Quilter's Design Wall

Jul 17, 2006 1 Replies
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I am about half way thru piecing a small friendship star quilt. I'm using very bright fabrics and a black background. The start are made up of 14 different fabrics, so I am doing my planning on a small (36 X 36) design wall. I want to see which fabrics should go where. Anyway, I have come to the conclusion that I need a much bigger design wall. (Duh...) My current design wall is just a piece of Quilter's Dream batting. I like the way the fabrics stick to it with no pinning, but I didn't like the stretching that happened to the batting when I was trying to staple it to the wall. Is there something else I should consider using? Maybe flannel? Would the fabrics stick to flannel as well as the Quilter's Dream without pinning? Sorry to be a dunce about this but I just don't use much flannel. thanks



Karen


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Karen-

A cheap plastic tablecloth with flannel backing (often sold by the yard as "oil cloth" for some strange reason) is a popular design wall for many folks. The fabrics will "stick" to the flannel. If you have limited space, the plastic tablecloth side has enough "body" to it that you can take down the design wall with the fabric pieces attached and roll up the tablecloth and store it for later use. I use a very large piece of Warm and Natural for my design wall- but I can't take it down and roll it up since the fabric pieces would also stick to the back side of the WnN- which would make a terrible mess of things.

A design wall should be as large as possible- HUGE in fact! JMNSHO

Leslie & The Furbabies > I am about half way thru piecing a small friendship star quilt. I'm using

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