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Attaching a Hanging Sleeve to a Mini Quilt Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on January 29, 2017

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

00:20

Description

A hanging sleeve attached to your mini quilt is a nice finishing touch that will allow you to display it properly.

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Materials

Fabric the width of your quilt - depth will vary depending upon the diameter of the rod you will be using. Measuring around your hanging rod and adding a couple of inches should give you the required depth of your hanging sleeve

Sewing thread

Ruler

Quilt pins

Hand sewing needle

Ackfeld Manufacturing Quilt frame or Hanger

Or any quilt dowel or hanging rod

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

The width and depth of the hanging sleeve will vary based upon the size of the quilt and hanging rod that you will be using. The directions here are written for the Mini Quilt and wall hanging projects.

Step 1:

Cut a strip of material the width of the quilt, in this case 11 ½” by 3”. Fold the short ends in twice ¼” and press to make a hem on each end.

Step 2:

Edge stitch down each end to hem.

Step 3:

Fold wrong sides together (the turned in hem is the wrong side) and press to obtain a center crease.

Step 4:

Open up the sleeve and fold the side edges into the center crease and press.

Step 5:

Open up the sleeve again, align the raw edges, wrong sides together, and stitch with an approximate ¼” to 3/8” seam. Note the creases are on the top side of the sleeve. The seam is on the outside of the sleeve, but will be placed against the quilt so it will not show.

Step 6:

Sewing the sleeve straight onto the quilt will insure that you quilt will hang straight in the frame or on the wall. Center the sleeve on the quilt; pin a side crease to the quilt ½” below the top edge of the quilt.

Step 7:

When your sleeve is pinned into place it will look like this.

Step 8:

Whip stitch the top edge of the sleeve to the quilt back.

Step 9:

Ignoring the center crease, find the opposite side crease and pin it to the quilt back.

Step 10:

Whip stitch the bottom layer of the end of the sleeve, across the bottom of the sleeve and across the bottom layer of the other end of the sleeve.

Step 11:

As you can see this gives your hanging sleeve enough play in it to insert a rod or dowel. If using a dowel to hang the quilt on the wall just insert the dowel from one end through the other of the hanging sleeve.

Step 12:

The Ackfeld Manufacturing 12” x 14” quilt frame that we have been making so many of these mini quilts for has a split rod down from the top of the frame.

Step 13:

Insert one end of the quilt sleeve onto the split rod and push the whole quilt over to that side.

Step 14:

When you have enough of the quilt pushed to one side you can then feed the sleeve into the second side of the rod.

Step 15:

Smooth out the quilt over the whole rod.

Step 16:

Center your mini quilt in the frame and enjoy, knowing that it will be easy to take off the fame and replace with another mini quilt for the next occasion!

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

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