While the foam board seams go East-West, my flannel seam goes North-South for stability (which you can see in the photo, right in the middle). Slipping a screw into a washer, we placed them top and bottom and two on each side of the foam insulation seam. We followed her advice and purchased these screws and these washers. The staples did NOT like to go through a double layer of flannel, and we didn’t quite stretch hard enough, but it doesn’t affect the performance in the least. Like Christa, we laid out the flannel, and stretched it around the boards, stapling it in place. I taped around the cut edges of the socket hole. I don’t know what it was, but it really holds. We even checked it against the real wall.īack down in the dining room, on the dining room table, we taped the two insulation sheets together using white duct tape, only better stuff than duct tape. We took that upstairs and traced around it, then double-and-triple checked it. First (above) a template made out of newspaper). Then we had to account for the outlet on my sewing room wall. We used a linoleum knife, which has a hooked shape and a sharp blade on the inside curve. My room is much smaller than Christa’s, so we had to cut down the insulation. I cut it into two three-yard lengths, sewed it together along the one long (3-yard side), matching the grids. I did NOT pre-shrink it, as I needed every inch. Measure before you buy, as we had Just Enough. So I hunted/haunted the internet and soon found a gridded flannel made by Robert Kaufman on Amazon, and snapped up six yards. I didn’t want to use a giant bed sheet like she had, as I had been spoiled by having a grid on my old design wall. So I used the advice found in Christa Watson’s post, and purchased two insulation sheets at our local Big Box Construction store. And the next best thing was going to cost me over a hundred bucks. In the past my design wall was made of foam core artboard, but when I went looking for it this time, it was not to be found in the size/thickness I needed.
I paid them in cookies.Īfter I winnowed down the boxes, the fun began: the design wall needs to take shape. When I got home, I realized there was no way I could get it upstairs (my husband was traveling) so the young men across the street who lift weights for fun, were willing and able to get it upstairs for me. I had wanted a glass top on my sewing desk for-e-ver, and bit the bullet and had a piece of glass cut really big to fit the top. We eventually moved all the boxes back into the sewing room, and it’s pretty daunting to see all your stash that way.
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