My "Vem ska trösta Knyttet"-paintings are finally hanging on the wall. The wall is newly painted, which made me more than commonly nervous about correct placement of the screws - obviously a bad idea to make a mistake - so I measured and drew markings on a paper large enough to cover the entire group of paintings, taped the paper up and screwed through it.
The painting itself was pure fun. The frames... I looked everywhere for frames to match my vision but no... So I finally decided to make my own. I asked Mats at the lumberyard to cut the pieces for me and my husband and I used a router to cut grooves for the paintings. We had to build a support for the router, the diagonally cut corners made it difficult to keep it straight. I stained the pieces before I glued them together.
The corner pieces on my strap clamp are too sharp for the soft wood I used for my frames, they'd mark them. I put strips of thick felt between them and the wood to avoid that problem, but other problems cropped up. I literally had to puzzle the pieces together - they weren't identical and some of them were slightly twisted. In the end I was quite happy with the constellation, though. I used a brush and painted the glue on. Worked very well, hardly any mess.
I knew exactly what I wanted to hang the frames, but what do you call the little metal blecks with "keyholes" in them? I still don't know their name in English, but the fellow at the hardwarestore understood what I meant and fouhd them for me. "Hängbleck" in Swedish. I'll remember for future use! They're screwed on top of a hole - ingenious, really. To prevent the frames from damaging my newly painted wall i put felt pads of the type you put on chair and table legs on the backside.
Now I'm afraid my appetite is whetted and I'll have to make all my own frames from now on. Or at least the ones for my kids in profile...
The painting itself was pure fun. The frames... I looked everywhere for frames to match my vision but no... So I finally decided to make my own. I asked Mats at the lumberyard to cut the pieces for me and my husband and I used a router to cut grooves for the paintings. We had to build a support for the router, the diagonally cut corners made it difficult to keep it straight. I stained the pieces before I glued them together.
The corner pieces on my strap clamp are too sharp for the soft wood I used for my frames, they'd mark them. I put strips of thick felt between them and the wood to avoid that problem, but other problems cropped up. I literally had to puzzle the pieces together - they weren't identical and some of them were slightly twisted. In the end I was quite happy with the constellation, though. I used a brush and painted the glue on. Worked very well, hardly any mess.
I knew exactly what I wanted to hang the frames, but what do you call the little metal blecks with "keyholes" in them? I still don't know their name in English, but the fellow at the hardwarestore understood what I meant and fouhd them for me. "Hängbleck" in Swedish. I'll remember for future use! They're screwed on top of a hole - ingenious, really. To prevent the frames from damaging my newly painted wall i put felt pads of the type you put on chair and table legs on the backside.Now I'm afraid my appetite is whetted and I'll have to make all my own frames from now on. Or at least the ones for my kids in profile...
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