Make Wall Hanging Sleeve

Adding a hanging sleeve may take a few more minutes but it will be worth it in the long run.

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. Measure and cut the sleeve fabric to size for your fabric art. Hanging sleeves are also used to mount quilts at shows and competitions.

Step by steps instructions for adding a new sleeve. Aqs has the leading hardware for hanging quilts at our shows which may be different than some contestants have used in the past. The finished size of my wall hanging is 8 x 15. A dowel or a rod or a flat board is slipped through the tube then suspended from nails or screws on the wall.

The cut size. Larger quilts require a hanging sleeve attached to the back to accommodate a wooden dowel or decorative curtain rod. For a larger wall hanging make the sleeve 9 inches long. Now since my wall hanging is small and a 4 wide sleeve is quite unnecessary i ve cut my strip to 8 x 5 8 for the width of the wall hanging and 5 instead of 8 1 2 which is what you would need to make a 4 wide sleeve.

The finished sleeve will be less than half of the cut size.