Rebecca VLQ

What's it made of? Worth it? Do you use it a lot?

k3n

I don't know how I ever managed without mine - I just wish it were bigger! It's around 5' x 6' and it covers an entire wall of my (tiny!) sewing room, down to the radiator. I have to stand on a step ladder to reach the top. We just made a frame out of some 2" x 1" timber and staple gunned some extra wide flannel over it. It hangs on the wall on two square hooks so can be lifted down easily if I want to put it somewhere to stand back and look from a distance - my room is so narrow that I can only get about 3' away, if I sit on my desk with my head in the bookshelves!

What I will do differently (when we've finished converting the attic and I move into my new, much larger room!Hooray!) is put something behind the flannel like some fibre board so it doesn't flap about when I'm juggling layouts.

shaverg

Mine is made from a 4'x6' foam core board from Home depot covered in a thin batting or you can use white felt. I hang it on the wall with the 3M hooks that stick to the wall, but can be removed without damage. It is great. Probably cost under $10.00 total. The nice thing is it will just hold your squares or you can pin them on it because it is about 1/2" thick.

Use mine all the time.

no1jan

Mine is made out of felt. I hung it up over a wide 3' closet with curtain rods. The doors are in the attic as after we had a fire, they used cheap stuff. Inside the closet is my stash, NOT ORGANIZED YET!

At first the blocks didn't stick properly so I used a hairbrush to loosen the nap. It works perfectly, and covers up the inside of the closet.

I think I will use K3n's advise and put a piece of wood at the bottom as my cat likes to walk back and forth and peak through the bottom of the felt. (Thanks for the advise).

I like the idea of just taking off the curtain rod and folding away when not in use, which hasn't been the case yet.

k3n

Jan, if you hemmed the bottom and stuck a batten or another curtain rod through it, I guess the weight would make it hang straight, discourage nosy kitty (LOL) and you could still roll it up. I think I might make a second one like this once I move upstairs that I can put up (maybe on DH's office side of the room tee hee!) when I need the extra space, so thank YOU right back!

vjengels

I depend on mine alot! I get finished blocks up on the wall as soon as I can, not only is it pretty, but you can see how far you've actually gotten. Mine is about 5x6, just some white felt I picked up at the second hand store, framed out with these great old wooden yard sticks from a fabric store that used to be in town somewhere; the phone number on the yard sticks is: telegraph1-6987, or something like that; haven't heard a number like that since I was a child! what a hoot!

Chele

One day I'd love to have a design wall. In the meantime, since I make a lot of minis, I stretched, wrapped, and stapled white flannel on a large oil painting canvas. It can be hung, but I like the portability of it.

SuzyM

I use the back of two vinyl table cloths and hang it on the wall using thumb tacks. My only available space is in the dinning room so when I am finish it is very easy to take down and it is really cheap.

I cannot complete a quilt without it. It is much better than the floor or on the bed because it can stay on the design wall until I have the top done - away from the doggy furries.

Katrine

I dont have any suitable wall space except for our landing, as we have lots of sloping ceilings - so hubby put some cup hooks along the length at the top. I stapled warm and natural over a length of dowelling, dropped it into the hooks and now have the whole length, and height, of that wall. Fabrics hold on it, I only put pins in if something is heavy. It's great because every time I walk past I can move something around.

redrummy

I have 2 4x8 foot thin wood panels (used to be backing from a bookcase) that I use as my design/pinning wall. I drape a blanket on it when using it as a design wall. I use office binding clips to hold blanket on it. Then when I need to sandwich a quilt, I use binding clips and tape to hold layers up on it to pin. since I have no wall space available, I store them behind the hutch when not using.