Mini Design Wall: just a few items and a few minutes!

I have a full size design wall across the room, and it works wonderfully! I love being able to put up my finished blocks while a quilt top is in progress. When I got my long arm I had to downsize my sewing/cutting table from a giant dining room table (down from oversized auditorium doors) to a desk. So being as I always had giant sewing tables, I felt like I didn’t have enough room for all my sewing, cutting, block layout needs. That’s when lighting bolt hit, why don’t I take down the calendar above my machine and make a little design wall at my space. It’s large enough to hold a lot, but small enough to not over power the area or need any heavy duty materials.

I only needed a few things that I coincidentally already had on hand!

  • Scrap Batting
  • Foam Poster Board
  • Double Sided Tape
  • 3M Command Strips
  • Knife/scissors if needing to cut to size
Measure out the size the board needs to be if not using the whole board
Score and cut down foam poster board to the size you want it to be. Once the board is scored with the scissors or knife, it’s’ really easy to snap it making a beautiful straight line.
Lay out a piece of scrap batting on the floor and place the board on top. Make sure there is about a 2 inch over hang on all sides.
Use the double sided tape to secure the batting all around the board. It’s now ready to hang! I cut two command strips in half and used those in each corner and hung the board right next to my machine. Now I can sew and put all my pieces for the block up on the wall right in front of me!

Want to see the wall being made in sped up action? I posted a reel on my Instagram feed of me making my mini wall.

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