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. Step by step hanging sleeve instructions. The finished sleeve will be less than half of the cut size. Step by steps instructions for adding a new sleeve.

The finished size of my wall hanging is 8 x 15. Measure and cut the sleeve fabric to size for your fabric art. A dowel or a rod or a flat board is slipped through the tube then suspended from nails or screws on the wall. Aqs has the leading hardware for hanging quilts at our shows which may be different than some contestants have used in the past.

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. 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 cut size. Hanging sleeves are also used to mount quilts at shows and competitions.

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.