he measured the height to place the hook by holding the dowel up against the tree...it was a twelve foot length...tho hard so see in the photo there is a pulley hanging from the hook...directly opposite in another tree is an identical hook and pulley...he then threaded the soft nylon rope thru the pulley...
the ends of the dowel both have eye hooks in them...one end of the rope has a snap attached and the other end hangs free...
another view of the dowel and snap
the quilt hangs from a shower curtain hook to which he added cable which was joined using a little black do ma hickey...the name of which escapes him...i think the quilt would hang from a smaller dowel of one inch but he thought not and i let him do it his way cuz he knows about things i have no idea about...
hanging quilt...
at about chest height is a hook...i attached the hooks to the quilt...thread it over the dowel and raise each end to the height i want and then tie the rope around this hook with a half hitch or some kind of knot only a girl knows how to tie (much to the chagrin of men)(who often ask what is that)
supply list
1) one handy man
2) 12 feet of dowel
3) 48 feet of soft nylon rope
4) 2 snaps
5) 4 large hooks
6) 2 pulleys
7) 2 small eye hooks
8) a ladder
9) about 2 hours of time
10) 2 trees
11) 7 curtain hooks
12) cable several feet
13) 7 black do ma hickeys
sky horses hanging from the set-up...you can just see the dowel in the upper part of the photo