I can send you 4 cats to help arrange the blocks. They'd love to help.
Gen


"Sandy Ellison" wrote in message
...
Howdy!

My design wall is on the living room floor.
..oh, wait, my design wall IS the living room floor.
g

This means I have to clean the floor before I throw down blocks..
er..carefully place my well-planned designs on the floor,
which is not a bad thing; even Casual Housekeepers will clear & clean
the floor for a good cause. g
The hardwood flooring makes a lovely backdrop for any fabric,
I can slide around the fabric so easily, re-place and re-submit the
ideas as many times as it takes, the lighting is good so I can
actually see what I'm doing, and I can leave the project right there
until I'm ready to move it (take digital photos of new design layout
before taking another breath!). My designing process usually takes
a day or less so I'm Finished before the floor is required for anything
else, but I'm not done until I'm durned good&ready.
Of course, Stanley dog is NOT allowed in that room during this creative
endeavor and he responds well to the "Out!" command when I can tell that
he's just thinking about taking that next step. There are no small
children
or clumsy-footed visitors in the front room, either.
And I can work in the heart of my home.

YMMV

Ragmop/Sandy--I'm cheap but I'm easy 8-


On 1/27/07 10:22 AM, in article
, "Maureen Wozniak"
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:48:37 -0600, Sunny wrote
(in article .com):

The day is finally here, we will begin switching my sewing stuffand the
computer stuff and in the end I will have my very own dedicated sewing
room. Amazing! I have a wall space that measures 5' x 8' and I want to
use it for a design wall. What's cheap, effective, and will look fairly
decent? Right now I've got a piece of cheap craft felt pinned to a
strip of wall about half that size and my quilt blocks are stuck to
that.

Ok, wade in with the standard excellent ideas. BG

Sunny
(Did I say that I'm getting a room of my own??)


My design wall is a piece of foam board covered with felt (the felt is
stapled to the back). I can stick blocks up on the board or pin them if
I so
desire. When we made my studio, David came up with this idea. The
board is
in a light weight wooden frame and I can prop it up on the ledge of the
chalkboard I have.

There is a photo of it in the sewing studio album:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/mwoz2/albums/

I just took a quick look at these. They are very old, I really should
update
those. Of course, that means I need to take new photos, then figure out
how
to get them onto my laptop since the thieves, while they did not take
the
camera because it was upstairs, took the cradle and USB cord to transfer
from
camera to 'puter.

Maureen