Christmas WUH Question 2:

Batting depends on how you want it to look, and what you have on hand. If you are adding a lot of weight to the hanging with "stuff" you might want a flat poly batting like Comfortloft to keep the total weight of the wall hanging down a bit. But something like Warm and Natural/White would also work. If you want a more defined, or "trapunto" look, use a puffier batting.

Pati, in Phx

Butterflyw>>> Would you quilt it first?You all said Yes

Don't want puffy as it will have 'lights' (diodes, I think is what they are) with a battery pack on the back. Each candle will be lit. Will have 'strings' of beads, baubles, and possible a coupla 'gifts' under the tree. Has to be 'strong' to hold it all up.

Butterfly (carefully reading ALL suggestions)

Hobbs 80/20. Works for just about everything, won't melt under a hot Glitzer. If you want texture, quilt it and wash it. Then add doodads. Roberta in D

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I which case I would use curtain interlining aka bump. It is a woven product like a very thick flannel. It is designed to maintain its strength and take its own while hanging as part of a curtian. Quilting will give it more not less inherent strength.

Here is a US source:

Lizzy

HMMM -- I was thinking along the same lines -- using a really sturdy window treatment lining instead of regular batting. I assume the piece will be machine quilted -- at least I sure hope so :-). Butterflywings -- if you can't find a drapery lining that is really sturdy, then go with something like canvas or maybe several layers of trigger that have been bonded together with one of the fusibles. How "firm" do you want the finished piece BEFORE you add all the gew-gaws? If you want it REALLY firm, then add a layer or twelve of the stiffest Pellon you can find. Every time you fuse layers together, you add more body and can get something that is fairly stiff. Keep us posted, OK? CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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WUH: wall hanging (Miz Sairey had trouble saying Wall so we shortened it for her into WUH : )

Yes, it'll have alot of bling including 3 battery packs on the back for the lights.

I can't hand quilt/sew anymore so it will all have to be done by machine. Can't sew on buttons or beads--thus the questions on 'gluing' them on.

Thanks for your input.

Butterfly (seriously thinking on taking Miz Pati's offer of hands on help)

This may be the way to go. It will strictly be for a wall as it'll have batteries on the back and light diodes on the front. Can't see even trying to sleep under it :)

Thanks

Butterfly

DS PROMISED to put pixs up as we went along. The gal that is doing the website for us just lost a family member so dates have been postponed once again. She DOES keep her word--just a matter of time.

Butterfly (striving for more patience)

What size is it going to be?

Lizzy

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I've been pondering this conundrum this afternoon.......putting aside the batting questions and all the technical quilting stuff of whom I am probably the LEAST qualified in this entire group to give advise; your mentioning of the three battery packs drag/weight/support/distribution keeps rolling around in my engineering type, gotta be a better way, brain.

You have three battery packs, I've seen these lights you are working with, there is a length of wire from the first light on the string of lights to the battery pack that would give you a pretty good length of "scush" (technical term) to work with. What if you a design an artful "package" of some sort that would go along with your WUH to hold the battery packs which would take a major source of weight, drag, pull off the WUH by hanging separately.

What if you quilted or sewed up a decorative, coordinating package or tastefully appropriate doodad that would hold the battery packs and hang separately from the WUH....only it wouldn't look like it was hanging separately exactly, part of the whole masterful piece of work. If you made a cute package, Christmas tree, puffy Santa or whatever strikes your fancy, that would hold the three battery packs with an easy back opening for battery replacement. Make a couple of tubes of fabric that would come down on either side of "clever battery packs holder" to attach to the rod or whatever you have in the sleeve to hang the WUH. Run the wires from the battery pack through the fabric tubes and in behind (being very clever to hide the wires, maybe through the sleeve) the WUH to appropriate positions for the lights. Most likely you'll have to start at the Battery Pack Hanger Doodad, string the wire of lights through the tubes and then place them before you close up (or not close up, would you actually have to?) the back of the WUH.This would solve the weight/drag/support problem and make it a snap to change batteries and also take the possible wonky drag off the WUH by hanging the battery pack to hang the WUH, instead of trying to make a WUH support the weight of the battery pack and all the bling-bling decorations. Does this make sense to you? Picture the old Victorian gallery pictures hanging from picture rails by heavy ribbons. Only instead of the poofy silk bow at the top you have your "cleverly disguised battery pack". Instead of the ribbon tails attaching to the back side top corners of the picture frame you have fabric tubes (maybe ruched a bit) that attach to the rod in the sleeve of the WUH hiding the wires that lead to the lights in your WUH........anyway, working WITH redistribution of weight is what I'm trying to get across instead of fighting it with more 'layers of support' which will only add more overall drag/weight.

.....'nuther thought.......you said there would possibly be presents under the blinged and gee-gawed WUH tree........what if you hung your WUH by sleeve and rod (traditional way) but had a fabric/felt/furry QI that was the "cleverly disguised battery pack holder" pulling a "ribbon" off a package. The ribbon hiding the wires going to the lights in the WUH. QI would be hung independently of WUH.....see weight distribution/drag/support/etc. explanation above.

Did I explain this in a way to make any sense at all? Val

This is SO NEAT!!!!!!! I can see it worked out all ready. I will put the extra 'ribbons' (for lack of better name) down the back to each pack. It will have a sleeve and instead of being ONE long sleeve it will be in segments: sleeve, ribbon, sleeve, ribbon, sleeve, ribbon, sleeve. That would work PERFECTLY. It would be totally hidden, the wires can stay on the back, and when she needs to change batteries it would be easy peasy to do. I could even 'tack' said ribbons onto the back so they wouldn't flop around.

Thank you. I KNEW there was a reason for my asking RCTQ.

Butterfly (DD knows this has become a RCTQ project as of tonight : )

It never ceases to amaze me the ideas and comments from all corners of this cyber-frame, when someone puts out a call for help/ideas ;)) Simply astounding.

G> This is SO NEAT!!!!!!! I can see it worked out all ready. I will put the

You are welcome to come help me put this together. Get you 'Outta Dodge" for a weekend : )

Butterfly ( the more the merrier)