Thanks to Suze and the gals from Quilt Studio, my design wall is now operational! Yesterday, I rushed out to purchase the cafe rod, and installed it myself this very morning (just call me Tool-Time-Laura). I added a binding I had intended for one of my UFOs to the top of the fleece panel to reinforce it and used some curtain clips I had in a drawer. This is only one of the panels, about 60×90 inches. When I finish binding the second one, they should be about 80×90 inches altogether, and expandable to 120×90 inches if I had a larger wall (as if I could ever quilt something that huge, but it would hold several sanely-sized projects at once.)
As you can see, I couldn’t resist testing it out before the second panel is completed and I LOVE it! I don’t know how I ever got along without one for so long.
There is positively NO WAY I could ever lay out a couple hundred 3-inch blocks on the floor. That is why I have had a drawer full of these rail fence blocks in my studio for several years now. My 5 year-old daughter absolutely loves the design wall too and used some leftover triangles to create “geese” on the wall (another quilter in the making, also has her own collection of UFOs) .
This quilt will be for my sister who was in an auto accident last week. No serious injuries, but she’s pretty bruised up.
happy quilting!
Look at you go! Never stop a gal with a good idea! RF looks great!
Your design wall and the quilt look great. Lots of room and I like the idea of using a curtain rod. I’m trying to figure out how to do one that I can roll up above my doors when I’m not using it and roll it down when I need to. Joe is great at figuring out things like this so I need to discuss it with him.
What a neat idea. I even like the funky rings. Very artsy!