How do you store fabric strips?
#41
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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I ask for the empty cardboard from a bolt of fabric at the fabric shop, then I wrap my strips (and binding if I am not using it right away) around it. Since it is cardboard I can pin it in the cardboard at the beginning and end. then set it up against a wall....not space taken up.
#44
Ditto
Originally Posted by leiladylei54
I usually hang them on a hanger...the pants part of it and then into the closet for safe keeping while working on a project. If I'm not planning anything specific at the time I'm doing the ironing and cutting, then I roll it up like the jelly rolls. All the same fabric print in a roll and then stored in a shallow bin.
#45
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Great ideas.. This will help me not Have to waste time experimenting with trial and error methods. I use pizza boxes and jelly roll too putting a piece of duck tape on the last one.
I have a different question tho related. I often buy fabric for a particular project but forget which project it is for if I delay starting for some time. Do you photo copy the pattern or put the original in the place holding the fabric you chose? Thank you for so many choices. Do those of you who use rungs on things not have cats? My cat would have a large fabric toy if I hung my strips off of rungs.
I have a different question tho related. I often buy fabric for a particular project but forget which project it is for if I delay starting for some time. Do you photo copy the pattern or put the original in the place holding the fabric you chose? Thank you for so many choices. Do those of you who use rungs on things not have cats? My cat would have a large fabric toy if I hung my strips off of rungs.
#48
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Originally Posted by MomtoBostonTerriers
I have been cutting my fabric scraps into strips (a la Bonnie Hunter) and wonder how I should store them until I get those quilts made. I'm starting out cutting 1.5", 2", and 2.5" strips. I have all colors mixed together by strip width. Right now I have them in neat, ironed stacks all over my cutting table.
Do you have a system for storing these strips that works well? Please tell me what to do so I can get my table cleared off and get to work sewing!
Do you have a system for storing these strips that works well? Please tell me what to do so I can get my table cleared off and get to work sewing!
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