i purchased 1" foam board (white) from home depot...about $4 a sheet-8'x4'...i bought 3 of them...then i bought wide white flannel, covered one side of each 8'x4' foam board butted them together side by side and adhered them to the wall. so i have a 12'x8' design wall... i can have a whole quilt in the works plus room of other blocks, and if anyone else is around sewing there is room for them to use too. and the blocks just stick to the flannel...like flannel story boards from elementary school. some people purchase flannel backed vinyl tableclothes and use the flannel side, some have been really 'crafty' and made a shade over a window work as one...so you can pull it down when needed, roll it up when not needed. you will use as much space as you give yourself...so if possible i would try to dedicate a whole wall, if that is not do=able any size is handy. :thumbup:

I don't have one. My sewing room is too small and filled with windows and closets and doors. So, I use the floor of the living room, which no one ever goes into.

I tacked a large piece of warm and natural on the wall.

Since moving from one house to another mine has changed. I did have a piece of insulation on the wall but here it took up too much wall space. So I covered foam core boards with flannel and put them on the closet doors with double stick tape.Need to buy more tape. I figure when I have to move again I can just take these down and arrange them any way I need to.

It is so much easier to put the block on the wall than on the bed or floor. (don't bend to easy anymore)Mine is behind the door on the wall and it works great. That way it doesn't take up any use-able wall space.

I've made only two quilts so my knowledge of quilting is limited. What's a design wall?

I never thought of mounting one on the back of the door. That is the only unused space in my sewing room. So I never had room for one. I get so many good ideas from this board. Thanks.

I have a piece of felt about about 60" x 60" and hang it with plastic pants hangers from the back of the door to my room or it I need it to be larger I hang it from the shelf brackets that go all the way around my sewing suite. Works great as the cloth sticks to the felt quite well.

A friend, who is a quilting teacher, just the other night said that you can make a design wall out of those inexpensive flannel backed table cloths. Put it up on the wall however you want to attach it with the flannel side facing you. You would probably want more than one and may even want to sew them together or something. I am thinking about having DH make a very thin wood frame that I can hang from two or three hooks and attach the table cloths to that. That way it would be removable if I had to do so. I might even ask if it is possible to make it into a folding frame so that it could be stored elsewhere.

I use insulation board but I find that if I use pins they get glue on them from the board after a while. my ceiling fan blows them off so I have to pin them