Hanging Sleeve
Pinning and Machine-sew Binding

Plus, an alternative, easy way to hang
a small, lightweight wallhanging**
A hanging sleeve on back of quilt enables you to insert a stick (thin moulding bought at Home Improvement store). Stick in sleeve will then rest on nails in wall to hang the quilt.

For sleeve, I use a 2" width of fabric (any fabric) cut the measurement of the width of the quilt.

Clean-finish one long end of the sleeve.
I use a Narrow hem finish or serge-finish to "clean finish" one long edge of binding.
*Narrow hem finish--I have a special "narrow hem" foot for my machine that turns under a very narrow hem and makes this job easy.  A hem done this way usually "ripples". Steam-press to get rid of ripples.
*Or serge-finish one long edge of strip, using the narrow-rolled hem stitch on your serger.

And, yes, you can probably "pink" to clean-finish...I've done that, too.
1) Fold under 3/4" at one end of sleeve, pin this sleeve to back of quilt, at top, placing the fold 3/4" away from raw edge of quilt and lining up top raw edge of strip and top raw edge of quilt. Pin all along top, to hold the sleeve in place.  When you come to the other end of strip, fold end under, so that the fold is 3/4" away from raw edge of quilt.
From right side of quilt, sewing through the previous line of stitching that holds the binding on, sew the strip on, backstitching at beginning and end of seamline.		 2) Hand-sew the clean-finish edge of sleeve to quilt backing, being careful that stitches do not go through to right side of quilt. Part of sleeve is pinned and part is being hand-sewn, in pic above.


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Fig. 2
3) Turn binding to wrong side of quilt, pinning it in place. Fig. 1shows the right side of quilt with binding pinned. Fig.2 is the wrong side, showing how the corner is turned.

From right side of quilt, stitch-in-the-ditch to apply the binding, removing pins as you come to them. I like to use long quilter's pins, because I can remove them easily and also can use the point of the pin to guide along with the sewing. I generally use invisible thread for stitching-in-the-ditch when sewing on binding.

4) Wrong side of quilt -- sleeve has been hand-sewn on the clean-finish edge, binding has been sewn on and stick is being inserted into sleeve. Stick should be cut the same length as sleeve. I cut 2 slits in sleeve fabric in exactly the same position as the nails on wall, where I am going to hang the quilt. Stick in sleeve will rest on the nails 5) Wrong side of quilt -- another option to hang a small quilt is to put a couple of safety pins at top. Make sure the pins are the same size and kind and the same distance from the top of the quilt, otherwise, quilt will hang crooked. I pin the safety pins into the binding (don't go through to the right side), right above the stitching line.
Hook these 2 pins on 2 nails in wall.

**this is easy, alternative way

I always hang quilts, large or small, from 2 nails in wall.
Quilt will hang better and weight will be distributed.

General Directions

The Quilt Sandwich

Measuring Quilt for Borders

Binding the Quilt

Hanging
Sleeve

AnotherPat's General Directions are methods that I have used, successfully, over the years.  They are shortcuts and/or tips.  The directions should not be used when making a quilt for a Quilt Show.  Quilt Show entries require specific directions and vary from entry to entry.
Hope you can find a tip or two which will make the process go a little faster --- so that you can have more time to make more quilts...Pat Tribbey

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This page created on August 26, 1999 by Pat Tribbey
This page updated on March 4, 2002