Batting, Flannel, or Fleece - Design Wall Question

To all you ladies out there who have design walls...

Now that I've got a bit of room in my new craft room, I want to try and put together a design wall. What would be the best to use? My mom made one out of flannel, but she says it doesn't work with all fabrics.

Looking to kinda MacGyver something that can be put up and taken down when needed, so was just thinking of doing something I saw one gal here on the forums did and make a pocket at one end and hang up on a cheap curtain rod using those Command hooks.

Thanks in advance for the help :D

I have a piece of cream color fleece hung on a rod with command hooks it comes down folds up and rolls up when not in use. works very well.

Since a 'design wall' will be on my agenda somewhere down the line, I'm curious about what others have done, too! Do I understand correctly that you use mtl that squares will stick to without pinning or attaching somehow? April, do you have any pics of what you did?

Jess, I went to the appliance store here in my home town, got a fridge box, cut it up to the size I wanted, and wrapped it in a flannel sheet, trimmed about 1/2 to overlap the back and stapled it. Then tacked it up on the wall, Approximately 9 smalls brads with heads on them. It only took a few minutes to do it, and had a total of 2 bucks in it, as the flannel sheet cost that much at a resale shop. It's grabbed all fabrics, and if it gets thready, I use a lint brush on it. Plus, the depth of the corrugated cardboard is just right if you need to pin something. Done and done :D

Here are some pictures of my design wall and my small portable one I use for blocks. First picture is my design wall all rolled up it is about 18 inches long and rolled. 2nd picture is the hooks on the wall above my washer and dryer. Next is the design wall in place its about 6 foot across and 6 foot down. Last is my portable design wall made from a pillowcase of fleece with a piece of foam core inside.
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I have a plastic table cloth tacked to the wall with the flannel side out. Everything sticks just fine

I have white flannel on mine. Love it.

I think any of those would work good. I've used batting before on a couple of pants hangers......hung on the closet doors. Now I have a Fons & Porter design wall.......hanging on Command hooks. It works great. If you can get it with a 40 or 50% coupon it would be a pretty good price. It has a grid pattern on the back that shows through. I have a picture of mine in my albums.

I went to Home Depot and bought insulation board. It is foam board used in walls. It was a tad too tall, so I asked the clerk to cut it down for me. I did enjoy the look I received from the clerk when I explained what I was going to do. Once he got over his desire to giggle (or roll his eyes), he suggested a damaged piece of insulation board. It wasn't going to sell and the damaged part was removed when he cut it down for me. I got what I wanted cheaper and he got rid of damaged merchandise. Win-win.

I covered it with felt by pushing pins in the outside edges and taping the fabric to the back. If I had to do it over, I would probably use flannel. But, hey, the GREEN felt (with little flecks of gold) was on sale and we all know how we get when fabric is on sale.

I have the plastic/ vinyl tablecloth with very "sticky" cheap flannel backing and it's working great. You can actually hear a velcro like sound when you peel fabric off.......lol.
I don't have wall space so I used really big office clips to clip it to the front of a book case.
Cost = $0. I already had the clips and the tablecloth.
Easy to lift up to grab a book, or to make bigger, make smaller, move it, or remove it then put it back.

I have a huge piece of soft felt (?) that my brother gave me (left over from some weird project the he was working on). I use painters tape to put on wall.

my sewing room is in my bonus room with low ceilings , only about 5 ft. of wall space....any ideas how I can do a design wall

I just have a large piece of batting that is tacked to my wall with push pins. Not pretty, but functional. It is the room dedicated to quilting so I'm not so concerned with it looking nice. I have also wrapped batting or binding on a peice of foam core board when giving demos.

I'm with the flannel backed cheap vinyl table cloth crowd. I have mine thumbtacked to a wall. I hung a block on it for a couple weeks because I didn't believe it would work and it stayed until I pulled it up. It's held individual squares and whole quilt tops.
My problem with mine is I find I stay up past my bedtime rearranging squares to see what else it will look like.
Good Luck.

Usually design walls are made with 4 x 8 sheets of
House insulation, they are 1 inch thick.
Wrapped in a good quality flannel.

I have fleece on my design wall, I bought really thin fleece and put two layers on board.
It works more than perfect :)
When used a lot, I clean it with that roll you use for clothing, no idea how that is called, And it is good as new