How to hang small pieces?
Terry Grant, of And Sew It Goes, asked how others have dealt with small works. After I typed my reply, I though it might make a good post here and then I could illustrate it, too! I have:
Hung them on a small dowel or slat, like I did with my Straight and Narrow piece (10 inches wide by 50 something long), Brooks and Branches (sold):
stretched cloth over stretcher bars, then stitched the quilt to the cloth
Painted a “gallery wrap” canvas (the ones with the staples on the back, not the sides) to continue the colors / theme of the quiltlet, then stitched the quilt to the canvas ..here are several: Moonlight (sold), Hot August Night–Plum, Man, and Red Summer Roses,
Purchased 1/4″ thick plexiglass cut to size, *very carefully* drilled small holes for hanging and stitching on, and stitched the piece to float on top of the plexi. This photo is of the quilt only….the picture of it on plexi is awful. The plexiglas extends about 3 inches on all sides. The mint color you see is a Photoshop background color so it blends onto my web page.
Fused fabric to timtex that works with the piece for Red Sea Nautilus (sold) and stitched the piece to that.
Mounted pieces to black foam core (stitched) and framed them in inexpensive silver frames (did that with the At Anchor postcards).
It depends on the pieces….If I were to wrap stretcher bars again, I’d probably choose a heavy weight fabric as you did, or do muslin, then batting, then cloth…I don’t like the way the black cotton wraps over the bars…looks lumpy.
I really like the plexi, but it words better with a contemporary or abstract style, which I don’t do too often.
For the gallery wrap canvases, I (sigh) prefer the look of the 2″-ish deep canvases, not the regular depth, and cost twice as much as the “regular” ones.
So what do the rest of you do?