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How to Canvas a Quilt

First cut 2.5″ strip (long enough to go all the way around) and begin sewing it to quilt edge with end folded as shown below. The wood I used for the frame is 1″ x 2″ furring strips. Thicker wood would obviously need a wider strip.

Sew to .25″ (or whatever your seam allowance is) of the corner…

and turn…

Yes the corner will be funky, try not to sew any pleats into it. Here it is done.

A close up of the corner. Don’t clip it as it will be pulled taut around a wooden corner and we don’t want it to rip.

Turn it inside out…

And pull evenly around a frame that you’ve made to fit. Build frame according to finished size of quilt (not including strips) and you will pull the quilt top ever so slightly around frame edge so as not to see strips from the front. I used tacks but someone mentioned staples which sounds easier on the thumbs for sure. Voila!

This piece is much smaller than the last one, about 6″ x 17″. Usually there is (in my mind) a specific right side up to a piece but not with this one. I like it any way, horizontal, vertical, dark up or down. Colors are silk and grey to white is Kona.

See ya.

MODERN

March 16, 2013

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two tops

First top is inspired completely by b perrino. Love her work. She did one of these in orange and white. I added blue and grey but think I like her version better. Am quilting this one today, lots of vertical lines. Quick since its baby size.

Have been searching for the perfect Kona orange and so have a short stack of oranges for no particular reason. Paired it with some blue and white. Love how it turned out. Initially was only using white but didn’t have enough to make it rectangular and so added grey and am glad I did!

I sewed one more top that day but haven’t photographed it yet. Fun day of sewing. Tell me, isn’t it weird how much more you can tell that the blue is blue next to the grey as opposed to the white?

MODERN

March 16, 2013

Quilt Canvased

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.