Finally finished this piece for my studio wall. Took a lot of time with this one due to all the thinking. Wasn’t willing to finish it until I figured it all out. I wanted it to hang well, solidly like a painting would. A sleeve on the back wouldn’t be good enough. So I decided on a frame to wrap the quilt around like a canvas. It was super easy, much easier than all my procrastinating warranted.
The back…
I used furring strips ($1.27 at Lowe’s) that easily allowed tacks to be pushed in. I know that’s not the proper use of L brackets but use what you have right? And they served the purpose. It’s a solid but lightweight frame. I think it was a 2.5″ strip of dark grey that I sewed around the quilt edge to wrap around the 62″ x 24″ wood frame.
Love, love how it turned out. One of those things where I wished I’d have tried it sooner.
This last one shows a corner.
I will definitely be doing this again, even on smaller pieces. It looks so good!
It. looks fabulous!!!!!! I LOVE It!!!!!
That is really stunning! Can’t wait to try some of that myself.
NIce work, looks professional. Lizzie
Great job Virginia! Good job on the framing as well. I did something similar many moons ago but my framing job was simply wrapping my work around an artist frame.
Love all your colors.
Interesting! I’ve been doing kid’s art (working with a 2nd grade class) and putting it on canvas without quilting on it (even though I’ve quilted for 22 yrs.). I was worried if I did quilting it would be very hard to stretch it to the exact size of the canvas and going around the corners with the quilt sandwich would have been too bulky, but somehow you added the fabric on and it stretched perfectly. Any tips on how you got it so perfect?
I finished the quilt and made the frame to fit it. The fabric that goes around the wood is just a single piece, not folded and as you see in the photo the raw edge is left that way.
BTW, Your work is absolutely stunning!!!
Marvelous piece! It looks stunning!
Absolutely love this!!!! It looks so good. I have done this with little pieces over my canvas frames but never built the frame from scratch. You did a great job! Cannot wait to see the others that are coming in the future.