CorgiNole

My "wall" is a flannel backed table cloth suspended from the closet doors.

The downside is that it must be removed nightly as my husbands clothes are behind the doors, but I have a large cardboard tube so I can roll it up until I'm ready to work again. {Note to self - roll more carefully next quilt so that I don't have to repress all the blocks again.}

Once the quilt is pieced together, I can then hang it from the hangars without the table cloth for things like auditioning borders or photographing it. I've also used the closet doors to support a quilt that I basted with water soluble thread to "unbaste" it with a spray bottle as I had too many crimps and creases in the back after the initial basting.

I wish I had room for a more permanent/durable wall, but recently inherited quite a few oil paintings, one of which will take up the wall I had originally designated as a design wall. But that wall would have been much harder to work on as I needed to place a table and shelving along it anyway.

I'm quite happy with this set up. Much more so than when I laid the table cloth on our bed (risk of Corgis settling on it). Floor was never an option due to lack of open space and Corgi wrestling matches.

Cheers, K

CorgiNole

I have a super cheapie table cloth and now a heavier duty table cloth. Definitely prefer the heavier duty one. My cheapie is crumpled due to folding storage. Steam might help it (if I had a steamer), but there is a melted spot from where the iron accidentally hit it, so I can't just press it flat again...

Cheers, K

DebbE

Mine is 7 feet wide and 7 feet tall - used two pieces of flannel that I stitched together. Made a pocket in the top and the bottom and put a 7 foot of 1"x2" board in each pocket. DH attached 3 - 88 cent nickel robe hooks (curved) that we'd found at Lowes at the top to set the board on. I made an opening in the center of the flannel at the top (for the hook). Works wonderfully well, and all total we spent maybe $7 for everything (had the flannel for years). Holds it nice and firm and I just lift it out of the hooks at the top if I need to move it. Love my design wall!

pollyjvan9

The insulation board works great. I don't have mine attached to the way so I can move it around if I need to because it usually stands in front of a floor to ceiling cabinet I have supplies in.

sewplease

Ladies, when you say fleece, do you mean something like the polyester "blizzard" fleece they have at Joanns? I believe it's 60" wide. Hadn't thought about using that...the fabric will stick to it OK?

I'm in an apartment and am thinking of making something like Debbe's with a pocket at top and bottom for weight and stability which I could hang from my fabric shelves. I could also wash it and not have it shrink up. I don't have much wall space/floor space either, and instead of corgi's, I have min-pins. :-)

I've been off this week for spring break and should have assembled my Bonnie Hunter Easy Street, but it's pretty big and I just didn't want to deal with it. This may be the motivation I need to get it together.

NanaCsews2

The fleece I purchased at Hancock Fabrics is Fireside Anti-pill fleece in white. It is 'thicker' than flannel or felt and it reminds me of what would be used for fleece jackets. It is soft and the heavier weight-ed loft of it holds the weight of layered fabrics very well. Today I finished a 9-block nine patch '2x2' wall hanging complete with batting. (I don't have a pic of it yet.) There is some weight to it as it is the wall hanging that has one of the 9-patch squares hanging off the wall hanging (holding the binding from the edge of the wall hanging), complete with stuffed arms, legs, and little plastic Ken doll shoes. I call it 'Hang In There' but don't know the actual title of the wall hanging. I stuck it up on the fleece without pins, smoothed it out, and it has not budged from that spot.

sewplease

Thank you so much for this information! Your wall hanging sounds very cool - please post a picture for us if you can! :-)

lots2do

You can buy vinyl with a nice plush backing at Joann's on bolts. I'm going to try the binder clips hanging from small nails or Command hooks.

BellaBoo

Did you know that foam backed vinyl makes a perfect ironing surface? Press on the foam side. It works like the Steady Betty. I have the Steady Betty and made a foam backed vinyl covered board to make a giant size one. The Steady Betty is better quality but the foam backed vinyl does great.

fabricbeforefood

I got a large piece of cardboard from an appliance store (free) covered it with white flannel and lean it against a wall. I can use pins in it, or slide it out of the way under a bed, or behind a door. Works great.