Quick and Simple Design Wall
by Care
I can't believe I've been making quilts as long as I have without any kind of design wall! A design wall is an area on your wall where you can lay out quilt blocks to come up with a layout for your quilt. The advantages are numerous -- I've always laid out my quilts on the floor, which works fine. But with little ones running around, my time is limited to naps and "after hours." Generally there just isn't enough time to lay out my quilt and get a really good look at it without it getting tromped on. Consequently I tend to end up with areas that I would have changed a little bit if I'd had more time to really look at the layout.
With a design wall you can leave your quilt laid out for hours, days, or even weeks if you want to -- because it's up on the wall and out of the way! Well, today my mom Wendy of Old Days Old Ways shows us how to make an awesome design wall using mostly dollar store items! Her idea is adaptable, so you could make a design wall of any size! She is a genius! [go to tutorial]
Project Materials:
- 2 foam core boards, $1 each
- 2 poster boards, 2/$1
- 1 yard white flannel, $2.50 with coupon
- adhesive spray, on hand
- duct tape, on hand
Total: $5.50 and up
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Your mom IS a genius. Thanks for linking to one of her posts – she is awesome! This is a great idea.
Great and simple too.
OK, this one I am going to have to link to from my blog. A lot of my customers are quilters, and I be they would LOVE this! Thank you so much for sharing, I want to run home and make one for myself now! Here’s my blog if you want to check it out. I’ll try and remember to come back and post when I link it so you can see. :)
I made one of these and it works great!
sandy
[...] and I created a simple design wall (white flannel wrapped foam board). I got the idea from here. I added 4 inch grid lines on the board before I wrapped it. This will help keep things straight [...]
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