How To Make A Patchwork Wall Hanging

Add color and visual interest to your walls with a quilt.

How to make a patchwork wall hanging.

Quilts are labors of love often telling the story of an ancestor or family member. Three lemons art quilt by paula prass. Bust your stash with a quick and easy patchwork wall hanging that you can finish in a weekend. Attach the fabric to the wood.

Art quilt wall hangings. Download this ebook to learn to make wall hanging quilts like the pros. Make this pretty patchwork wall hanging no piecing required. Wash and iron all of your fabrics.

Fused applique makes this a perfect project for beginners. Mix and match patterns and prints or keep things simple with a limited palette. Assemble sections 1 and 2. From cat background cut one 81 4 x 71 4 inch rectangle.

Paula used her painting experience to create this still life fabric wall hanging from an inspiration photo. Match up 3 pairs of squares with right sides. Find complete detailed instructions in the materials tab. Pre washing fabric will prevent unpleasant surprises when the final quilt is laundered.

This part is a little fiddly because you want your panel to hang straight and even. One of the simplest ways to hang a quilted wall hanging is to attach tabs to the back. Be careful not to stretch the fabric as you work and take care to keep it level. Going in small sections glue the top two inches of the top of the panel to the back of top board.

How to make a quilted wall hanging. Displaying a homemade quilt on a wall is one way to share your work with everyone. In this short project tutorial designer betz white shows you how to bring it together using fused fabrics wool felt simple machine stitching and hand stitched accents. Use a rotary cutter mat and ruler or scissors to cut nine 9 1 2 inch by 9 1 2 inch squares to create a 27 inch by 27 inch.

From fence background cut one 63 4. Cut six 41 4 inch squares from patchwork fabrics. You can insert a piece of wooden doweling through the tabs for the actual hanging. Once you ve picked your fabric things really start to speed up simple fusing and topstitched wool felt strips add a quilted look no piecing required so even if you re not super confident in your quilting skills you can definitely pull off.