How Do You Stretch Fabric For Wall Hangings?
“DAVID A. CLEMEN: Okay, welcome back. Now that we have our panel together, we’ve already built our frame. We’ve pressed it. We are now ready to stretch the fabric over the actual frame. So, I’m going to lay the fabric on the table. I’m going to slide the frame out, okay? And then I’m just going to set the frame on top of it and see, by our measurements, we actually have plenty of fabric. And these less-than-expensive cottons are actually going to stretch a little bit once you get it on here. And so, I’m just going to kind of center it by eye, and this looks how I want my stripes on this piece. So, I actually can slide this down because I’m not going to need all these extra fabric. I just cut it the width of the factory edge, so I can come over here and I got enough to cover there, this will cover there, and this will cover there. So, on this end, I’m just going to cut, trim this off, and the scrap that I’m going to have actually I could use for something else or I can just use and just
