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When I go to Wal Mart, I look in the bin where they stick discount fabric. I found a large piece of white flannel! What a find!
I had been to the dollar tree here, and bought a few pkgs of large (pretty) binder clips (like the black ones, but with pretty designs) and I bought some of those hooks that you put on the wall, but can remove easily without damaging the wall (3M). I put 3 of those hooks up there, hung the binder clip handles on the hooks, and clipped the fabric to the clips. Its wonderful. My ceilings are slanted in the sewing room, so I can't have too large a piece. Its perfect for me (a beginner). I'm on my laptop and my pics are on my desktop but I can post tomorrow when I get back on my desktop. :-) It was simple, easy, and inexpensive! (doesn't get much better than that!) |
Originally Posted by 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.
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Originally Posted by 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.
** casing, maybe? 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) |
Not yet. I have to figure out where to put it, I don't have any room!
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Casing! that's the word!
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I do not have a design board, I just used the floor and stood on a chair to get a better perspective lol, actually it may sound silly but as I was making a bed quilt I used a combimation of floor and bed, that way I could see how it was going to look as it came together laying the quilt down on a bed since that was what it was designed for. I also used the method which artists use of squinting at the arrangment to help with tonal value, it really is worth doing that to achieve contrasts etc.
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i dont have one but after reading all the replies and watching a video yesterday i want one !! the lady in the video had her hung on the wall and she used it to layer her quilt for quilting !! i love that idea instead of laying it out on the floor and crawling on my hands and knees , does anyone else use theres for layering the quilt with the batting and backing ?
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I haven't.... yet.
I have two tops ready for layering. Could you tell us where you saw the video? I can't picture all three layers staying on the wall...maybe it was a smaller quilt? |
I found the Fons and Porter quilting board at Joanns on line for 1/2 off at Christmas. It is a fancy flannel table cloth with grommets to hang it on the wall and it has grid lines on the back. I really like it. Probably would not spend full price, but a good value on sale. I do find that individual blocks stick really well ( for days at a time!) but once you sew them into strips, you need to pin the strip in place because the weight of the strip is too heavy for the board. I think the measurements are 60x72.Good luck!
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Mine is made from an old cutting mat. It is coverd with thick batting and then with fleece. Everything sticks to it.
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