{"id":30,"date":"2008-02-20T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-02-20T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T05:04:53","slug":"adding-bottom-weights-to-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Adding metal weights to a wallhanging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol Scheps is a quilt maker who lives in a nearby town. She makes beautiful wall hangings that she primarily sells at various galleries throughout the country. Her quilts hang perfectly on the wall. She explained that she adds a bottom sleeve to her quilts and inserts a flat metal rod, a similar flatness and weight as a metal yardstick, to weight the bottom of the quilt down.<\/p>\n

I have made bottom sleeves, but I’ve only put wooden slats in them, and I only included them when exhibiting at a show requiring a hanging device. The wood is either very thin with not much weight or thick which creates a little bulge on the bottom.<\/p>\n

I decided to visit the local Home Depo to see if I could find something metal and flat. The other issues were how I was going to cut the metal and how I could insert it so I could fold the quilt for shipping rather than rolling or putting it into an over-sized box.<\/p>\n

I strolled around and eventually found flat pieces of metal called roof stripes. They seem perfect — inexpensive, like 69 cents or so for a small piece — and sold in a variety of lengths, meaning no need to cut. I bought several lengths to experiment with and silver duct tape to cover the metal to seal off any rough edges.<\/p>\n

Next I decided that rather than adding one long pocket, I’d add separate pockets with space between each. For this quilt, I added three short pockets, each a bit longer than the length of the shorter piece of metal. I left about 1.5″ between each pocket so that I could fold the quilt into thirds to more easily ship. Being that I didn’t want to rods to fall out, I stitched the corners of the pocket down.<\/p>\n

Here’s how I did it:<\/p>\n

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From Home Depo, I purchased silver duct tape and roof strips to add to the quilt bottom.<\/p>\n

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I cut a piece of tape a couple inches longer than length of the metal and placed it half on the metal and half off.<\/p>\n

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I then wrapped the tape over one edge of the metal, cut another piece of tape lengthwise, and repeated the process for the other side of the metal.<\/p>\n

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This left a tail of extra tape on each end of the metal.<\/p>\n

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I folded the edges over and secured them with another piece of tape. which I wrapped around the edge.<\/p>\n

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Both edges are secured with tape. Use your finger to smooth out the bubbles (which you can see above) in the tape.<\/p>\n

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Insert the metal into a pocket.<\/p>\n

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Stitch the edges of the pocket down to secure the metal within the pocket. I found this necessary because I didn’t want the metal falling out when the quilt was unpacked, as I couldn’t be sure that they would be reinserted but I’m sure that metal flying out of the quilt would annoy those who unpack the quilts. I used larger stitches in case I need to remove the metal for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

I recently sent this quilt to a show. It will be interesting to see how the judges react to the metal being stitched into the quilt bottom. If I get any comments, good or bad, on my return sheet, I’ll write a follow-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol Scheps is a quilt maker who lives in a nearby town. She makes beautiful wall hangings that she primarily sells at various galleries throughout the country. Her quilts hang perfectly on the wall. She explained that she adds a bottom sleeve to her quilts and inserts a flat metal rod, a similar flatness and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilt-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}