I am so excited to receive your mini quilt for our quilt show!!! So I was thinking about hanging them and remembered…. I forgot to, and promised to share with you the details of my Mini Quilt Wall in my home sewing room…
I used random yardsticks that I have collected through the years…from antique stores and sometimes even on eBay…(We have Primitive Gatherings Yardsticks for sale at shows and I know we have them in the store, so if you want them you will have to call as there is something about the shipping of them and that is why they are not on the site)…I then lightly stained them all.
The yardsticks are attached to the wall by using a spacer. I cut up one of the yard sticks at 1 1/2″…then placed them behind the front stick…so it is hidden. I then screwed (must pre-drill to avoid splitting the yardsticks) one to the wall at the very start. Then where the 1st one end and the 2nd one begins I place another spacer, so it would be half under the 1st on and half under the second. Repeat for how long your wall is or the space you want to fill…
I then used these small Mini Metal Hooks to hang them on the yardstick…two for most of them and three for the larger minis so they wouldn’t sag in the middle. When you get the clips they look like this…use a pliers and open the hook a little more so they easily hook on the yardstick. These hooks are also cut for hanging lots of other things like little mittens or ornaments, everyone should have some…
I hope you do not have this little problem I originally had….When the installers put in the controls for my room…they randomly spread them out!!! But for a little money they came back and tucked them all together and out of the way of my “wall”.
The quilts are real easy to put up…take down…and re-arrange…If you are making a “mini wall” you must send me a picture…I will post them all someday!!!
Sorry this took a bit for me top post…I know some of you are “ready”!!!!
have a nice weekend…Lisa
