How To Finish A Wall Hanging Quilt

Hanging and displaying wall quilts.

How to finish a wall hanging quilt.

This quilted wall hanging is designed for a beginner at quilting and uses a traditional nine patch design. Dowel rod with pocket one option is to thread a dowel rod through a pocket or sleeve on the top of your quilt back. How to hang your mini quilt. You re in the home stretch.

Stitch black and white strips together lengthwise. By marilyn ohio marilyn asks. When you make a quilted wall hanging one thing you need to decide on is how you will hang the quilt on the wall. They re colorful and inspiring and they help muffle acoustics to prevent noise from carrying from room to room.

These clips fasten onto the edge of the quilt and get mounted on a nail in the wall. While a wide variety of patterns are available a simple wall hanging is a good choice if you are just learning to quilt. Use quilt hanging clips. They are good to use if your quilt doesn t have a hanging sleeve.

Quilts make exquisite wall hangings after all. To finish the quilt. Turn and cut into fourteen 11 4 inch sections. Piece everything together and add a border to create a wall hanging you can be proud of.

I have a 36 square embroidered quilt top all one piece of cotton fabric. Stitch sections together alternating colors to create checkerboard. This lets you hang the quilt by the rod and then if you want to take it down and store it for another season simply remove the dowel before folding the quilt. Mostly though people hang quilts because they love the look and feel that these personalized pieces of art bring to a room.