How To Make A Quilt Onto A Wall Hanging

Center the sleeve along the back of the quilt 1 below the binding with the raw edge seam facing the quilt back basted seam facing you.

How to make a quilt onto a wall hanging.

The sleeve is marked by the red dotted line. Go back to your machine leaving the same straight stitch settings in place since we ll continue to use a basting stitch here 6 0 mm stitch length 2 0 tension. Sew a hanging sleeve to the quilt when you sew the binding the photograph illustrates a hanging sleeve on the back of the tardis quilt. Measure the width of the wall hanging s top edge.

Click here to learn how to make a quilt hanging sleeve. How to make hanging tabs for a quilt wall hanging. Displaying a quilt or any other object elevates it not just literally. A hanging sleeve allows a quilt to hang evenly preventing the stretch that nearly always occurs when you secure the project to a wall with a series of pins or other fasteners.

Make a hanging sleeve. Wall hangings a foot or smaller in width will require two tabs. It invites the viewer to consider the object differently than if it were lying on a table such as a pottery dish in a field such as a rusty. Pinning each block and trying to move them is a hassle and i worry about pins falling off and getting stepped on.

My husband put 2 eye hooks into each door and i hung an indoor outdoor carpet up. I turned my 3 door sliding closet into a design board. Wash and iron all of your fabrics. Pre washing fabric will prevent unpleasant surprises when the final quilt is laundered.

Here s a rear view of a quilt with a hanging sleeve. Another way to make it clear that your quilt is art is simply by hanging it on a wall. How to make a quilted wall hanging. Lay out your rotary mat and position your fabric on the mat.

It transforms it from object to art. There are lots of different ways to hang a sleeved quilt. I m pinning quilt blocks onto it now but i think i m going to hang a flannel sheet on it. Larger wall hangings.