Dear Quilters,
I'd like your input on what you like and don't like about your design wall. We're about to make some major changes in my sewing/school room. The design wall (48" x 60")formerly rested on the elevated fireplace hearth. It's a sheet of insulated foamboard artfully covered by a flannel-back tablecloth which is taped to the back of the board. I want something larger that won't hold the threads as much. I hope to have the whole wall that it's resting against in this picture for a design wall area in the near future. It is on top of a banquet-sized table and leaning against the wall.
The quilt blocks on the design wall now are eventually going to be 9 x 9 blocks. As you can see, I'm a little short on space.
These are my Plan B blocks. The little HSTs are not hard, just tedious. I think I still need enough for 20 blocks (that's 160 HSTs that finish at 1-1/2" square...no problem!).
See my next post for what's happening outside.
~Joan in NC
2 comments:
Your quilt will be beautiful! I wish I had space to put a design wall on. I may have to come up with a portable one some day.
Joan - I don't have a design wall - but I hope too in the *new* house (that has yet to be found...) Have you considered having your handy husband build a "frame" in sections that you can hinge. Maybe 2 or 3 sections all hinged together. Similar to bi-fold doors or a room divider. Cover it in Warm & Natural batting - staple to the frame. The frame is portable - even though it is as large as you want it to be. Easily folded & put away behind a door - or left out. And the W&N is washable, replaceable (sp?) and certainly user freindly. If you are concerned about the sturdiness of the whole bi-fold idea & nothing being behind the batting on the frome - then staple chicken wire to it before you over it. This is an idea that I have been bouncing around for a couple of weeks since I am hoping to find a house with a huge bonus room or a basement that my long arm & my sewing room will co-exist in.
Sam
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