AliKat

I used 2 4x8 ft sheets of insulation material from Home Depot. A friend and I duct taped them together in a hinge fashion. The we sprayed the insulation with a 3M spray adhesive bought at an office supply store and covered it al with batting, though we could have used flannel. I then duct taped the edges so it would look 'pretty.'

It is folded and behind a large bookcase in my living room. The top is draped with a Mola and it looks like a design element of the room. Whenever I need it I pull it our and unfold it for use. I lay out my quilt and take pictures then carefully remove the blocks and number the rows appropriately.

This is ideal for a small place when you want a large quilt wall.

enjoy.

raptureready

That happens and you aren't alone. In the winter time we don't heat the upstairs enough to work up there so I have to schlep all my stuff downstairs and listen to DH complain about the mess. Try hanging a flannel sheet or a flannel backed table cloth over one of your curtain rods while you're working. It would be easily put up and taken down. And if you pin things in place, take it down, store it until the next time and everything would still be where you want it. You'll be surprised how much faster quilting goes when you have a design wall. The time it takes to put the pieces on it is offset(and then some) by the ease of having them in place to sew.

Ditter43

Now that I have one, I am able to lay out designs I wouldn't have thought of before. It is so much easier this way. It is also nice to be able to take a row at a time off to sew together and keep the order straight.
The top I just finished, the scrubs top...was designed on the wall.I doubt I would have done it otherwise. My design wall has become VERY important to me. I love it!!!

Ditter

cuppi duke

I made myself a design wall and it is the best thing I ever did. I just thumb tacked fleece to the wall and then covered it with white flannel tacked over the top. It holds a double size top and I could expand a little if I wanted to. The thumb tacks don't make large holes and in my sewing room I didn't think it mattered that much. Some dobs of spackle and a fresh coat of paint and it will be like new again.

MadQuilter

No I don't - wish I did, but NO ROOM. As a drafter, I usually sketch my projects on grid paper and then audition smaller sections on the table. That method works for me.

Rebecca VLQ

Thanks for all the replies, guys!

I, too use graph paper to kinda sketch out what I want to have happen, but even then I lay things out on the carpet. Which is fine for us, I guess...but for quilts for giving? I'm kinda forcing the recipients to be ok with it,lol!

I need to win the lotto so I can get all the goodies I want.

littlehud

I wish I had one. But my answer is no.

LINANN

I have a drop ceiling in my bacement..I boutht plastic tablecloths with felt backing. I closepin them to the metal strips that hold the ceiling up. Works perfect and was very inexpensive.

Kyiav10

I would love to have one...I am sure DH would love me to have one also b/c I use the pool table!

Kyia

1quilt_gma

I am in an ongoing process of redoing my sewing room. I have 4 large windows (2 on each outside wall). I know I may want to put curtains on them eventually, they have blinds now. So I put up two curtain rod holders, the U-shaped kind, sort of, one in the middle and one to one side of 2 of the windows. I bought some queen size batting, turned each end and sewed a "channel" ** at the top and bottom, put a large dowel stick in each, and I have a ready made design wall almost to the floor..in my windows. The curtain rod holders can hold both dowel sticks so I can store the wall when not in use, or if I want to open all the windows.

When I decide where I want my wall sort of permanently, I can then take down this batting, use it in a quilt, and make my new wall as I see fit.


(**sorry, that is not the word I am looking for, but it escapes me for now)