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Posted by Melanie Rimmer on February 26, 2008, 3:11 am
My 8-y-o daughter's schoolteacher approached me to ask for my help with
some sewing (I have already been asked to design Joseph's Dreamcoat for
the school production in June - if you want a quiet life, don't let
anyone know you sew!) She and another teacher had seen a patchwork
banner in another school and wanted to emulate it. All of the children
have painted designs on a square of white fabric (they look about a foot
square). She wants me to hem them all, then assemble them into a banner,
but here's the tricky bit - she wants to be able to disassemble it at
the end of the year so each child can take his or her own square home.
She also wants a pocket so it can be hung from a pole. She's not a
sewer, and she was worried about how difficult it would be to add a
pocket (not difficult at all of course) but she wasn't at all concerned
about how to loosely sew hemmed patches together in such a way that they
could be easily disassembled, and still hang nicely as a banner.
All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or
anything like that, because she doesn't want any visual element
interfering with the children's designs. I'm also wondering about
convincing her to allow some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.
Have you ladies got any ideas about this?
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Posted by Lizzy Taylor on February 26, 2008, 5:38 am
Melanie Rimmer wrote:
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> My 8-y-o daughter's schoolteacher approached me to ask for my help with
> some sewing (I have already been asked to design Joseph's Dreamcoat for
> the school production in June - if you want a quiet life, don't let
> anyone know you sew!) She and another teacher had seen a patchwork
> banner in another school and wanted to emulate it. All of the children
> have painted designs on a square of white fabric (they look about a foot
> square). She wants me to hem them all, then assemble them into a banner,
> but here's the tricky bit - she wants to be able to disassemble it at
> the end of the year so each child can take his or her own square home.
> She also wants a pocket so it can be hung from a pole. She's not a
> sewer, and she was worried about how difficult it would be to add a
> pocket (not difficult at all of course) but she wasn't at all concerned
> about how to loosely sew hemmed patches together in such a way that they
> could be easily disassembled, and still hang nicely as a banner.
>
> All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
> running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or
> anything like that, because she doesn't want any visual element
> interfering with the children's designs. I'm also wondering about
> convincing her to allow some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.
How about the self adhesive velcro - that way there would be no
stitching to show through onto the front of the design. IMNSHO even
sewn on velcro would be nigh on invisible of you used a white thread and
sewed it onto each hemmed square *before* the children did their bit. I
would recommend hemming the squares first, because that way there is no
chance of losing any part of the design in the hemming process, or any
bits falling off! If you can convince her to use velcro the squares
could be mounted onto a backing material of a contrasting colour
eliminating the need to sew sashing to anything.
Lizzy
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Posted by Rita in MA on February 26, 2008, 7:28 am
Do you think it would work if you made the top hem ( and maybe even the
bottom hem) a casing and then ran a cord or fishing line through the
casings and tacked the cord to a backing banner? Forgive me if that
made no sense. I can SEE it but not express it too clearly.
Rita L.
Melanie Rimmer wrote:
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> All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
> running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or
> anything like that, because she doesn't want any visual element
> interfering with the children's designs. I'm also wondering about
> convincing her to allow some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.
>
> Have you ladies got any ideas about this?
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Posted by NightMist on February 26, 2008, 3:58 pm
GMTA
Exactly what I was thinking Rita!
Oh! here is another way I just thought of this second!
Even if you didn't make a caseing you could run a wide zigzag over
fishing line and just chain the pieces along the line, and knot or
tack (to a tassel or the like maybe?) the line at the ends. There you
have your banner, and all you have to do is just snip the line to
seperate them, the line will slide right out from under the zig zag.
You could do it again at the bottom if you wanted a more solid looking
banner. If you have to stack two chains just a hand stitch connecting
mostly the line at the intersections would be all you needed. You
could tack the sleeve on at the top in the same way.
NightMist
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>Do you think it would work if you made the top hem ( and maybe even the
>bottom hem) a casing and then ran a cord or fishing line through the
>casings and tacked the cord to a backing banner? Forgive me if that
>made no sense. I can SEE it but not express it too clearly.
>Rita L.
>Melanie Rimmer wrote:
>>
>> All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
>> running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or
>> anything like that, because she doesn't want any visual element
>> interfering with the children's designs. I'm also wondering about
>> convincing her to allow some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.
>>
>> Have you ladies got any ideas about this?
--
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Posted by Roberta Zollner on February 26, 2008, 8:43 am
You could bind them and put a grommet in each corner. (Might be easier just
to add a backing, sew around RST with an opening to turn, turn and press,
and stitch once around the entire edge.) Then make a separate square for the
"label", maybe including the school name, class, date. This would be the bit
with the pocket, or however you need to attach to a pole. Also with
grommets. Then tie the pieces together corner to corner with ribbons through
the holes.
Roberta in D
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> My 8-y-o daughter's schoolteacher approached me to ask for my help with
> some sewing (I have already been asked to design Joseph's Dreamcoat for
> the school production in June - if you want a quiet life, don't let anyone
> know you sew!) She and another teacher had seen a patchwork banner in
> another school and wanted to emulate it. All of the children have painted
> designs on a square of white fabric (they look about a foot square). She
> wants me to hem them all, then assemble them into a banner, but here's the
> tricky bit - she wants to be able to disassemble it at the end of the year
> so each child can take his or her own square home. She also wants a pocket
> so it can be hung from a pole. She's not a sewer, and she was worried
> about how difficult it would be to add a pocket (not difficult at all of
> course) but she wasn't at all concerned about how to loosely sew hemmed
> patches together in such a way that they could be easily disassembled, and
> still hang nicely as a banner.
> All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
> running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or anything
> like that, because she doesn't want any visual element interfering with
> the children's designs. I'm also wondering about convincing her to allow
> some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.
> Have you ladies got any ideas about this?
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> some sewing (I have already been asked to design Joseph's Dreamcoat for
> the school production in June - if you want a quiet life, don't let
> anyone know you sew!) She and another teacher had seen a patchwork
> banner in another school and wanted to emulate it. All of the children
> have painted designs on a square of white fabric (they look about a foot
> square). She wants me to hem them all, then assemble them into a banner,
> but here's the tricky bit - she wants to be able to disassemble it at
> the end of the year so each child can take his or her own square home.
> She also wants a pocket so it can be hung from a pole. She's not a
> sewer, and she was worried about how difficult it would be to add a
> pocket (not difficult at all of course) but she wasn't at all concerned
> about how to loosely sew hemmed patches together in such a way that they
> could be easily disassembled, and still hang nicely as a banner.
>
> All I can come up with is to hand-sew them onto a sheet with fairly big
> running stitches. She doesn't want buttons, pop studs, velcro or
> anything like that, because she doesn't want any visual element
> interfering with the children's designs. I'm also wondering about
> convincing her to allow some sashing, to make each panel stand out better.