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Design wall .... redux
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:04:21 GMT, "TwinMom"
wrote: Here's another idea for you to ponder. You know those kinda cheap roll-up bamboo matchstick shades - think Pier One or Cost Plus if there is one near you. Anyway, wait for a sale or use a coupon to get the best price. What you are really after is those tough, strong, lightweight top & bottom bamboo poles (pre-drilled mind you) and all the pulley hardware!! A cheaper and easier version would be to buy a wide vinyl roll-up shade, remove the vinyl, staple on a flannel sheet, take rod out of bottom of vinyl and put in bottom of the flannel. A possibly easier version would be to unroll the shade and apply the flannel sheet to the vinyl with a spray adhesive. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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Design wall .... redux
Does your DH think you need something to stick pins into? The whole idea of
the design wall (mine's a big piece of felt stuff from Keepsake Quilting, tacked over wood panelling) is that you can just smooth your blocks onto it and they stick. Easy to move around until you get the design just right. I'm not opposed to cork, of course, but make sure there's a way to cover it with the clingy material of your choice. Roberta in D "Sunny" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ups.com... Thank you all, you have given me many excellent ideas to chew on. My DH has suggested putting cork on the wall.... what do any of you think of this? (Obviously, I wouldn't be taking it anywhere, LOL). Anyways, I'm gonna sit back and read all these ideas carefully, ask DH to take a look, and make my list. It may be a few weeks before I get my room all squared away, but it will be grand and I will have a design wall. BG BTW, did I tell you I'm getting my own room??? Sunny On Jan 26, 11:04 pm, "TwinMom" wrote: Here's another idea for you to ponder. You know those kinda cheap roll-up bamboo matchstick shades - think Pier One or Cost Plus if there is one near you. Anyway, wait for a sale or use a coupon to get the best price. What you are really after is those tough, strong, lightweight top & bottom bamboo poles (pre-drilled mind you) and all the pulley hardware!! If you carefully unscrew and remove the pulley hardware & pulley string, you can then cut the upper & lower threads to get rid of the interior "matchstick" material. (It's kinda heavy also.) Save it for another project if you'd like, maybe a floor covering. Once the inner shade is removed, you can replace it with a nice quality flannel sheet. Simply thread the poles through the top and bottom hems of the sheet, poke the little holes in the top area for the hardware to re-attach at the top pole, rethread the pulley string and waa-laa, you have a flannel roll-up shade!!! It's extremely portable and lightweight. I take mine to retreats with WIP's still attached, simply hang, unroll and go. BTW - buy the shade the correct width for the size of sheet you are using, ignore the length because it will end up being the length of your flannel. Sounds like a "duh", but it almost tripped me up once in making one. Lorraine in La Center |
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Thanks for confirming that this could work. I was sure I had seen someone
post about doing this a long time ago. The new house we are hoping to move to has a wall of bookcases in the loft I plan on using as my space and I was thinking of a roll up system for a design wall that could pull down over the bookshelves when needed. Geez, we don't even own the place yet and already I want to run out and buy a blind and a sheet! Patience, Patience... Marilyn in Alberta, Canada "Debra" wrote in message news On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:04:21 GMT, "TwinMom" wrote: Here's another idea for you to ponder. You know those kinda cheap roll-up bamboo matchstick shades - think Pier One or Cost Plus if there is one near you. Anyway, wait for a sale or use a coupon to get the best price. What you are really after is those tough, strong, lightweight top & bottom bamboo poles (pre-drilled mind you) and all the pulley hardware!! A cheaper and easier version would be to buy a wide vinyl roll-up shade, remove the vinyl, staple on a flannel sheet, take rod out of bottom of vinyl and put in bottom of the flannel. A possibly easier version would be to unroll the shade and apply the flannel sheet to the vinyl with a spray adhesive. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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hey Debra, I like that idea! I have mine on foam board, but it isn't big
