Portable Design Wall?
 

I need your ideas. I've been using a flannel on a curtain rod but I don't have any good place to hang it.
I'd like something I can lean against a cabinet. TY!!

Dotty how big do you need it? For smaller projects get a tri fold foam poster board, cover it with flannel and it would sit on a cabinet or lean against it..

I'd love something about 4 x 8". Plywood would be too heavy. I live in an apartment and would love something I can tuck behind a cabinet.TY

How about two sheets of insulation? You could tape them together with some
duck tape and fold them when not in use.

I have 2-4X7 sheets of rigid insulation, from home depot covered in cheep batting. Works great and easy to move I cut off a foot because I can't reach that high, and it is easier to move around

Design board suggestion
 

My husband bought a large piece of foam board at our local Home improvement store for my design boards.
He cut it in half and I covered them with flannel.
The two boards fit behind my sewing room wall, and I can quickly slide them out when I need them.
If I need a large width I just put the two boards side by side.
They are very lightweight and easy to use and store.

Portable Design Wall
 

When I was in a guild I made one out of foam boards cut into 18" x 8' sections, used duck tape to put them together but still able to fold them up into an accordian fashion, added flannel to one side. This made it easy for me to tote them to the place where we held our guild meetings. I've left that guild and moved out of the state so have no idea if its still being used or not. They now have come out with portable ones that looked much better but at a heftier price. I now have a design one using leftover batting on one wall but getting ready to upgrade it with something behind the batting so I can push straight pins into it.

Forgot to mention I had put 4 sections at 18" wide x 8' together making it 72" x 8'.

Thanks for your ideas. I just taped 2 flattened cardboard boxes together . Tucked into an open dresser drawer.
It works until I can catch a ride to Home Depot!!

I went to Lowes and bought foam board. The gentlemen there cut it down so I could reach the top and loaded it in my car. I put flannel on it and it slides in and out behind a quilt I have hung on the wall. It is a shelf quilt hanger, so there is about 6 inches behind it. I had looked at the design walls that roll down like a window shade, but they were too expensive.

i have a flannel back tablecloth hung on cuphooks that match the molding so they are almost invisible when i take the flannel down. it's quite convenient and easy to put up and take down. i use a step stool to reach the top. if i get any shorter i'll need a ladder.
sorry i don't live closer-- i'm always up for a trip to home depot!

Great ideas..

I find an art canvas works well covered with flannel...can get in many sizes. I have two 20" x 16" and I can carry them around or you can put a pin or nail in the wall and hang it. When working on small piece complicated blocks, I just set it next to my sewing machine on a small table and can pick up each piece sew and then put back.

I hang a flannel sheet on one wall of my sewing room with push pins. Also you can use the back of a cheap flannel backed table cloth. Either one could be taken down and stored easily. Mine stay up all the time - could not put a quilt together without it! Sure don't need to spend a lot of money to get this done.

I have a lack of wall space. Thanks for all the good ideas!

My design wall is portable. I have a vinyl tablecloth with a flannel back. What I really love about it is the grid on the vinyl is 1" blocks. I attached Skirt hanger with swivel hooks. I can hang it on my curtain in my sewing room. I also have an old Wright's pattern cutting board with 1" grids I can use push pins and can attach the flannel and prop it up on my workbench. I can fold it all up and tuck it between cabinets or behind my 401.

How about foam board? It comes in 4'x8' sheets found at Home Depot.

How portable do you want it. I purchased a sketch board from Hobby Lobby and attached a folded piece of flannel and secured it to the board with small binder clips. It is very portable and large enough for 12 1/2" blocks.

I think that insulation come is the standard size of 4'x8'. It does come in thinner widths but you wouldn't want it to fold and crack. I use 1" thickness.

I used 2 foam insulation boards and purchased a cover from Joanns and it works great.

this is what I used to have but it was on the wall. Now that I'm in an apartment, I only have 1 covered with Flannel and it leans against a wall. I miss having 2 though - much more room for design.

I use a piece of batting attached with a coat hangers to back of a door.

I bought ridgid insulation board and had it cut into thirds so I could get it in my car to take home. If you use gorilla tape to make a tri fold board, it could be folded and stored behind couch or under bed.

All of the ideas are great....but... I think like a teacher. I'd go to a place that sells appliances and beg off an appliance box. Cut the box to appropriate sizes to fit in your area. You could even make different sizes to use for different size projects or perhaps to share. Flat cardboard can be covered with batting scraps or flannel. Good luck.

I made me a portable one with an 18 X 24 art canvas, and covered it with flannel. The quilt I'm making now, has two different blocks, so to keep them straight, I just prop it up next to my machine and keep a sample of both blocks on it...and then chain sew....works wonders...

Hi all, haven't been on for a while. My computer crashed and so I took some time to find a new one. I also found a oil field skid shack that I am going to turn into my sewing cave. It is built extra insulated has a propane furnace in it, also wired, has kitchen cupboards and a stove, but the stove is gonna go I think. Has a setup for washer and dryer which I won't need and it has a bathroom, --walk in shower, toilet. Not sure if I can get water hooked up or not here on the farm. I am going to paint the interior white-ceilings and all. I also have a carpet and pad to put down. I bought myself one of the original scrapbox that some of you may have seen. Bought that before I found the trailer. It has two doors, into each room separately. What they called a bachelor's pad in the oil field. This is going to be interesting to see how I can get it all set up so that I can just leave my sewing lying out and can come in and pick up where I left off. That has been my problem. Hubby likes to put his mags and newspapers on my sewing desk, so then I can't find anything or I have to clean it off before I can use it. Plus 3 hairy dogs, which I don't like all over my fabric.

Use 2 pieces of 4x8 ft Foam board and duck tape to make a seam that will allow you to fold it in half for storage.