Hanging the Design Wall

I left my house super early to do my shopping at Lowe's before my knitting group started. I live an hour away and the time change to Eastern makes me do these things.
These styrofoam panels were my only choice and I was way disappointed that my nice blue dense styrofoam wasn't available at this Lowe's. I am seriously considering heading up to the other nearby (1 hour also) Lowe's to see if they have what I really want.

See these that I used for my dye platters? They were 2" thick but I only need 1/2" thick, so therein lies the dilemma.
Anyway, I have what I have at the moment, so this is what I plan to do.







At Lowe's I was only able to find the hooks that hold five pounds of weight. I wanted the 8 pounders.

 Some of them were on sale, so I felt I could buy all that they had, and return whatever I didn't use. Later I found them cheaper at Wal-Mart, but I couldn't get all that I might need, so I am OK with these. Nice of you guys to tell me about the coupon on www.command.com but I was already gone by the time you commented.



I considered that the weight of a heavy quilt on this wall would too much for these hooks so I came up with Plan B. This will work for me, because of my existing hanging system.
Note: I am not going to put nails or anchors in my wall.

The Duck tape and washers are my ace in the hole for HANGING the boards.
Stay with me...










Just to test the size of these hooks, I slid one over the edge of the 1/2" board. Works...!

The paper and foil sides of these boards must be covered and I wanted cotton batting in one piece to do the job.

Wal-mart now carries batting and the first store I visited had no queen/king size batts. Darn. But they did have full size 80/20 batts reduced from $13 to $5, so I got all of them.They are 81x96" vs the Queens which are 110x110". The next Walmart I stopped at had the queen size and I got two of those for the two sets of design walls I plan to mount.







Here's my hanging system. (Thanks for sticking with me on this long and involved story).  I had my contractor slide in the rail (Rubbermaid closet stuff, also from Lowe's) under the crown molding, knowing I wanted to be able to hang lots of stuff in my studio, and not have holes in the wall.
I should also mention that my walls have texture sprayed on them which makes me a bit squeamish about the stickability of the hooks I plan to use.  Not to worry though, since they will be merely stabilizing the panels, as I plan to hang them with my duct tape and washers idea.
Here's the plan, see diagrams below. Tape the edges all around with Duck tape, and then add another two layers at the top as in this picture, inserting the washers between the two layers. Then I will cut an opening and thread my heavy nylon fishline through and hang the panels.
Anchor the panels with the Command hooks is next and then pin on the batting and I am done.

Does this seem like a lot of work to you? It does to me. But then when I am done I will have two Jim Dandy design walls and renewed vigor (as the Kennedys used to say) for making lots more pieced quilts. Did you know that when I fused a quilt, I didn't use a design wall and just composed everything flat on my work surface...Imagine that.