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Ive been using Fons and Porters flannel one, that cost about twenty dollars, for years and it works fine. Could have made one cheaper but that's no fun.
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Thank all of you for the responses! I have both on hand, so I guess I'll just play with both and see which works best for me. That's one thing I love about quilting...there's always more than one way to do anything!!!
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I used leftover W & N. Occasionally I'll spray some quilting spray over the entire surface if my blocks fall off. About once a month I take the vacuum to it to get all the loose threads off or at least most of them.
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Originally Posted by Donnamarie
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Personally, I don't have a design wall but I have heard of people using flannel backed tablecloths for this purpose.
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I have a cheap beige acrylic full size blanket from walmart ( was less than $10.00). When I bought it I thought it was worth a try and if it didn't work I'd donate the blanket. Several years later it still works great. It's attached to the wall with command hooks and binder clips.
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I too used the flannel tablecloths with the plastic against the wall. It works fantastically. I got mine for $1 each at the thrift store. I have had kaleidoscope blocks hanging on it for at least a month and they have not fallen off at all.
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Originally Posted by dc989
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This is what I used. Actually it is one of those pads you use under a tablecloth to protect your table and reduce noise, I think. Works very well and is cheap at Walmart. Having said that the only glitch was getting it flattened out and the fold lines smoothed down. I finally put it in my dryer with a fabric softener sheet which helped. You can't iron it, so hopefully it will keep relaxing with use.
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Originally Posted by CarolynMT
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I just put my design wall up :) all I did was thumbtack up 2 oblong tablecloths to wall, with plastic side against wall. Attached my center panel and the one sample block and it is holding just fine. $4 tablecloths from walmart
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Mine is an old, flannel backed picnic cloth. Learned this in the first quilting lesson I took in 2002 or so, and it is still perfect for my use. At the time I had never even heard of a design wall, and now I have had one for over 10 years.
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My design wall is a fleece blanket suspended from a curtain rod by shower clips. I do need to vacuum it every once in a while and heavy blocks get pinned.
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