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I am working on my beige/brown log cabin blocks and decided it is time to make a design wall.Today we are going to get them.I have some beige flannel to cover them and I am so excited. I am going to do piano key borders and will have the wall to stay organized.Will post pics later

Congrats!!! I love mine!!!!

Good for you. I am still laying mine out on the bed in the spare bedroom.

a design wall will change your (quilting) life.
although, you are pretty awesome without one ;-)

thanks,I have been using my bed but now I am sew exited to attempt more complicated patterns with the wall.

You will be surprised how great it will be. Have fun with it.

I love my cheapy design wall and I'm sure you will love yours too!

You'll soon be saying ... what took me so long?
and how did I quilt without a design wall?

my quilts quadrupled in interest once I put up my working wall. Whatever idea I started with is long ago history once I've had time to view the blocks over a number of weeks. Good job!

For those of you that may be thinking you don't have room for one of these, I nailed a row of little picture hanging nails near the ceiling, and while I'm working on a quilt, I hang the batting from the nails and use it as a design wall. When the top is pieced, I just take the batting down and finish the quilt!

Interesting. I also use batting as my design wall, but I never thought to use it in the quilt that I was piecing at the time.

Good for you, you always put your quilts together in a pleasing way.
I still use my bed or just wing it.

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In the middle of putting up my wall, I'm using pins now, but I have the flannel to put up, just haven't done it yet. lol

It is going to be great! You won't be able to figure out how you quilted without it!

Dina

I just purchased the same wall hangings. Are you making quilts from them or wall hangings?

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I'm making a quilt. I just ordered some fabric of woods. Above picture, On the left hand side of the wall you can see about what it looks like. I've been to Carolina Cotton site at least 10 times today. lol I'm gonna go broke ! Anyone doing scenery needs to check out the grasses, sunsets, lakes, etc.

I love my design wall but have had to put it up for awhile because my 2 cats (age 2) think it is a climbing wall for them. Hopefully when they get a little older they will resist the challenge.

I love my design wall. I just taped batting up. But my one cat loves it too. He has been ripping pieces of my wall down to play with them. He's such a turd, there's a reason his name is meathead lol.

I love my design wall .. But in a pinch i have a flannel sheet over the spare bed if i get an overflow of blocks or working on more than one project at a time..


Post pics when done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She is sooooooooooooooooo right.

I bought a piece of felt rolled up at an Estate Sale, when I got home I opened it up to see if anything was wrong with it..nothing so I laid it aside then a week later it hit me Design Wall its about 6' long & WOF perfect for my little sewing room. I paid $2 for it. And Love it! I just tacked it to my wall.

Ohhhh is there instructions??

a design wall can be batting tacked on the wall

I envy a design wall. Right now I need a wall. Right now all I have is a flannel backed tablecloth pinned on top of two units that my daughter used to have in her room. I wish I had a place for them, then it would give a nice wall. Ugh, maybe one day I'll figure it all out. Too busy sewing though.

What is the blue material you used for your design wall under the flannel, please? Is it insulation? What brand?

Thanks!

Cricket

1inch thick foam insulation cost for two sheets is about thirty dollars and then flannel stapled on.

that's what I've done. i figure it will end up in the last quilt I ever do...or not ;-)