saggy wallhanging
 

I made my first wall hangings and I really didn't have a clue to what I was doing. I put a pocket rod on the back and a dowel in it, but the top of the wall hanging is too droopy. I gave it to my dad for Father's Dad and I was appalled that it looked so bad when I saw it at his house yesterday!!!

Does the dowel run across the whole top? Did you spray starch it? Just a couple of thoughts.

The dowel runs across the whole top, but I think it's just too low.

Two things I've done are to sew a couple of the little white plastic o-rings on the back and nailing small finish nails onto which to hang them. I've also used regular straight pins hammered through the quilt and into the wall.

I attach my hanging sleeve right under the binding. As a matter of fact, I baste it on, raw edge of sleeve matching raw edge of wall hanging, then the sleeve gets sewn on to the wall hanging as I sew on the binding. The binding is then hand sewn on. Once completed, I pin the sleeve down so it doesn't move as I whip stitch the bottom of the sleeve onto the wall hanging Maybe you could get it back and sew on a new sleeve on the top of the wall hanging's back.

this is the way i do it as well. if using a string or ribbon on the dowel, though, it will show while hanging... so have to use a coordinated ribbon. otherwise, one has to use nails or pushpins in the wall at each end of the dowel

The sewn top of the sleeve, especially if it has a pleat, should be slightly below the binding seam so that when the rod is in place, nothing shows on the front.

I would try stapling the quilt to the wall. I always hang my wall hangings this way and the staples make such a small hole you can hardly see them. I usually staple in the seam of the binding and they are barely visible. Especially if you have problems with it lying flat. You can staples all 4 sides if necessary.

You could sew a soda tab on the droopy part and use a small nail or hook to attach to wall. I recently did that with an oddly shaped wall hanging and it worked great.

I always make sure my sleeve has a pleat in it, as the rod needs to have some place to live. and always all the way across the top just below the binding.......

Another thought, I have been looking at a quilt hanging system available on ebay that does not require a sleeve. I thought these were very interesting......
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quilt-Hanger...item51947f2099