Design Walls for Quilting

I have 2 quilt design walls in my studio.

This one is 2 layers of 72" Felt By-the-Yard. (available at JoAnn's Fabric)

Please note the price has changed, this photo is from 2017.

It is not necessary to use 2 layers. I just like that it looks whiter.

I stitch the layers together across the top and then create a sleeve so I can put a 2" wide flat metal curtain rod inside the sleeve.

That way I can use Magnetic Invisible Quilt Hangers to hang the design wall without any wall damage. I also use this product to hang the quilts in my house.

They are available on Amazon, kind of pricey but love that quilts just float on the wall.

I do not have to pin to the Felt-By-the-Yard design wall. Fabric pieces just stick. All these fabric pieces for Tula Pink's Queen of Diamonds quilt are just sticking to the Felt By-the-Yard design wall.

Below is my other design wall which is from Felt Right.

The panels come in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors.

They claim the panels can easily be remove with not wall damage.

I can attest that is true. I moved and took the panels down and removed the adhesive tabs that holds the panels on the wall with no damage.

I reorder the adhesive tabs and rehung the panels in my new studio.

At first I was a bit disappointed because fabric shapes do not stick well without pinning.

But I discovered how well it works to organize a quilt you are working on.

I make this quilt for my first granddaughter. Then granddaughter two came along, they have twin beds at my house and I wanting matching quilts.

This quilt pattern is intense. Well written but intense.

I started cutting out the shapes and pinned them to the Felt Right wall.

1. So they would not be wrinkled and they are pretty to look at.

2. There are so many pieces I did not want to sort everything when I am ready to start piecing. Pinning them to the wall keeps them organized.

I label the cuts. Example: Fabric H, Shape K, there are 27 pieces for this shape and fabric.

The templates are pinned to the wall to make them easy to find.

I copied the templates that came with the pattern to English Paper Piecing Made Easy the Blank Sheet package to create self stick templates.

You too can create your own templates for any quilt pattern with this product.

They make it easy to cut the shapes. No sliding. Focus/fussy cut motifs. (See the large diamonds in the photo above.) If not focus cutting you can cut multiple layers at once. The templates are reusable until the no longer stick.

Refer back to the first picture of the Felt Right Design wall to see all all the fabric I have cut using only one template per shape.

If you are an English Paper Piecing fan there are templates for all kinds of shapes.

If English Paper Piecing seems like to much work these templates are game changing.

No basting/gluing, whip-stitching, or pulling paper.
Just move the sticker from shape to shape and straight stitch by hand or machine.

Stick * Cut * Sew

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