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Hiya Jan

Do you have the Fons and Porter Quilter's Complete Guide? There is a section in that on how to make a hanging sleeve. Otherwise you can just make a tube about 2" less wide than your wallhanging and stitch it to the back of the quilt. That's the easy way - I can make it sound a lot more complicated if you like!

heres the google result page with a whole mess of links on making a quilt sleeve.

at the houston show yesterday the really big/long quilts had to have two sleeves, one in usual place, one about a foot down from the top. they'd use the lower one and fold the excess over the back of the rod inside the sleeve to hang it so it wasnt puddling on the floor. hope this helps, jeanne currently in Katy, TX :)

Boca Jan wrote:

Thanks Sharon. I subscribe to the simpler the better.

Now that I know it is called a sleeve, I am on my way!

Eh, I just used thumb tacks on my last one. Gold ones

Cindy

If the WH doesn't hang perfectly to suit you, I've seen some that have an additional sleeve just above the bottom edge. A dowel or piece of yardstick is slipped inside. Seems to control the tendency to misbehave. Polly

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Thanks Polly. This is just a small wall hanging I made in my pp class.

Well, it would wouldn't it? >g<

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Decide first what you want to hang it on (flat wood slat or round rod). If you use a thick round rod, it helps to give the sleeve a bit of ease so the rod has someplace to go.

The wood slat, about 3/8" thick, you can buy at a DIY store and have them cut to the right length, about 1.5" shorter than the quilt width. Make a fabric tube just long enough to cover the slat with about a half inch sticking out at each end. Drill a hole at each end of the slat for your hanging wire (or fishing line). Or for a small hanging, you might be able to just place the slat, inside the sleeve, over 2 nails. Roberta in D

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Absolutely!