Flying_V_Goddess

I need to learn a good method on how to make a sleeve for a wall hanging. Or some sort of way to effectively hang a quiilt on the wall without driving nails or push pins into it. I'd like to point out that its most likely going to be a fairly large wall hanging (around 2 yards give or take...don't have the measurements worked out yet...also need this for future reference for the Zelda sea map)

I was working on this quilt made out of Kittie band t-shirts for a boyfriend and we broke up so now I don't have a dead line for this huge quilt (going to make it for myself as I LOVE Kittie). Went out with a friend of mine for like a week...we still love/care for each other, but he feels things are too messed up on his end to have a stable relationship right now. At the very least we're still friends.

Anyways, when I showed him the Kittie t-shirts for the quilt he half joked that I should make him one made out of Slipknot shirts so he'd have something cool to hang up on his wall (he LOVE Slipknot). And at work today I remembered that and thought "You know? Why not?" I want to do something awesome for him. Something from the heart that says "I worked hard to make something you'll like because I love you and you're cool". Funny how I end up making things like a month before they should get done. Even funnier because this time I had planned well enough in advance to make a quilt for someone I ended up breaking up with before moving onto this project 35 days before Christmas.

But I just realized that I never done a sleeve for a wall hanging. And this is really special. I don't want this nailed to the wall like the store bought blanket that covers his balcony door. So I need some sort of tutorial that will create a wall hanging sleeve that will hold up a fairly large quilt that's easy to understand. Extra points if its in video format. ;)

Scissor Queen

I cut my hanging sleeve about 6 inches wide by about two inches shorter than the width of the wall hanging. I hem each end and then fold in half length wise and pin to the top edge when I add the binding.

To hang without any wall damage get a small brass curtain rod and hang it from two Command hooks.

quilter on the eastern edge

What are Command hooks?

Scissor Queen

I don't know if they have them in Canada or if they call them something else. They have a sticky pad that sticks to the hook and then to the wall. When you want to take the hook down you just pull on the tab on the bottom of the pad and it stretches out and breaks the sticky and comes off totally clean.

ptquilts

when you sew the sleeve to the quilt, let it pooch out a little (don't sew it flat). That way the rod will make a bump in the sleeve instead of the quilt, and the quilt will hang straight down.

quilter on the eastern edge

You mean like the 3M hangers? I know what they are - I just didn't realize they were called Command hooks. Thanks for the explanation.

Katrine

Here are sleeve methods.
For a large quilt, make two separate "tubes" so you can have another wall support in the middle as well as each end to cope with the weight.
http://quilting.about.com/od/decorat...ilt_sleeve.htm

Borntohandquilt

Maybe that helps:

http://www.quilts.com/sleeeves.pdf

gale

Here's a good tutorial.
http://sunshowerquilts.blogspot.com/...ng-sleeve.html

Flying_V_Goddess

I wasn't completely understnading the tuts so I tried finding a video and got this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2w3QPfNGM4. I get this one, but this how-to looks different from the ones you guys showed me. Is this just another way of doing the same thing or are you looking at it and going "What is she doing???"