I have a new finish!

I started an applique project a while back. They’re Little Baskets inspired by the ones in When a Cold Wind Blows by blackbird designs.
The book wasn’t in my budget so I drew up my own basket.
I do a few baskets in between doing other things.
I decided to try doing a doll quilt with little baskets. I drew up a little basket and appliqued them to 2.25″ squares. That odd size made the math for the setting triangles a little tricky, but it all worked out.
This one finishes at 13.5″ x 16.5″.

I decided to add triangles to the top corners for holding a dowel for hanging.
Once the top was quilted and the binding was sewn to the top side I cut 3″ squares..then folded them into triangle. Those are then stitched on in the seam allowance of the binding.

Then the binding is turned to the back side and hand stitched as usual.
With these triangles added I can easily slip a little dowel in to hang the little quilt.
The advantage is that I can hang the little quilt with just a tiny finishing nail. The little quilt can easily be taken down and a different little quilt of any size can be hung in it’s place.

The dowels are very inexpensive and no fancy hangers are needed.
I learned this method years ago from a quilting magazine. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the source so I can’t give credit to whomever thought of this. I didn’t know to save the source info, just the method. I had no idea that years later I’d have a computer in my home and would be posting this on a blog?

This isn’t the place that I’ll keep this little quilt hanging. I took a trivet off the kitchen wall and popped the little quilt in it’s place to show how none of the mechanics for hanging the quilt show.
I think this method would be especially good if doing a wall of quilts where you wouldn’t want a bunch of hangers showing?
How do you hang your little quilts?