Originally Posted by BettyB
Originally Posted by elkridgequilter
I found out that you CAN have too much fabric in your stash! I store my stash in sweater organizers that hang from the bar in my closet. The bar is part of a wire shelf. We returned from vacation to find that the entire shelf had ripped out of the wall! Fortunately the shelf above had mostly empty boxes on it! The only machine that fell was my embellisher and it seems okay. (Maybe it was the tiny Maryland earthquake that happened while we were gone and not just the weight of my stash). Anyway, I need to redo my closet and am looking for suggestions.
I just have to tell you about my storage space. We had an outdoor swimming pool built in 1984. Sometime in the 90's
my husband decided to enclose it and attached it to the house. In the last few years it was used about 3 times. He decided to fill it in and make me a big quilting room. At first I said no, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea. Here are a few pictures, as you can see you cannot keep your workspace neat if you are using it lol, at least I can't. I didnt take a picture of my cutting table because it is really cluttered, and by the way it use to be a hot tub. The hottub cover is wooden with a vinyl cover. I have a 56 inch cutting board on it.
Whats scary is Im straining my eyes to eyeball YOUR stash and admiring some of the fabrics saying " Hmm i wonder where she got that from".
Im in a one bedroom tiny place, kaka. I have a clear plastic "dresser" on wheels. That has all only yard pieces by the color wheel. I used to be an artist so i think that way. The bigger pieces are in a huge tall cabinet and other dresser drawers. I also have the sweater hanging thingy lol for the closet with fabric in it. When i have a project in mind ( remember i have YET to finish a quilt ) i buy smaller tubs with handles and put all the fabric and directions in the tub so i "remember" what the heck i bought that fabric for. So i keep the whole project together. Some cut fabric is in plastic 2 gallon zip lock bags. Ha Ha NO u dont wanna see how ive managed to hide all the fabric in this 600sq ft place. I dont have a sewing table either so i got a 6ft foldable table. My breakfast bar is my ironing station. And well the threads are from here to there and everywhere in between. Dont ask how i cut my fabric you would be shocked lol.
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