long and that is the only hway I can think of hanging it - just another idea

For small hangings, I don't bother with the sleeve. I just pin a couple of straight pins, usually the ones with glass heads, through the hanging and into the wall. I try to make sure the whole thing is straight, of course. :-)

I have just begun hanging my smaller wall quilts this way and I like it very much!

Very attractive method and lovely wallhanging.
Congrats, Kutnso

I have also used a yard stick, cut to size necessary to put in the rod pocket and on the ends, drilled a small hole which will go over two small nails in the wall. You will have to make the rod pocket a bit shorter than the width of the hanging, but you see no visual hanging device this way.

If I may make a suggestion, I highly recommend that any wood that touches your precious quilts be sealed first, varnish is one choice. Prolonged contact with raw wood will stain fabrics.
I hang my quilts with strong fishing line (monofilament) on each end of the hanger rod so the support is invisible

Thank you! Good advice! :thumbup:

I needed these ideas - Thanks -- J.

I like the above but now have found rods that ar similar but are made to hang from ceiling or wall. There are clips screwed to wall and you snap the rod into them. The clips on the rings them clip the quilt to it. It hangs much straighter and close to the wall..Leaves no room for waving. I bought mine at Menards

What a great idea! I do a lot of wallhanging quilts and will definitely try this. Thank you for sharing.

Go to this website to see a magnetic hanging system...just costs more than what is shown in these postings but there are no nails in the wall.

http://www.magnificentquilt.com/

This is what I do. You hang the dowel that is inside the pocket on the two nails. Works beautifully.

For a small quilt I sew small plastic curtain rings on the corners of the quilt and then put through pins or small nails in the wall.

Maggiemay,
love your sleeve idea for hanging things. Will have to try it.

I've never seen this but I like it! Thanks for sharing.

Be careful with those. I've had similar things take the paint (and sometimes pieces of the drywall) right off the wall when I took it down. We have real wood paneling in our living room so I couldn't use that-it would peel the varnish right off the wood.

That's a great idea and I really like the looks.

I did the curtain rod ring thing with a larger wall hanging, but I actually just used a 1" dowel and put those balls w/ one flat side on each end (I put the rings on the dowel before gluing the balls on) and then use two nails in the wall to rest the dowel on. DH is very anal about putting nails in studs and never using anchors if possible and this way, he could put the nails wherever he wanted because the rod just rests on them-so it can be slid back and forth quite a bit.

I wanted to hang a 2 x 3 foot quilted wall hanging in my office and wasn't sure whether it was okay to put nails, etc. into the walls. I found some 3M Command removable hangers that are designed to keep computer/electrical cords out of the way and attached to a wall or baseboard. I put a dowel in a sleeve on the back of the quilt then slipped the dowel into the removable Command hangers. Worked like a charm. Think I am going to do this at home so I can move things around whenever I want with no marks on the wall.