I want to do a design wall that I can also use to hang, spray baste and sandwich the quilt. What do you gals use as your design wall?
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I want to do a design wall that I can also use to hang, spray baste and sandwich the quilt. What do you gals use as your design wall?
I used poly batting with sticky Velcro. It's on a storage cabinet. I took off the handles and cut it down the middle so I can get in there. You will love having one!
I went easy - mine is the Fons and Porter Design Wall, hung on command hooks. I'm lucky to have a large enough space behind my bedroom door.
Me, too, Amy...Fons and Porter!
Me 3 - Fons and Porter on Command hooks. Works for me. I don't do any spray basting, but do love having a design wall.
I also have the fons and porter -less than a year of using it and I am finding fabric does not stay on as well as it did in the beginning. Is this normal to happen?
I have an empty wall and use a flannel blanket walmart - my fabric will almost stick without pinning, it is easy for me to stick my pins into and move my fabric around.
Nana B, in texas
Just today I decicided I needed a design wall as I am making my first queen size quilt. I found this link which I feel is helpful
9 quilt design-wall ideas
Great website and tutorials. Thanks!
Take a bristle brush and rough it up lightly! Back in business for a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kgrammiecaz
I wouldn't use one to spray baste though - I would worry about over-spray and a sticky build-up.
I use the backside of a flannel lined vinyl table cloth.
Teri
I use a piece of polar fleece with a pocket on top and a 3 section dowel hanging over my washer and dryer on command hooks. The dowel is in 3 sections so it can come down fold in 2 foot section and get rolled up when not in use.Attachment 64119
Fabric sticks to it very well
My contractor friend came in and installed my design wall: 2 4' x 8' Sheets of 1/2" foam insulation that I covered with flannel purchased at Joanns for something like $1/yard ( great sale!). I bought 10 yards of the off-white flannel. The left-over pieces are also covered with flannel in various other places around my quilting room (behind the ironing board and next to the cutting table).
My "studio" (creativity zone) is in the basement and the ceiling is very low - about 6'. So the design wall goes from the ceiling to the top of the baseboard heaters along a 12' stretch of wall.
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It's the only place in the whole house that has that much wall space except the living room behind the sofa and hubby put his foot down against that idea. :)
Mine , my husband built. We used foam board, covered in warm and natural batting and put a frame around it. It covers one whole wall, floor to ceiling in my quilt room. I Love it.
Add me to the list of folks using big sheets of Foam board (from Lowe's) with light batting pinned around it. Mine isn't even mounted to the wall, just leaning - that gives me some flexibility to lie it on the floor if I need another angle/perspective. I pin right into it, since it's about an inch thick.
~kat
I have a homemade one, my DH helped me make. We had some folded insulation boards, he cut it the size I need and I covered it with white fleece bought at Joann's. It is great because I can fold it when not using and it stores in my sewing room next to my door and cutting table. Then when i need it I can pull it out and change the size according to what I need. It works and it only cost me about 6 dollars, b/c we already had the board.
I think this is the video that shows how Patsy sets up her spray basting wall.
Free Motion Quilting, Beginner Tutorial 2 (of 4) "Spray Basting Wall" - YouTube
Sometimes I also use a flannel lined vinyl tablecloth as a design wall. I don't spray baste on it because I have to keep it folded up and I don't want to wash it that often. I have seen Patsy Thompson's video several times and I wish I had the wall space in my craft room for something like that.
I am using 1/2" PVC pipe to make a frame then using felt for the pieces to be laid on. The nice part is it can be dismantled and stored easily.
I too have the Fons and Porter with the command hooks. I just got a 2nd one for Christmas as sometimes it just wasn't wide enough for queen/king quilt pieces. I need to empty a couple of projects in boxes to be able to get to the wall to use it - imagine that!
That's what I am worried about...I convinced my DH to get the foam board at Lowes the other night. Now it sits in my sewing room, I stare at it trying to decide...how big to cut it?......how to hang it? if to hang it at all. Meanwhile it just leans there. LOL I guess it'll hit me one day how I want it.
I have 2 binyl tablecloths with flannel backing. I hang these on the wall with push pins and the fabric stays. It's great for blocks; however, if you are hanging large sections sewn together or long strips, the weight of the fabric may be too much and things will fall off. I'm still happy with it and the price! I would NOT spray baste. I was at a group meeting yesterday and one of the discussions was about spray basting (which I do a LOT in my well ventilated sewing room). Evidently the spray (even though we all try to avoid it) gets in your machines and basically on everything. I'm rethinking the spray basting approach...
I have 2 vinyl tablecloths with flannel backing. I hang these on the wall with push pins (flannel side out) and the fabric stays. It's great for blocks; however, if you are hanging large sections sewn together or long strips, the weight of the fabric may be too much and things will fall off. I'm still happy with it and the price! I would NOT spray baste. I was at a group meeting yesterday and one of the discussions was about spray basting (which I do a LOT in my well ventilated sewing room). Evidently the spray (even though we all try to avoid it) gets in your machines and basically on everything. I'm rethinking the spray basting approach...
I have a budget saving one made from extra thick cardboard from an appliance box that I picked up for free from our local Sears appliance store. They usually have the boxes broken down for trash onsite. My husband picked up several pieces and I chose the best couple and used one for a design wall. I covered it with adhesive shelf paper...the contact type paper so I can wipe it off if I need to. I lean it against a wall when I am using it and store it in the garage or spare bedroom when I am not. It measures about 4 feet by 6 feet and is about 3/4 inches thick. You can use pushpins or sewing pins to attach your blocks to it. Very sturdy and longlasting and FREE.
Brenda
I used drywall screws to mount sound insulation board to the wall in my back hall. I used two 4' x 8' sheets and covered it with a painter's drop cloth. The drop cloth is slightly fuzzy so small pieces will stick without pins. I can easily pin anything else on. I framed it out with slats from an old wooden blind.
