It’s done and hung!
Antique blocks, except for the hexagon flower on top, appliqued onto some Kona White and quilted simply. Even the binding is antique fabric. Very happy with the way it turned out. I have a few more in mind with more antique blocks in a modern setting.
I held my breath and washed and dried the quilt to get it all puckery. Love that texture. I’d washed the blocks but not the binding so I knew I was taking a chance.
So, speaking of hanging quilts…how do you hang your quilt?
I like a quilt to hang flat on the wall, without a bulge across the top from a dowel. I don’t want to be able to tell how the quilt is hung. The first 2 photos below are with a dowel. Just wanted to get it up on the wall. I do not like this way.
This next photo is so much better IMHO.
It’s flat, just a quilt laying on the wall.
I used a piece of trim board, 1/4″ x 2″ with small cup hooks in either end. And then also put a board on the bottom edge as well because I’ve noticed that even if a quilt hangs flat at first the bottom will eventually get wavy. I cringe when I see beautiful quilts, sometimes even by professional artists, and they hang it with a big honkin dowel, as evidenced by the bulge across the top.
Very nice Virginia!!! I love the colors, of course blue is my favorite, and the different old blocks on the white is great. Sure looks like you are having fun and being creative!!!
That’s delightful! I am going to come clean here with the hanging. When I wnat my quilt to hang and stand alone on the wall with no bulge, I open my little stapler (I’m usually hanging on drywall) start at the center, and put my stapler so it goes in right in the edge of the quilt beside the binding and give it a WACK! If I can see it, which I usually can’t, I get out my sharpie and color (carefully) the staple the make it camoflaged. I do it all the time, shameful, I know.
Not a bad idea.
Now that is a great idea!! Small stables, can’t possible hurt anything!! Thanks!!
Love your use of antique blocks. I have a stack of them left over from rescued quilts that I didn’t want to make pillows etc out of. This is a great use for them especially since it utilizes all the different patterns. Love it!
For my mini’s,I like to use the fast finish triangle method technique I learned from AAQI quilts–link:
http://www.alzquilts.org/paqdisplay.html
A small dowel then supports the quilt. A second dowel can be put in the corners to help hang straight and flat. I would think it would work for larger quilts as well up to the length of the dowel. Narrow flat trimwork can be purchased in lengths longer than a dowel.
Love your use of the blocks! I’m going to try your hanging idea nixt time.Thanks.
I have always liked to hang quilts the way you describe here – very simply and flat to the wall. But now I have a couple that I want to rotate seasonally in the same spot and they are not exactly the same size – am going to try a Hang It Dang It – but am afraid that it will have the dowel bulge you are talking about
Virginia: Love your quilt. I agree with the others….great use of old orphan blocks. I hang my quilts with those awful yellow head straight pins. I’m going into sheet rock so it’s easy to push them all the way in. I do color the yellow head with a sharpie to match the quilt. This way I can pin sides and bottom. Since I like to move my quilts around, this doesn’t leave a very big hole. I agree with you…I hate those big dowel bulges.
PS: sometimes I cut the yellow heads off and nothing shows…drawback? you need plyers to remove the pin stubs fromt he wall when you move the quilt.
Love the blend of the old with the new…a little yin with a little yang. The use of the blank space really makes your beautiful antique blocks POP! It’s overall simplicity lends a restfulness to the eye…well done!
Virginia: I am glad you are getting back or maybe you never left, to using antique quilt pieces. I like how it looks. Great Job.
I have come up with a way to hang my wall art that make it look quite crisp. I cut 1/4″ doweling the length needed for all four sides and insert them into the four corner triangle ‘pockets’ I have sewn on the backing. I came up with that so when they sell it all rolls up for shipping in a poster tube…