Another hangup!

The other day, DH was not happy .... he was complaining .... the entrance looked just too bare.  The entrance needed some oomph.   It is a huge entrance (for us, anyway) and DH suggested a quilt would do the trick.  Not a problem.  Which quilt should we hang up?  Since it was his idea, he got to pick the quilt.  He wanted my Blazing Star quilt.  So, out to Home Depot we went to buy the pole and brackets (we are using a 10ft. long 1/2" electrical conduit pipe and 3/4" pipe brackets that he cut in half with a special hand metal cutting saw) to hold the pole up (3 brackets were needed).  Now, I tell you this was a c. h. o. r. e.  See the ladder?  That is how we have to hang up this quilt; plus another step ladder that is on the landing.  I'm nearly 6' tall and the quilt measures 98" long and you can see how much height there is above my head.  Someone had to climb up that ladder and it wasn't me!  :o)

My Blazing Star quilt is my first big quilt that I ever made.  Even back then (24 yrs. ago), I was playing around with the original pattern by making it my own.  See the outer star borders?  Yep, that is how I changed this pattern to make it into a good bed size quilt.  The quilt is wonky, to say the least, and a good bit of masking tape is helping to keep it straight and hanging correctly on the wall.

Since my quilt didn't have a sleeve and DH couldn't wait for me to sew a sleeve onto the back, we used curtain rings that have clips to hold the quilt up.  The quilt would look better with a sleeve; but there is no hurry to get that ladder out and take the quilt down and fix it.  As I said, this was a c.h.o.r.e.  Can you guess that this quilt will be hanging here for a while?

 Here is another view of how it looks coming from the living room.

 This view is from our front door and of course, Miss Ashes had to get into the photo!  :o)

Wonky or not .... I'm proud to display this old quilt of mine and it sure makes an entrance! 

Have a great day, eh!