enough. Your idea would work great in my studio which on a couple occassions / year has to double as a spare room for children to visit. -- Boca Jan Florida - Land of the Hurricanes http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/poo_de_doo/myphotos "Debra" wrote in message news On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:04:21 GMT, "TwinMom" wrote: Here's another idea for you to ponder. You know those kinda cheap roll-up bamboo matchstick shades - think Pier One or Cost Plus if there is one near you. Anyway, wait for a sale or use a coupon to get the best price. What you are really after is those tough, strong, lightweight top & bottom bamboo poles (pre-drilled mind you) and all the pulley hardware!! A cheaper and easier version would be to buy a wide vinyl roll-up shade, remove the vinyl, staple on a flannel sheet, take rod out of bottom of vinyl and put in bottom of the flannel. A possibly easier version would be to unroll the shade and apply the flannel sheet to the vinyl with a spray adhesive. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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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 |
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The only time I use pins on my design wall is when I have the design
finalized, and I don't want my "helpers" to rearrange things. Otherwise, I just stick them up. My design wall is a large piece of Warm & Natural cotton batting, stapled to a 1"x2" piece of wood, 6' long. This is then hung by hook and eye, mounted to the ceiling moulding. I thought I might want to be able to take it down... but that's never happened. ;-P Wendy Roberta Zollner wrote: Does your DH think you need something to stick pins into? The whole idea of the design wall (mine's a big piece of felt stuff from Keepsake Quilting, tacked over wood panelling) is that you can just smooth your blocks onto it and they stick. Easy to move around until you get the design just right. I'm not opposed to cork, of course, but make sure there's a way to cover it with the clingy material of your choice. Roberta in D "Sunny" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ups.com... Thank you all, you have given me many excellent ideas to chew on. My DH has suggested putting cork on the wall.... what do any of you think of this? (Obviously, I wouldn't be taking it anywhere, LOL). Anyways, I'm gonna sit back and read all these ideas carefully, ask DH to take a look, and make my list. It may be a few weeks before I get my room all squared away, but it will be grand and I will have a design wall. BG BTW, did I tell you I'm getting my own room??? Sunny On Jan 26, 11:04 pm, "TwinMom" wrote: Here's another idea for you to ponder. You know those kinda cheap roll-up bamboo matchstick shades - think Pier One or Cost Plus if there is one near you. Anyway, wait for a sale or use a coupon to get the best price. What you are really after is those tough, strong, lightweight top & bottom bamboo poles (pre-drilled mind you) and all the pulley hardware!! If you carefully unscrew and remove the pulley hardware & pulley string, you can then cut the upper & lower threads to get rid of the interior "matchstick" material. (It's kinda heavy also.) Save it for another project if you'd like, maybe a floor covering. Once the inner shade is removed, you can replace it with a nice quality flannel sheet. Simply thread the poles through the top and bottom hems of the sheet, poke the little holes in the top area for the hardware to re-attach at the top pole, rethread the pulley string and waa-laa, you have a flannel roll-up shade!!! It's extremely portable and lightweight. I take mine to retreats with WIP's still attached, simply hang, unroll and go. BTW - buy the shade the correct width for the size of sheet you are using, ignore the length because it will end up being the length of your flannel. Sounds like a "duh", but it almost tripped me up once in making one. Lorraine in La Center |
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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 |
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Design wall .... redux
Ok, I'm a bit weird this way. My design wall is whatever big open
space I can find at the moment. However, what I do is buy the batting for the size quilt I want to make and pin it up on the wall. Then I put blocks up on the batting itself until I have it just the way I want! So not only am I storing the batting and getting the wrinkles out of the batting, I'm also adjust my quilt top to make sure I'm getting it the right size! I do have a small piece of leftover batting hanging in another spot on a wall to put up a block or two of long-term projects that I can just leave up for inspiration. Dannielle |
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Design wall .... redux
On 28 Jan 2007 11:20:42 -0800, "Dannielle"
wrote: Ok, I'm a bit weird this way. My design wall is whatever big open space I can find at the moment. However, what I do is buy the batting for the size quilt I want to make and pin it up on the wall. Then I put blocks up on the batting itself until I have it just the way I want! So not only am I storing the batting and getting the wrinkles out of the batting, I'm also adjust my quilt top to make sure I'm getting it the right size! I do have a small piece of leftover batting hanging in another spot on a wall to put up a block or two of long-term projects that I can just leave up for inspiration. Dannielle Oh, what a great idea. Debra in VA See my quilts at http://community.webshots.com/user/debplayshere |
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