I wanted an easy way to hang my quilted landscapes so that I could change them out whenever I wanted. Here's what I came up with. The pieces can be hung just with needles. The secret is the kind of material that's used for the covered board.
Three years ago, I built a table for making window treatments. A window treatment table has to be pinnable. They sell a special material for this, much like cork, but lightweight. I had some pieces left, so I cut one (well, two actually) and covered it with lining material. The art pieces I'm hanging are lightweight; I just put the strip up on the wall with velcro.
Yesterday I was at Home Depot and saw that they had 2' square pieces of a similar material, basically drywall board, for $3.99. This would work because it's easy to cut and pretty light-weight and certainly pinnable.
If you want to hang heavier quilts on a strip like this, make it longer (mine are about 24") or use multiple pieces across; and find the studs and put in screws to hold your board.
I had mine up in an hour and have been very pleased with them.
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