Yard Sale Find - What to use it for?
 

Found this wire rack at a yard sale for $3.00. (Score!) Love it for my sewing room. Now ... how can I best put this to good use?

Well, you're off to a good start....fabric! I never have enough surface to store stuff. This looks like a fab find. Where in bama are you? I am in Dothan. Linda

Looks like excellent place to store fabric to me.

you could hang them on the wall infront of your sewing table....will allow for storage close toyou but it won't take up space on your table.

If they were mine I would sort all of my bagged up UFO projects and put them in the wire so when I was in the mood to pull one out....they would just be in my line of sight.

I like this idea. Great place to store items that are put together already.

Fabric, fabric and MORE fabric. Looks way too empty right now to me.

I have several sets of these for fabric and yarn storage. May I suggest using cable ties to make sure that it stays together. Fabric can weigh alot and I had the set I put into a closet collapse after I had neatly folded and stored all my fabric. I had to pull all the fabric out and put it back together. The cable ties really work!

stuff it full of fabric!!!! Lol. That is a great deal on the wire rack. I like it alot.

Fabric, fabric and more fabric!

get some 'S' hooks and use like a peg board on the outside of the two sides...inside still available for fabric...

I have a similar shelf in my sewing area. I placed a radio for MY listening, other shelves are projects waiting to be completed.

I have the same rack I also purchased at a yard sale. Mines is four shelves tall and three shelves wide. I have mines in the closet in my sewing room with fabric on it.

Myself, I would lay it on its side and use it for fabric, paint a board the length of the rack width on its side and put my books on top along with some baskets with thread, rulers, and templates.

Magazine, book and pattern rack.
I'd not put fabric in it until I was sure it wasn't going to rust.

On second thought-----------how about some baskets to fill with the stuff you need to move around a lot, like sewing notions?

OH MY! I love these things! I have them under my cutting table in the sewing room and in the closet in the long arm room! ( I got a room everytime a kid moved out..but I'm done with rooms, not the last kid!) The ones in the sewing room have those plastic crates in them. I have strips in one, pulled projects in one, big pieces for backing. I even have a shelf on one for smaller containers. I have them in white and in colors from the kids area! Oh..and I have a couple cubes in the family room for my son's sports equipment!

Deemail suggested S hooks. I would use those or metal shower hooks to hang my rulers on the outside. You could put your fabric on the boards cut to the bin size for storing your fabic. You could also run dowel through two squares on either side of a bin for storing ribbon reels? You could glue spools on the outside end of the dowels to keep them in place. You could also place it laying flat on the floor for magazine storage or along the shelf in a closet for fabric storage?

All great ideas. I even ordered replacement corner pieces for the wire squares I got with no connections. The company was easy to deal with and sent the replacement parts right away.

I think fabric because of the size of the cube maybe even kits if you buy them. Looks like a great find. Have fun filling it up. Sue

Well since I use fleece for backing most of my quilts, I buy lots of rolled fleece remnants of 1-2 yards. This would make a perfect place to store rolls of fleece until they are needed for backing a quilt. :D

Hang things from the sides like tools, hoops, etc.

I like it too!QUOTE=MoanaWahine;4691449]I like this idea. Great place to store items that are put together already.[/QUOTE]

I have my Australian Patchwork and quilting magazines in mine. well, one box/cube anyway. fabrics and stuff in the others.

Y'all are absolutely the BEST! I just knew you would have some fabulous ideas, and you surely did not let me down! WONDERFUL ideas, just wonderful! And I thank you sooooooo much. I am going to implement as many of them as I can! Now I am wanting more of these things! Another yard sale, maybe??? (No such luck!) Blessings to all!

Fabric, definitely. But the first thing I thought of was using something to hang quilting templates off the sides, too - or small rulers, hoops, etc. Great buy!

I would love to use it for batting and fiberfil that take up alot of space, but visible to know how much I have on hand.

Cable ties = great idea! I already had them fall apart bringing them in the house and had to restack them, so knew they came apart easily. I have some pretty little pastel-colored cable ties that will work great! Thanks!

I would have to make little fabric covered boxes to fit in each section, and then store notions and odds and ends in them, maybe patterns. Fabric might weigh to much for this type of storage space.

I like the UFO idea. I have a smaller version of this. I use clean "freezer food" boxes. (i.e. corn dog boxes, pizza boxes, etc.) I wrap the boxes like Christmas presents (minus the ribbon & bow) and then label each one (in pencil so it can be reused) and store them in order of preferred completion. Right now there are 5 UFOs on the rack.

Gotta love yard/garage sales for storage items! You're lucky (or are you) that they still happen November through April by you. They don't start up again till April around here due to old man winter.

It also looks like that can be placed horizontal too - so my suggestion it to put in on top of something like a cabinet or dresser.

post a picture of what you do with it.

lots & lots of fabric!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would do books if you dont have a lot books would fit nicely in them

I, also, would use it to store "kits" either your own and purchased one.

The inside just cries for fabric, but I would also get hooks and use the outer surface to hang rulers and other such notions. I have seen this type of display in stores.

Cute rack, especially for the price. I would use it for future projects I am collecting fabric for.
Easy to see what I have, what I need. Or for projects I am currently working on, easy to keep everything organized.
Be sure to keep it out of the sunlight, may need to put it in a closet.

Fill it with fatquarters.

I also like this idea. I have my UFO's in tote's stored in my sewing closet or under my cutting/ironing table but after awhile I forget which UFO is in which tote. I'd store my UFO's in clear pastic baggies so in a glance I could find what I want. May in Jersey

I like what you're doing with it- fabric!!! :D
Great find!!

I see it FULL to overflowing with fabric!! Great find.

cool thing with those shelves, that if you want you can tear them apart, and make a different layout.....Love those things