Larger quilts require a hanging sleeve attached to the back to accommodate a wooden dowel or decorative curtain rod.
Make wall hanging sleeve.
Smaller quilts can be hung with purchased clips sewn on tabs or pins applied to the corners.
A quilt hanging sleeve can be permanent or temporary and it can be sewn on after or at the same time you apply binding 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.
Hanging sleeves are also used to mount quilts at shows and competitions.
For a larger wall hanging make the sleeve 9 inches long.
This new system requires some give in the sleeve on the quilt so the rod can slip over the hanging hook properly.
Step by step hanging sleeve instructions.
The finished size of my wall hanging is 8 x 15.
Measure and cut the sleeve fabric to size for your fabric art.
Step by steps instructions for adding a new sleeve.
A hanging sleeve is a fabric tube sewn to the back of a quilt to make it possible to hang the quilt on the wall.
The cut size.
The finished sleeve will be less than half of the cut size.
Aqs has the leading hardware for hanging quilts at our shows which may be different than some contestants have used in the past.