lindaschipper

Because I have pocket doors on the sewing room, I put Command Adhesive Hooks above the door on the inside of the room and purchased the Fons and Porter Design Wall from JoAnns ( it has grommets) with a 60% of coupon. I can take it down when not in use and no one see's the hooks from anywhere except inside my room. Works for me.

Kris P

I also tacked some batting to the wall. I will eventually get styrofoam to put up, and then either flannel or the batting again. The thing I don't like about the batting is it attracts strings, and needs to be cleaned off. I don't think flannel will do that.

QuiltE

You're most welcome!
Other places til you get that hutch moved .... behind a couch!
Just take a few inches off the bottom of that 8 ft and you'll find it easier to work with.

Once you have come down off the ceiling with excitement and discover that you need more design wall space ...... corroplast is thinner, so you can store more of them behind a hutch. Plus, can hang it on the wall with simple picture hangers, if you want to stabilize them more so, than just leaning allows for.

I have a whole family of design walls .... started with taped to the wall, and soon sold myself on permanency. Love that! However, I next discovered that I never have enough design walls, so my next foray was the corroplast for the light weight and portability. I have them in so many different sizes now! And all of mine are covered in fleece.

Glad to have helped you figure out .... what you already knew, but just hadn't remembered!!!

Roxanne

Me too! Actually, two years ago I had a room set up and designated as my studio. It’s since been broken down, and I took down my walls. They now move around the house to where I need them at the moment. Currently, they are on the deck awaiting photography.

Sewnoma

I have a wide-width piece of white flannel thumbtacked to my wall, on top of a couple layers of batting and some headliner foam. I like it thick enough that I can drive pins into it, so wagging doggie tails can't send lower blocks flying!

Next time I create a design wall, I think I'm going to put styrofoam behind it - I know I am hitting the wall with my pins sometimes even though I really try not to, I am not eager to see how that wall is going to look when I finally take it all down!

sherneff44

I use foam insulation board with warm and natural batting. I cut it to 7 x 2 and used the part I cut off for a couple of small ones to use by my machine, They are1 foot x 1 foot.

farmquilter

I bought the real cheap rolled up fleece at Walmart, was $2.50 this week. I put one up at my bi-fold closet door, it kind of sticks to the door but tuck it in at top and sides. Works perfect for me as well.

Faintly Artistic

2 large pieces of thick cardboard with a $3 fleece blanket from the dollar store. Taped the 2 pieces of cardboard together so it can be folded and used binder clips to keep fleece on it. Cheap and portable. Would like to find a folding room screen that could be decorative on one side and fleece on the other so it wouldn't look bad in dining room if company is over.[ATTACH=CONFIG]583290[/ATTACH]

cashs_mom

I use insulation covered with flannel. I have 2 of them and they are not fastened to the wall. I can move them around where I want. If I'm working on something smaller or just at the start of a project, I put one behind the other to save space. When the project is larger, I shut the closet door and put them side by side.

fallonquilter

I like to stand back and look at what I am creating so the floor or bed will not work for me. My husband put up 2 sheets of insulation board and then we covered it with batting. Works great. It's the one thing besides my sewing machine I can't do without. Use it ALL the time.