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I made my first wall hangings and I really didn't have a clue to what I was doing. I put a pocket rod on the back and a dowel in it, but the top of the wall hanging is too droopy. I gave it to my dad for Father's Dad and I was appalled that it looked so bad when I saw it at his house yesterday!!!
You can have any design you want. As long as it's loops!
Does the dowel run across the whole top? Did you spray starch it? Just a couple of thoughts.
The dowel runs across the whole top, but I think it's just too low.
You can have any design you want. As long as it's loops!
Two things I've done are to sew a couple of the little white plastic o-rings on the back and nailing small finish nails onto which to hang them. I've also used regular straight pins hammered through the quilt and into the wall.
A fabric stash is always missing that one fabric needed to finish the quilt on which you're working.
I attach my hanging sleeve right under the binding. As a matter of fact, I baste it on, raw edge of sleeve matching raw edge of wall hanging, then the sleeve gets sewn on to the wall hanging as I sew on the binding. The binding is then hand sewn on. Once completed, I pin the sleeve down so it doesn't move as I whip stitch the bottom of the sleeve onto the wall hanging Maybe you could get it back and sew on a new sleeve on the top of the wall hanging's back.
this is the way i do it as well. if using a string or ribbon on the dowel, though, it will show while hanging... so have to use a coordinated ribbon. otherwise, one has to use nails or pushpins in the wall at each end of the dowelOriginally Posted by sandyms
Nancy in western NY
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The sewn top of the sleeve, especially if it has a pleat, should be slightly below the binding seam so that when the rod is in place, nothing shows on the front.
The Earth without art is just "Eh".
I would try stapling the quilt to the wall. I always hang my wall hangings this way and the staples make such a small hole you can hardly see them. I usually staple in the seam of the binding and they are barely visible. Especially if you have problems with it lying flat. You can staples all 4 sides if necessary.
You could sew a soda tab on the droopy part and use a small nail or hook to attach to wall. I recently did that with an oddly shaped wall hanging and it worked great.
Donna
Thanks for that tip. I would have never thought of a soda tab, on for no traditional square wall hanging that would be perfect!
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