How To Make A Wall Hanging Sleeve

Larger quilts require a hanging sleeve attached to the back to accommodate a wooden dowel or decorative curtain rod.

How to make a wall hanging sleeve.

Aqs has the leading hardware for hanging quilts at our shows which may be different than some contestants have used in the past. A dowel or a rod or a flat board is slipped through the tube then suspended from nails or screws on the wall. 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.

Smaller quilts can be hung with purchased clips sewn on tabs or pins applied to the corners. For a larger wall hanging make the sleeve 9 inches long. The cut size. 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.

On the short ends turn over twice to create a hem and stitch down. Removable sleeve option creating the sleeve s cut and piece if necessary a strip of fabric 9 inches tall and the width of the finished quilt including binding. 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. Make a hanging sleeve.

Another way to hang a quilt on the wall is to sew a fabric tube called a hanging sleeve to the back of the quilt then thread a dowel or a rod through the sleeve to hang the quilt. The finished sleeve will be less than half of the cut size. In this video we show you how to add a hanging sleeve to your quilt is easy. You may still have a primary sleeve at the top.

The finished size of my wall hanging is 8 x 15. Step by step hanging sleeve instructions. Follow these easy guidelines to preparing a hanging slee. This new system requires some give in the sleeve on the quilt so the rod can slip over the hanging hook properly.

Adding a hanging sleeve may take a few more minutes but it will be worth it in the long run. There are lots and lots of other quilt clip hangers for the wall. Hanging sleeves are also used to mount quilts at shows and competitions.