Making A Quilt Design Wall

To create the gridlines for placing your blocks mark the fabric every two inches vertically and horizontally then stitch along the grid lines to make a square grid that covers the design wall surface.

Making a quilt design wall.

Design walls are available commercially but it s easy to make an inexpensive portable or permanent quilt design wall. You make this just like a regular quilt with a layer of flannel on top and a layer of batting behind. So one day last week i kept my engineer boy home from school to get him a haircut and after that i enlisted his help in this building project. A quilt design wall is a luxury or some will say a necessity that i have been wanting for a long time.

Click here to get both. You can audition fabrics or block placement and you can get a sense of how your quilt top is taking shape as you position each block in its place. When we moved into our new home the highest priority for me was getting my quilting studio up and running since quilting is my full time job i ve had many people asking me how i built my design wall in my old house so when we created it again in the new place i took step by step pictures so i could tell you all about it in detail. Leave excess foam board all at one end.

Another must have for your sewing room is a drop in table available from most. It works best if you have a dedicated sewing space since the design wall is permanently attached to the wall. Just stretch it out and let it relax naturally. You can use it for aaaanything like arranging fabrics comparing colors organizing finished quilt blocks so many steps of the quilting process can benefit from a design wall.

Smooth out any wrinkles to make as flat as possible. The quilt currently on my design wall is my color weave quilt pattern made from one strip roll of my abstract garden fabric line. A quilt design wall is basically a blank space on the wall where you can project your quilty brain. If your vinyl design wall or tablecloth is wrinkled do not iron it.

Design walls are most often created with a material that sticks to fabric making it easy to position your work on the wall without using pins or other implements to keep pieces in place.