{"id":8617,"date":"2024-05-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2024-05-13T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:14:20","slug":"hanging-sleeve-instructions-for-large-rectangular-fabric-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=8617","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Sleeve Instructions For Large, Rectangular, Fabric Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was a little surprised a while ago when the conversation in a group I belong to made it clear that several people had never seen the memo about how to construct a hanging sleeve with a bit of ease to hold the hanging rod or wood or metal slat, so that the work hangs absolutely flat against the wall without any ridge appearing along the top. The reason for doing this is that in time every ridge will gather dust, which can be distracting, and the ideal hanging arrangement for a wall quilt also has absolutely nothing protruding from the sides to distract the viewer’s attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it’s easy to construct this kind of sleeve I’m talking about, I do it automatically, and it’s decades since I learned it by watching a demo at a Front Range Contemporary Quilters meeting 30+ years ago. So when I blithely offered to ‘send you some diagrams’ this took a bit more work than I expected \ud83d\ude42 The directions had to be carefully worded, and <\/em>in the end, rather than hand-draw some diagrams, I made up a mock sleeve and photographed each stage of the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directions for a ‘D’ shaped hanging sleeve for art quilts<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On really wide (say 2m+ ) or heavy quilts, you might judge it best to make two or even three sections rather than just one long one, so that holes to go over a wall fitting can keep the hanging rod\/slat straight, prevent it sagging in the middle \u2013 which wooden rods\/slats might do, but metal rods won\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Cut the width of the sleeve no wider than the edge-to-edge width of the finished quilt, and hem those two ends, so that the finished width is about an inch or 2cm in from each side edge, ie at least 2 inches\/ 4 cm less than the finished over all width of the quilt, edge to edge.\u00a0\u00a0 The size<\/strong> or depth of the sleeve is usually required to be 4\u201d \u2013 so measure twice that (8\u201d) plus 1\u201d inch \u2013 ie cut a piece of fabric 9″ X the width-of-your-fabric long. \u00a0\u00a0For a 5\u201d sleeve cut 10\u201d+1\u201d= 11\u201d X required quilt width;\u00a0 for a 3\u00bd \u201d sleeve cut 7+1= 8\u201d X quilt width, and so on.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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