Make your small quilts into art with this quick and easy way to hang a small quilt (36″ wide or less) on your wall! Many quilt patterns include a wall hanging or pillow size, or your could make one block of your favorite quilt and turn it into a “wall quilt”.

What you need:

• small quilt (36″ wide or less) that has been pieced and quilted but NOT bound (I’m using my Sunset Hike quilt in the wall hanging size.)
• binding
• (2) 5″ x 5″ pieces of fabric (any color, you will not see this from the front)
• (1) wooden yard stick (I buy these at my local hardware store for a couple dollars, but you can also get a 12 pack on Amazon)
• Command brand picture hanging strips (find those here or at your local Hobby Lobby, hardware store, etc.)

Other basic sewing items needed: sewing machine, iron, sewing clips or pins, thread, needles, scissors, etc. You will also need a way to cut your yard stick to the correct length.

1. Fold each of the 5″ x 5″ fabric pieces in half diagonally and press along the crease. These are now your “corner pockets”.

2. Place the corner pockets on each of the back of the top two corners of the quilt. Align the raw edges of the corner pockets with the raw edges of the quilt corners. Clip or pin in place. (This is where the stick will tuck in to hold the quilt.)

3. Bind your quilt as usual, just be sure to sandwich the corner pockets between your binding and your quilt as you sew.

4. Measure your yard stick from the inside of the seam line of the pocket to the other inside seam line of the pocket. Cut your yardstick to this measurement. It should fit snuggly inside the pockets without pulling on the quilt. (My husband uses a small electric saw to cut my yardsticks, but you can use any saw and most hardware stores will cut sticks and wood for you for free if you purchase them there.)

5. Slide the yard stick into the pockets.

6. Make pairs of command strips. I usually use 2 pairs, 4 strips total. Stick the “velcro” sides of the pairs together. Take the plastic protective film off one side of each pair and stick onto the yard stick.

7. Take the plastic, protective film off the strips that are not stuck to the yard stick. Pick up the quilt and press against the wall where you would like to display it while applying pressure to where the Command strips are at.

There you go, your quilt is now up on the wall and on display! What a wonderful way to bring design and texture into your home.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to take your quilt off of the wall when you’re done displaying it and if the Command strips ruin the wall when you take them down.

To take it down, I first slip the quilt off of the yardstick. Then I pull on the yardstick carefully to separate the command strips from each other. From there you simply pull the tabs on the Command strips as shown in the directions on the box and they come off the wall very easily. I use these to hang quilts and other frames in my house and they have never left a mark!