First a few updates.
I recently found this quilt backing on eBay. I don’t know anything about the company that produced this but it is a nice quality fabric, and might even use it for a whole cloth quilt top, rather than a backing.
I said I would post a picture of the flowers from class last night so here it is.
Here are some update pictures of the hand quilted whole cloth quilt…. (click to enlarge)
And now for storage. One of the easiest ways to store quilts is to put them on a bed. If you have a spare bed it is perfect. Here is my “quilt storage bed”
and here are some of the quilts that are stored on the bed (click to enlarge)
Happy Quilting
Tim
You are right about the bed storage idea, one of our spare beds has 62 quilts o it. Plus a sheet on top of the top one because a certain cat sees that pile of quilts as heaven and can’t resist sleeping on them.
62!…wow thats a lot o quilts!!
Love your quilt storage bed–just one goodie after another! I now have two beds that are almost always free, so I have room to do that–right now, they are folded or hanging over a quilt rack. I read something about using pool noodles to roll quilts on (a Georgia quilt show was giving guidelines on how these would be accepted). Interesting, but where would you keep the noodles?
I cant imagine what I would do with a noodle full of quilts…I think a bed is a lot easier
good storage and I have done it but it makes me sad to cover them up-sometimes I wonder why I have so many? I try to rotate- leaving them out to look at……but time slips by and they don’t get seen often enough
I do like to rotate them so that there is a different one on top periodically……but at least when on the bed they dont get fold marks
Now I’m feeling deprived, as I only have three quilts on the guest bed! One tip I was given years ago is that when you fold quilts, fold them right side out, so that you don’t get sharp creases on the right side of the quilt.
I have also heard that it is better to fold on the bias
I hadn’t heard about folding on the bias. The other tip is to regularly refold the quilts, so that the folds don’t set in the fabric.
Now you need to put a pea under them and find a princess and see if she notices!! Lovely quilts Tim.
I hadn’t thought of that!….Great idea
A beautiful eclectic array of quilts, Tim. Thanks for the viewing! I like to “store” my quilts that way too. Woe betide when someone comes to stay in the summer!
that is the only problem with storing them like that…..they have to be moved…..but then I get a chance to rotate them