I have our old queen size mattress propped up against my sewing room wall. I keep the mattress pad on it, and it works very well. When the kids come I lower it down to the floor for extra bed space. Also works very well.

I got mine done today! We attached insulation board to the wall and covered it with W&N batting. It works wonderful. "Look, Mom...no PINS" I have a quilt on it already and have started adding the sashing. And to think I didn't know what a design wall was a year ago!

I use a flannel backed vinyl tablecloth velcroed to the wall above the closet. When I'm done, I take it down and up goes my insulation board that I use for spray basting attached to the same velcro on the wall over the closet. Win-Win, cha-ching!

I need to put one up and all of you have given me so many great ideas!Gonna get it up this weekend!

I just may have to try insulation board for both design wall and spray basting. Right now I use tables that I have to set up and take down for the spray basting and I have a flannel backed table cloth push pinned to my wall in my bedroom.

You folks are great! I had not thought of using a vinyl table cloth. I will use one from now on.

Insulation sheet from Lowes with $1 a yard flannel pinned to it.

Is it light weight?

I stapled up a ceiling to floor piece of fleece that closely matched my walls. I framed it by gluing decorator trim to the edges. It has worked well for nine years.

When I lived in a larger flat, I attached (with thumb tacks) some cheap poly batting to one wall and it worked great. Smaller pieced blocks would stick to the batting on their own. Bigger blocks required a pin or two.

(Thanks for the other ideas for making a mobile wall everyone!)

I also have the Fons and Porter,I like it alot. I have gone thru alot of cheap tablecloths before I got the Fons one. Iv'e had mine for 2 years and it is in great shape.

I purchased white flanel at Mill End Textiles, I've hung it up with large push pins in my bedroom, also hang one over the front of a large book case from time to time, on the back of a bedroom door. A friend just found several old LARGE roll up maps --> think back to school days<- - I'm going to take a look at them this weekend and see what out creative juices can dream up - another roll up design wall?

Yes, it hardly weighs anything. I am a 100 pound weakling, and I can move it without even thinking. I'd weigh it if I could figure out how. :)

I meant to quote the one I answered....but I'll just sort of repeat myself. It doesn't weigh much at all. Like lifting a hollow piece of foam.

Okay, I asked my husband how to describe how light weight it is, and he said to say that the batting I put on it weighs more than the foam board. Hope that helps. I used Warm and Natural, just because I had a roll of it.

Ditto here with the foam insulation. Used 2, covered with batting and DH glued them to the wall with something like liquid nails. I cannot believe how much I would use it and how wonderful it is to have up there

Ditto on the insulation. It's super light and easy to hand on to the wall plus you can pin into it.

Thank you and tell him thank you too. :thumbup: I gotta go to Home Depot. :!:

I found a sturdy but old, ornate room divider that is hinged into 3 parts at a Salvation Army Store. The hinges were in perfect shape, no rust, full range of motion, and it's about 5' tall. In order to be used as a room divider again, it would need to be refinished. It's faded, not peeling or rough, but it doesn't look very nice. I think that's why I got it for $3.00!!! Talk about the bargain of the week! I took it home, hung a vinyl table cloth on one side, cloth side out, as fabric sticks to this, as you now know. On the other side, I hung an old flannel sheet, and I pin things to this side. It's amazingly light, so turning it around or moving it is not a problem. I can either unhook the tablecloth or sheet and roll them up if I want to take them somewhere. Or I can simply fold the tri-fold room divider up flat, and slide it into the corner of my closet. If I don't want to squash what I'm working on, the tablecloth and sheet come down easily, rool right up, and go under the bed, and the now flat room divider disappears into the closet. Poof! It's out of sight! It works for me! And if I can whip them around, at 5'2", 105 Lb, you know it's light and easy.

Something to think about. Maybe something else out there like it?

Wonderful idea