I made this quilt for my sister in laws 50th a while back. She wants to hang it on the wall and has asked if I can add some tabs for a rod to go through. I haven't done this before and I was wondering if anyone in blogland can point me in the direction of a tutorial or share the process. Thankyou xx
You could make a sleeve to put the rod through.
ReplyDeletecut a 3 inch strip of fabric as long as your quilt, minus 1 inch, fold 1/2inch under on each side, and stitch down. then fold under 1/2 on both sides length wise and iron to set. centre sleeve under the binding with fold butting against sewn down binding side, sew down. then do same to the otherside.
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Hi Laurel,
ReplyDeleteIt is easier to add a keeper before the binding has been attached (it gets sewn in when attaching the binding strip), but if you do not want to re-do the binding again you can make a tube a bit less that the length of the quilt, turn it through so that raw edges are on the inside and then hand stitch it along both sides using a small whipped stitch catching the fold of the keeper and the backing fabric. Hope this helps.