Design wall, just realize how important they are.
#22
I have a Fons and Porter design wall that I got with my 40% of Joannes coupon. It was only 29.99 to start with and it works really well. Then I bought a second one and cut it in half and put the halves on some small wall spaces I have, it is an inexpensive and effective solution.
#23
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,127
I am lucky that I have 3 large design walls make with insulation covered with washed flannel. I prefer the 1" insulation because if needed, I can push pins in. It is important to find what works best wherever we live.......
Good Luck with your birthday wish !!
Good Luck with your birthday wish !!
#24
I just added a giant design wall to a bedroom we have upstairs that wasn't being used. Love it, but I have to keep my step stool in there to reach the top. If we need the room later for a guest room, my design wall will become my art wall . Don't know how I got along without one.
#25
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
I made a basket quilt years and years ago, a king size quilt with basket blocks set on point, with sashing and although I didn't have a design wall per se, I did hang up a king size sheet and pinned the blocks on the sheet to figure out the placement of the blocks. It worked, but a design wall would have been much easier.
#26
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
Last year I looked high & low for these so called table cloths with flannel backing, no luck. Then I remembered some flannel I bought at an Estate Sale (can you guess from all my post that I LOVE Estate Sales lol) I thumb tacked it to a wall & I am happy with it as is my 13yr grand daughter. But I am now making Queen size quilt that we laid the blocks onto my King sized that worked perfectly since the queen is smaller than my King bed. Just tonight her Momma came to get her as we were laying out the blocks and of course my daughter had to jump in with her opinions LOL me & grand daughter were just looking at each other & smiling...my daughter never got into sewing so she don't know about arranging the lay out of a quilt. I was fun though to have the 3 generations working & playing with my blocks.
#27
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bluebell
Posts: 4,291
I love my design wall but it seems no matter how big it is it is never quite big enough. You really need one bigger than the quilt because the seam allowances are still full on the pieces you are putting up which makes the unsewn quilt quite a bit bigger than the finished product.
#28
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Washington
Posts: 855
One of the most important things a design wall allows over a bed is the ability to step back and look. If you don't have a design wall, you can lay the quilt on a bed and look at it through the wrong side of a set of binoculars. That will make the quilt appear further away and you can see it as if you stepped away. Sometimes it helps to stand on a chair to do this if you have good balance.
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