Paint a Quilt Design on Walls??
 

Anyone ever paint a quilt design on walls of a room. I don't mean "a" quilt on a wall for a picture but all the walls like wallpaper? Wondering about twelve or eighteen inch long scrappy-look "flying geese" with a pantry door covered with a real flying geese quilt, smaller blocks. Outrageous? Any ideas? (Still not got this pictured in my head. Other patterns? Brainstorming with morning cup of coffee.

Maybe just one wall for accent.....whole room might be overwhelming, unless large room with lots of distractions......jmho

I agree. Just do one wall and see how you like it. goo Luck. Sound very interesting and fun.

I've it done on floors, especially painted concrete floors and think one focus wall would be really interesting!

Jan in VA

Oh that sounds like a lot of fun! One of my quilty friends taped off her living room wall and did different color stripes, some vertical and some horizontal. It's pretty, but the flying geese idea sounds much cuter.

I too, would like to see the flying geese.

Go for it, it's only paint.

sound great one wall up behind the bedhead , how many times have I hunted for a picture for bedrooms with the right colours in , Cathy (Interior Designer )

Give it a try and send us a pic, sounds like a neat idea!

I love quilts, but think this sounds terrible.

That is a cool idea and an idea that I have had as well only because I could paint a most difficult quilt that would be almost impossibe to make lol. I can think of one wall I could use. One of the hallway walls, those are the only bare walls left lol.....

another idea would be to apply a thin canvas to the wall like wall paper, just in case you did an excellent job and had to move and so you could take it with you lol

I painted this plaid on one of my living/dining room walls.

This a really cool idea. One wall would be great, but it would take many hours and mistakes would be before your eyes forever. Love the plaid wall JENNR8R.

If you do the entire walls, you might want to use a "low volume" type design to keep it from being overwhelming. Faded colors, soft pastels...

I think it could be really really cool!!

Very neat idea! I would probably go with light, neutral colors that would blend with any decor.

How about a border, right under the ceiling, all around the room? It could be as wide or as narrow as you wish.

That is beautiful!!!!

Dina

WOW and you even wove the stripes. That must have been a chore to work out...........but it came out beautiful.

Re: painting a whole wall as wallpaper. I think it would depend on how complicated the pattern is and what colors it is. Personally, I would just paint the smaller pantry door. Too much going on in a room will definitely take away from the other items in the room, but a small door would draw your attention and then leave to investigate other areas. If the door is to your liking, then you could continue to another wall, but if not, your time investment wouldn't have been so great either. Just MHO.

I'd like to paint one of those barn wall quilts. Maybe 4' square. Then it wouldn't have to be so perfect. Anybody know how to do that?SVAL

I really want to do a barn block on the outside of the building where my studio is. Good luck with your pfoject and I would love to see the pictures when it is done.

This link shows how to use painter's tape to paint one on a wooden sign. The same idea would work for on a wall. http://www.wikihow.com/Paint-a-Barn-Quilt

Now I'm thinking...what if you did patchwork with wallpaper scraps? I see orphan rolls of wallpaper at thrift stores often.

Hmmmmm!!!

A lady on here, I believe, hand painted different quilt block patterns, like a wall paper border all around the walls in her sewing room. It was wonderful!!!

cool ideas! Has anyone noticed the paint commercial where the couple paints their living room in pink/turquoise patchwork?

re: paint a quilt design
 

1st-Thankyou! It took me a good 8 months to a year to paint all those blocks. But I woudn't have wanted it any other way! This has become my most favorite room!
2nd. Yobrosew. If you are wondering how mine turned out, I posted my original blog on 7/27/14 and finally got pics posted on 8/2 or 3/14. It was under the blog title of my sewing room-finally! and my sewing room-finally!-hopefully w pics. I, too, also thought of an entire wall, but changed my mind-like you are supposed to when doing anything involving quilts! I am glad I did it only as a border design. I now have some various sizes quilt racks hanging beneath my designs and hang differnet quilts on them-making it easier to have a different look at a moment's notice! Good luck on whatever you decide. I will keep my eyes open to see the finished pic. Sewsewchickie

i haven't done a wall....but what a great idea....BUT, i did do the covers of the boxed fluorescent lights in my kitchen. They were put in when we built the house and i have never really used them cuz i don't like the light they give off...but was too cheap to have them removed and the ceiling redone.....so......used liquid stained glass stuff to decorate them.[ATTACH=CONFIG]523666[/ATTACH]

Love your idea! In the 70's I did some murals on "high traffic" walls where we seven kids and all our friends tended to leave fingerprints and scuff marks. Two of the original four murals have survived. Perhaps I should ask Mom if she'd like to change one to a quilt block design! Thanks for the inspiration! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

That soft colored plaid wall and what you did with the fluorescent lights are both beautiful! Great painting, ladies!

I remember going to Joan Stats' house (Canadian quilter www.joansown.com). Joan had her front door painted like a quilt. Sooooo cool!!!!!

Sewnoma, what a great idea!
I just picked up what I thought was wrapping paper and it turned out to be I think a wall border. I might look for other pieces to compliment it. Now there is a use for those wallpaper sample books.