Make a Rainbow Canopy for Your Child's Room

Step 3 The canopy: piecing the rainbow

Fabric preparation and assembly of the main part of the canopy.

Prewash your cloth, dry it on hot. That way you have it preshrunk should your little one smear something on it and laundering becomes necessary.

Cut two 9" wide strips from each color, along the length of the fabric cut (each strip is one yard by 9"). You only need two 9" wide strips. Set the remaining fabric aside.

Finish all raw edges with a serger if you have one.

Sew two of each strip together on the narrow end. If you did not serge the edges, make a flat felled seam. If you serged, simply fold the serged edges over together and topstitch.

Take these pieced strips and sew them together lengthwise in this order: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet. Either flat-fell or topstitch these seams as above.

Comments

[m82850207]

How much allowance on the nine inch strips was for the seams?

[jauncourt]

 About 3/4 of an inch. Total, so each side has a 3/8 seam allowance. It's all done by eye (so it's roughly 9"). Flat felled seams don't need to be wide to be sturdy.

[m82850207]

I wondered because the frame is only about 26 1/2 inches wide. Thanks for the quick response. You should patent this :)