5 x 5 batik panels question

OOOhhh!!! I know! I saw the coolest quilts using something like that! Both had small quilts (completely finished) and they were all attached to each other but spaced an inch or so apart in all directions. One I saw used a ribbon to hold the small quilts together using 9 small quilts- three rows wide and three rows high- with ribbons tacked to the back of the little quilts to hold them in formation. Or the ribbon could be tacked to each corner of each little quilt and tied in bows to join them together. Then hang on a wall.

Another had an fabric vine all made from cloth (you could do something like wrap raw edge brown strips of fabric around a cord for the vine) that went meandering between the small quilts with the vine and some leaves appliqued to the edges of the small quilts to hold them together in formation but still spaced apart. More work than using the ribbons between the quilts, but major cool with the vine! Then you hang the whole shebang on the wall with the wall showing thru where the spaces between the small quilts are.

Or use maybe three of them with them tacked vertically to a wide ribbon or strip of fabric like a bell pull and then mounted on the wall.

You could also put them all in a shadow box frame, on a cork board, tacked on a whole cloth quilt and then hang the whole cloth on the wall. Make pot holders (nah! that would wear them out!). Get a doll house with lots of bedrooms and use them for bed quilts Put them in individual frames and line them up on a shelf or a grouping on a wall or on top of your kitchen cabinets- if you have a space there. Or one on each cabinet door???

Can I stop now??? LOL

One way of hanging small quiltlets is to sew rings on the back top corners. those rings (like small plastic rings about a half inch in diameter???) can go over even push pins or such.

Pati, > I got my batik panels, and they are adorable! I'd like to make them up

One thing I have done Karen, with a very narrow piece, is'sew' a very fine piece of dowel rod to the top back, make a thread loop just below the dowel (right in the centre of course!), and then it will hang perfectly OK from a nail. I sewed the dowel rod in place by using strong thread and sewing round and round it, catching the back of the quiltlet each time, from one end to the other. Time taken - couple of minutes!! and mine was 12" wide! . In message , "Karen, Queen of Squishies" writes

I wouldn't suggest any such thing. Terrible waste. In the weather you're getting at the moment in the US, thousands of hamsters must be shivering.

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GRIN!

You're absolutely right on that!

Karen, Queen of Squishies