This afternoon Larry (with a wee bit of help from me) hung the 'Stitch in Time' wall hanging I finished July 7. It's hanging from a decorative oak quilt hanger my brother gave me a few years ago.
The quilt measures 36.5" x 50" and is made from a panel by Rosiland Solomon. I got it at Quilts, Etc., a nice little quilt shop in Sour Lake, Texas, on the 20th of February. We didn't stop there to get something for me, but, as usual when Larry is along, he spotted it and thought I just had to have it.
It's now hanging in the upstairs landing opposite the door to my quilting studio. In the third-to-last photo, you can see the door to my little office on the left; that's where my roll-top desk is, and where I've been doing all the scanning of my old albums of late. The door straight ahead opens into the little library (seen in the final picture). There are a couple of treadle sewing machines on the landing.
Way back in July, Larry had rummaged up a couple of heavy-duty screws especially for the type of plaster walls we have in this old farmhouse, but the heads were too big for the notches in the oak quilt hanger. Today he ground them down, then found a thick, heavy board to rest cattycornered across the L-shaped banister for him to stand on. His perch on that board high above the staircase made my hair stand straight up on end, and I wondered what on earth ailed me, to think I needed to hang that quilt there.
But we got it done with no casualties, and thar she hangs. I might re-steam it a bit, if I get a speck o' 'want-to' one o' these days. I think I can just reach the side of the quilt that needs it the most. Maybe.
