Thread: Storing fabric

Before I was able to store my fabrics on shelving, I used clear plastic totes to store mine. Of course, I was in it constantly so the tops of the containers were opened frequently!

I use plastic and never ran into problems until now. Purchased clear plastic tub, topped of with lid. Opened a month later and a weird plastic smell! Had to was everything again! Never had trouble before, back to the store and stuck my head in the same tub.Wow! Did not notice the oder before. I know I looked weird. But lesson learned. Has to pass thebreath it all in test next time!

Originally Posted by chairjogger

I use plastic and never ran into problems until now. Purchased clear plastic tub, topped of with lid. Opened a month later and a weird plastic smell! Had to was everything again! Never had trouble before, back to the store and stuck my head in the same tub.Wow! Did not notice the oder before. I know I looked weird. But lesson learned. Has to pass thebreath it all in test next time!

This also happened to me but I have to store in plastic bins. What I did is I bought some of those little votive
candles from Yankee Candles.They have room freshner ones and that cured that plastic smell for good and now
the fabric smells very nice when you use it and is gone by the time you are finished with your project.

I store my fabric in a lot of places, too little storage, or too much fabric??? : ). My dh put shelves in my little sewing room closet. there I store large quantity fabric wrapped around the store cardboard things that came from Joann's, (standing like they do in JoAnn's). in front of them, I have the small yardage folded somewhat by color.On the bottom, I have a plastic bin of civil war scraps. I store fabric in clear plastic bins in other closets in the guest room. Then there is more fabric in hope chests in the attic walk in. My advice to you is where ever you store fabric, keep it out of any day light. The day light will fade fabric along the fold - happened to me years ago. My stash is just too large. My goal is now just to buy what I will use for a project. I steer clear of fabric stores, unless I am looking for something specific. Sometimes I can, other times I fall right off the wagon!!

LOL!! I to laugh about your 1st sentence, "I store my fabric in a lot of places, too little storage, or too much fabric???"

I use plastic gallon ice cream & butter buckets (run through the dishwasher 1st of course...), as well as plastic shoe boxes, pirouette cans, plastic filing boxes; OH, my fave so far is those large Enfamil GentlEase baby formula plastic storage containers!!!

Pretty much anything that comes to me free, or was originally used to store something else & is reusable!!

my fabric is folded around my 6x24 ruler [then remove the ruler] and stacked by color on [plastic?] garage storage shelves. you might want to check out the QB's organization forum here http://www.quiltingboard.com/mission-organization-f23/