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sewingsuz 11-06-2015 12:48 PM

Threads off of design wall?
 
I have use my design wall for several years now and there is many stray threads sticking to the flannel. Has anyone else had this problem and how did you get it clean?

MissSongbird 11-06-2015 12:57 PM

I just read (like last night) in a quilting magazine that someone uses a toilet brush (new of course) to brush of the threads. I would imagine that any stiff bristle brush would work.

Beachbound 11-06-2015 12:58 PM

I use a lint brush, the sticky roller kind. Sometimes I need to unroll it a few times but it works great. I have also used this on my cutting mat.

ManiacQuilter2 11-06-2015 01:26 PM

I use a lint remover that is like masking tape turned inside out.

mom-6 11-06-2015 02:49 PM

If you have masking tape, wrap it sticky side out around your hand several times to get a wide enough surface to do some good and just pat your design wall and let the tape pick up those stray threads.
Or of course you could pick them off one by one..,,NOT!

Onebyone 11-06-2015 02:51 PM

I vacuum them off.

Boston1954 11-06-2015 05:34 PM

I would take some wide packing tape and wrap it around my hand and see what happens. I like to do that with the couch after the cats have been sitting on it for some time.

QuiltnLady1 11-06-2015 06:21 PM

I use the lint roller -- get them in a package at Costco.

Material Witness 11-06-2015 07:03 PM

Someone in our group recommended a not-disposable lint roller from a dollar store, looks like a hairbrush but with red "velvet" instead of bristles. Easy to clean.
Also, I just saw where someone went to all the trouble to buy a small paint roller, then slipped on a hair curler to roll over their carpet - it would work on a design wall.

sewingsuz 11-06-2015 07:40 PM

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try the masking tape. and also the vacuum.


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