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Originally Posted by IAmCatOwned
(Post 5394223)
I was going to make one just like yours, but our local fire captain overheard me and asked me not to. He said having such a large board is a fire hazard and it would be safer to use something like luan (sp?) for the board. He's not too hot on the batting either, for what it's worth, and suggests flannel instead. NO quilter has had a fire yet in our community, but three house fires right in my neighborhood were caused by unattended candles!
What I'd prefer to do is develop a design roll, so that I can roll my design wall up when not in use until some day when I again have a room devoted to quilting! I'm not sure how these boards can be a fire hazard as these are what they use in housing construction for insulating. And I'm using batting because I used to have a flannel design wall and once you sew 2 blocks together, they would no longer stick and had to be pinned. I think the batting will hold the blocks better. |
I used an All-purpose Spray Adhesive that I got at Home Depot. It is permanent where the quilt basting spray is not. It worked well. I bought 2 cans and barely used half of 1 can so it goes a long way.
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PHOTOS BELOW OF MY DESIGN BOARD - We did this a few years ago and I could NOT live without it. And it was my husband who INSISTED I needed one. [Thanks, Bill!] He is a construction engineer, having built a few embassies and having done historic renovations on a few other of our embassies overseas. He knows all about codes and designed our retirement home with better specs than the higher priced custom homes here. [end of brag-a-thon]
Your fireman is so used to dealing with careless and thoughtlessness, it's understandable he'd be extra-cautious. But, as mentioned before, this insulation is used in normal "everywhere" construction. IMPORTANT: The spray adhesive may dissolve the insulation board because it is a petrochemical product!!!!! We first affixed the insulation board directly to the wall using a putty gun type product, reading the label to be sure it was okay to use on foam, styrofoam or similar petrochemical products. My design board is 96x96, we used four or five "guns". We let it sit for three days to affix thoroughly. We then affixed a simple white wood molding to all four sides, with wooden rosettes at the corners (pretty!) We got a large bucket of what looks like an Elmer's glue equivalent at Home Depot, thinned it a bit with water to make it easier to apply, and we slathered the insulation board with the glue using a wide paint brush (4") for the majority of the board and then switched to a narrower paint brush (1 1/2" or 2" wide) for the edges. We were generous with the glue. Instead of batting, we affixed gridded flannel directly to the insulation board, cut off the excess at about 1" past the sides of the whole board, and used a putty knife (and more thinned glue) to wedge the excess into the crack between the board and the molding. We brushed a little more thinned glue on the fabric along the edges of the board. You can see where I have a center seam in the flannel, but, that's never been a functional issue. My husband then installed a barred "rack" of dowels above the board so I could hang works in progress, and roll them up and out of the way while working on other projects. Hope this helps - if you have any questions, PM me! PS. The project on the board is the repair of my grandson's coming-home-from-the-hospital quilt (he's 7 now). Those dark dots are the surviving crumpled letters of his surname "HUTCHINSON 4" (he's Albert J. Hutchinson IV). You can barely see the faux uniform pinstripes of the top part which I did using a pintuck foot and navy thread. This is an old set of photos - there's more clutter pinned to the sides now .... |
Wow Wunder-Mar! Love your design board.
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