Quilt design board

Tutorial: How to Build a Design Wall for Quilting – Christa Quilts

A quick tutorial on how to make a portable and inexpensive design wall for your sewing room, with items easily found at your local hardware store.

Those of you who have been following our YouTube channel for a while will have noticed a number of changes in what we have in the background. It's all about being able to keep things neat and tidy while showcasing what we are working on in the video at the time. We found that having a piece of batting on the wall worked quite well, but it wasn't terribly attractive so we came up with the idea of putting the batting onto a canvas board. Now we tried a few techniques and kept ending up with…

Portable design board makes it easy for organizing quilting projects. A must have tool for quilting. Make one or purchase ready made ones.

If you've been searching for a way to spruce up your quilt studio, then this is the project for you! Layout your fabric swatches, blocks, and patterns before quilting by learning how to Make Your Own Design Board. With just a little bit of crafting and some batting, you can make a design board that allows you to layout your entire design before piecing it together. This DIY design board can be propped up on a table or displayed on a wall, and is a great way to visualize how your finished…

I've wanted to have a stack of design boards for a long time. They're super handy for keeping track of the pieces whenever you have a block that you need to lay out before you can sew it. The fabric pieces stick to the batting, so you don't have to worry about anything getting mixed up! To make the

Hi everyone! We're huge fans of Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet. One of our favorite things about her is her creativity and her famous design boards! If you

I'm excited to show you how I make my design boards that I told you about in my last post! I made 6 of them that measure 10" x 10" to use when making my 6" blocks... of course you can make as many as you want and in any size according to the projects that you are currently working on. I have several sizes that I use all the time... including ones that are as large as the foam board that I use to make them with. You can get foam core board at any office supply store and usually most…

Top US quilting blog, Diary of a Quilter, features a tutorial on how to make your own DIY Quilt Design Wall. Click now for step-by-step instructions!

I finally have a quilt design wall in my new house and I'm so excited! There really is nothing like being able to step back and see an entire quilt like this! And I'm going to show you (in excruciating detail) how I built mine - including the specific materials I used. I'll also show

In our old digs my design wall was limited to ONE. Now with the studio I have my own padded room;) I had one wall space left that I was told needed a bumper to protect the wall from ambitious pressers yielding an iron;) I also had two smaller pieces of cut insulation board that...Read More »

I have moved into my new sewing space, and although it isn’t finished, it HAD to get a design wall ASAP. I had making to do! After poking around the interwebz, I cobbled together bits of what…

* DIY Design Board instructions: Wrap batting [maybe fleece] around a very large artist's canvas & staple to the back of the frame.

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Well, all you handymen, of course.....but was I listening, well frankly, NO. I'm now officially a Duct Tape convert . I've been putting ...

I made a design wall for my sewing room, and I am so happy with how it works! I know there are several design wall ideas out there, some are good for portable projects (think flannel backed tablecloths that can be rolled up and packed away quilt blocks and all). I am working in my temporary sewing room while my new workshop is under construction. This space is small, without a lot of wall space, so I needed a semi-portable design wall that I could move around the room. It also needed to be…

I recently got a bug in my bonnet telling me that I could really use a design wall for my scrappy quilt projects that I love to sort of let come together as I go. In past homes, with large sewing rooms, I just did this kind of thing on the floor, but in my current very small sewing room, I don’t hav

The design block is a fabulous sewing aid that helps keep quilt blocks in place. Learn how to make a design board out of foam core, batting, and bias tape.