Although the fat envelope won't materialize in my mailbox until next week sometime, a little email birdy told me that "Needleturning at Sunrise" has been accepted into "Considering Quilts '06" at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. Now all I have to do is figure out how to mount or display the little thing. It's only about 14"x11" and I have never had a piece this small on display. Somehow, sleeves and rods don't seem to be the thing. Time to ask some experts.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Southbound
Although the fat envelope won't materialize in my mailbox until next week sometime, a little email birdy told me that "Needleturning at Sunrise" has been accepted into "Considering Quilts '06" at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. Now all I have to do is figure out how to mount or display the little thing. It's only about 14"x11" and I have never had a piece this small on display. Somehow, sleeves and rods don't seem to be the thing. Time to ask some experts.
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Congrats Deb!
Maybe if you had a piece of black mat board or foam core cut a little larger and mounted it to that and framed it? Like the way Sonji does her bundles.
I have done small quilts two ways.
1. Stretch black canvas (or white if you prefer) on a canvas stretcher frame just slightly larger than your piece and attach the piece to the front. I sew each corner, from the back, just catching the back and into the batting.
2. I have cut nice bamboo rods (buy at garden center or Pier 1) and attached to top and bottom of the piece, so the rods show. I usually use some nice perl cotton to wrap around the rod and stitch into the quilt. This works nicely for nice simple work and gives it a bit more presence and finish. I used a square dowel, painted, instead of bamboo on one piece that needed a crisper something. I have also drilled holes in the rods and used a bead to hold the perl cotton at the top of the hole, run the thread through the hole and into the quilt.
Congrats! I was wondering about the same kind of thing. 4" sleeves seem so silly on smaller pieces, don't they?
This is lovely. I like the way the colours seem to float on the background.
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