Friday 21 September 2007

Design Walls

I'm in the process of designing a permanent design wall.

The white sheet held up by will power over the cookery book cupboard is ok temporarily, but it keeps on falling down and when I need to get to the books I can't!

We've got lots of old cork tiles lying about the place and I thought of sticking them to a wall and then pinning the sheet on.

I can't have anything too difficult to make up. With walls somewhere between 1 and 2m thick it is impossible to hammer in nails or drill holes.

So answers on a postcard please and a link to a photo might be helpful too.

TIA

7 comments:

Hedgehog said...

Don't have much experience to share here. I did staple a huge piece of felt to the top of a wooden door and used the back of the door as a small design wall one summer. It was easy to hide when needed. Otherwise, I have weird woven wallpaper here and I just pin things into it. Thick stone/cement is certainly tricky! Cork sounds like a good place to start.

nicolette said...

I wish I had some space to make me a quilt-wall, so I don’t and can’t realy help you. I have read about quilters making some kind of wall from softboard, so you can pin the fabrics on it, but maybe you should google ‘how to put a softboard on a thick Dordogne wall’. Who knows.....

joyce said...

I have two pieces of styrofoam insulation covered with flannel. They are nailed to the wall but I think they are so light that you could even use double sided carpet tape to keep them up. I love it because you can easily pin into it if the pieces are too big to stick to the flannel.

Holly said...

I can't help you much as all I use is the flannel side of a vinyl tablecloth pinned to a wall. It's not big enough for most projects. I'll be interested in the other suggestions you get.

Funny expression on the cat! Great tie-dying/bleaching. You have been buuuusy!

michael5000 said...

I like to do layout horizontically rather than vertically, so to speak, which basically means on the floor. Hard on the knees, but even that has the advantage of forcing frequent breaks -- good for keeping your eyes fresh.

I lay out a flannel sheet, and if the pieces are small I pin them on before rolling it up and stashing it away. It's not a perfect system, but it works pretty well for me. Except one time when I forgot to lay the sheet out, just arranged my pieces on the floor, and then was really, really made at myself when it came time to "roll it up"....

Cheri said...

I purchased a portable design wall and give it mixed reviews -- not as stable as I would like. I made a temporary one of very thin batting held to the wall by painter's tape, and I love it! It has turned out to be permanent.

Shnoodle said...

I stapled a flannel sheet to a curtain rod, and am using it like a "quilt roll-up" - http://jeanqueen666.blogspot.com/2007/09/like-quilt-roll-up.html for pix.