Design wall .... redux

There might be a drawback to this one,
Marilyn. If you have a bunch of quilt
pieces on the surface, but need to
access the book case what happens to the
design? WOuld you roll up the shade with
the pieces on it, then roll it out
again? If so, would they stay neat and
in position?
PAT, wondering in chilly Virginia

Marigold wrote:

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

I did a combination - I used foam board like others have mentioned but
attached it 'non-permanently' with hooks on the wall near the ceiling
like you......not that I want to take it down of course!
Allison

frood wrote:
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

Mine do on the bamboo/sheet/pulley string setup. Since it rolls from the
bottom up, it can be raised as much as needed. If it is a large and/or
complex project, I might put a pin in the pieces, parallel to the roll up
bars, but my projects are Very Portable.

Hmmm... good question
I guess I was thinking that I would be able to just roll it up or even lift
it away from the bookcase, get what I wanted and let it back down.
If the pieces cling fairly well, I'm thinking that rolling it up with pieces
still on shouldn't be too big a problem. Less trouble-some than having to
pick them up off the floor cause the grandchildren are coming, or I'm
feeling guilty for locking the dogs out.
Guess I should just make sure that the books I reference most often are not
behind my design wall!
Thanks for making me think about it.

Marilyn
in Alberta, Canada


"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
...
There might be a drawback to this one, Marilyn. If you have a bunch of
quilt pieces on the surface, but need to access the book case what happens
to the design? WOuld you roll up the shade with the pieces on it, then
roll it out again? If so, would they stay neat and in position?
PAT, wondering in chilly Virginia

Marigold wrote:

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

I stapled fleece to a vinyl shade and I could roll it up with blocks on it
and it worked fine.

Since my stash shelving is now wider than the 72" shade I had, I was going
to make Roman shades using fusible fleece backed with blackout fabric to
cover up my stash and serve as a design wall, but it occurs to me now that I
wouldn't be able to fold it up and hope to keep any blocks on it. Hmmm, back
to the rollup shade. I'm glad I didn't already make them.

--
Valerie in FL
My quilts: http://community.webshots.com/user/vjkahler


"Pat in Virginia" wrote in message
...
There might be a drawback to this one, Marilyn. If you have a bunch of
quilt pieces on the surface, but need to access the book case what happens
to the design? WOuld you roll up the shade with the pieces on it, then
roll it out again? If so, would they stay neat and in position?
PAT, wondering in chilly Virginia

Marigold wrote:

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

My design wall IS a roll up blind, sort of. I bought an empty blind roller
(about $6) and attached a flannel backed tablecloth (another $6) to it (it's
only fairly small). It rolls up and everything stays in place. If anything,
it would get squished more into place by the pressure of the roll of "wall".
--
Leigh Harris
Perth, Western Australia

"Pat in Virginia" wrote
There might be a drawback to this one, Marilyn. If you have a bunch of
quilt pieces on the surface, but need to access the book case what
happens to the design? WOuld you roll up the shade with the pieces on it,
then roll it out again? If so, would they stay neat and in position?
PAT, wondering in chilly Virginia

Marigold wrote:

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