Expanding quilt display???

If you bought an attractive curtain pole (one of those wooden ones with pretty finials), you could place two brass 'cup hooks' and either end and then hang any of your quilts - up to the maximum length of the pole

- on it. The pole would come off the hooks to change the quilts, and could be put back up again. It wouldn't need any more fiddling than that. The pole would be centred of course, from side to side: you might have to do an average to get them to look more or less centred from floor to ceiling? . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

These magnet based quilt hanging systems have recently appeared on the market - perhaps this info will spark some more ideas for you...it is possible to buy industrial strength magnets now at retail stores and metal strips should be no problem either. barnyowl

Say you have an blank area on a wall. You have various sized quilts you'd like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

What popped into my head is to use something like an expanding/telescoping curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

Now, how to get the proper type of rod and get it mounted on the wall just right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Yes, Jannell ? I have a good friend who is using a different version of these and loves them. I'm thinking of gradually switching to them in some areas of my home, since I do swap out my quilts several times a year for variety. The magnets on the wall mounts cling to whatever flat metal rod fits into the quilt ? very cool!

Hi everyone from one of "those" lurkers. Don't post often but read all.

Leslie, Here is the Ami Simms version. Haven't tried it but it has a video that might give you more ideas.

Anna Belle in hot Palm Bay

some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

Guess the heat got me, forgot to post the address = sorry.

Anna Belle

some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

You could also do like some museums do. They put a strip of moulding up near the ceiling that is angled out and has a lip. From this wires, metal hooks, and various other items can be used at whatever length and distance apart to come down to attach to whatever hanging mechanism you have to attach/grab/hold your quilt. This idea lends itself to no holes in the wall and the wall could then also be used on occasion for pictures or other objects.

Hope I've explained well enough what I've seen.

Steven Alaska

Say you have an blank area on a wall. You have various sized quilts you'd like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

What popped into my head is to use something like an expanding/telescoping curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

Now, how to get the proper type of rod and get it mounted on the wall just right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

I think most shower rods would be aluminium? . In message , Ginger in CA writes

What goes around comes around >ggYou could also do like some museums do. They put a strip of moulding up

Thank you. I knew there was a name. I've seen them used more and more in Hotels and Convention centers as well. It's from this that you hang any banners or anything like that, or pin items too. And nowhere else. In my mind they've come up with a compromise. Attendees want to hang things and they venue says okay, here and nowhere else.

We've actually kind of done this in the hallways at school too for the work from art class.

Steven Alaska

Are magnets strong enough for a larger piece? I'm thinking that's a lot of magnets!

I'd prefer a low-tech soluti>I just had a crazy idea floating around in my lil' blonde pea brain and I need

some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

need some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!

I've seen something like that advertised and even demo'd but I can't remember what it's called or where I saw it. :(

Google turned up this:

I have a couple of these -- a long one on one wall that I use to hang an antique bed quilt and a 48" one in my dining room that I use to hang various sized wall hangings. Many of them are narrower than the 48" but that doesn't bother me. If they are a few inches wider, they still hang nicely.

Julia in MN

I've heard of this idea done with two permanent hooks up high and then fishing line as the connector between the hooks and the ends of the rod. The fishing line is invisible and by using different lengths of rod anything can be hung. So far I have bought some fishing line but haven't actually hung anything yet!

Allison

What I want is something that is very close to the wall and completely invi= sible- hidden behind the quilt- and no picture rail or hooks near the ceili= ng. And (of course!) very inexpensive and that I can do-it-myself. =20

Thanks for all the suggestions.... you got my mind churning with some new w= ays to tackle the project!

Leslie & The Furbabies > I just had a crazy idea floating around in my lil' blonde pea brain and I=

need some input- tossing around some ideas.

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Ah! Reading the first sentence reminded me that a friend makes her hanging sleeves in three parts so that she can hang her quilts on a rod onto two hooks in the wall which are invisible when the quilt is up. All you would have to do would be to make the hanging sleeves to suit the positions of the hooks. . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

That's exactly the technique Philippa Naylor uses, too, Pat! :) I'm switching to that in order to postpone investing in a new system of hanging hardware, but I'll gradually do that, too.

Leslie, that is what I do in my hall and 1st floor bathroom, essentially. I use curton hooks or push-in hooks (the brass kind that are somewhat decorative) and hang a telescoping rod from that, then just put hanging sleeves on the quilts. After that its just a matter of feeding the rod through the hanging sleeve, ajusting the rod, and hanging everything. Sometimes a bit of the rod peeks through the ends, sometimes not. It works for me :)

-Irene

some input- tossing around some ideas.

like to display there at different times, but you don't want to mar the wall more than necessary. At the same time you want these various sized quilts to all be centered when hung there.

curtain rod that would work with magnets. You place it on the wall, centered, and use two screws about 12 in. apart centered on the rod to hold it to the wall. Then you somehow use magnets in the quilt- in the binding or a sleeve or inside a tube that could be tacked/pinned or velcro'd to the back of the quilt??? You can extend the rod to whatever width is needed for that particular quilt or collapse it for a smaller quilt... which would need magnets, too.

right and how to get the magnets into/unto the quilt and what rod height would be pretty much universal for the various quilts??? Give me some ideas!