I’ve long envied quilters with large expansive design walls. They are so useful for holding blocks in process, great for trying out different designs and colour combinations and they give a quilter’s sewing room, well, the proper look.
But with rooms given over to the children and general living coupled with wall mounted radiators I don’t have a nice spare wall. But it did strike me that maybe I could squeeze In half a design wall….
Utilising a quilt that was neither fish nor fowl in that it was an odd size, rather stiff from lots of quilting and hadn’t really found a home it could double up as a large wallhanging and then on the reverse, with the addition of gridded flannel it could be a design wall!
It was a simple job of inserting a 6mm pole into the binding channel which is a tip I picked up from Barbara over at Cat Patches (quite the funniest blog around)
and then sewed on the grey flannel. In fact with the benefit of hindsight I should have reversed the process.
Anyway here it is up as a wallhanging…
And a quick turn round – a design wall, at last!
Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts and Quokka Quilts/TGIFF
The Lilac Cat 
You are so clever! This is such a great idea! When the need to have the decorator touch, you can just flip over the design wall to show the great quilt! I also like that rod pocket idea!
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Great idea, I might steal it for my workroom. Just need to decide which quilt to use as a wall hanging 😉
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I was thinking about doing the exact same thing! I’m inspired to get on with it now!
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I use a beige queen size flat flannelette sheet, with a rod threaded through the top hem, hung from three hooks high up on the wall. It’s not as substantial as your lovely hanging, and it does flap a bit in the breeze from the aircon, but it’s huge and you can take it down if you need to. I can’t do without it any more!
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What a fantastic idea!! Love the front and the block on the back.
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