Re: Quilter's Design Wall
- From: "Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." <quilteacher@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Jul 2006 17:34:44 -0700
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 in MO.
Karen Garza wrote:
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
.
- References:
- Quilter's Design Wall
- From: Karen Garza
- Quilter's Design Wall
- Prev by Date: Sneaky Kate, was: OT: Need to vent--badly (very long!)
- Next by Date: Re: OT: Upate ( medical advice for IBC)
- Previous by thread: Quilter's Design Wall
- Next by thread: Re: Quilter's Design Wall
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
