Does anyone hang their fabric stash on hangers in a closet?
For years, my wife has always tended to buy at least 3 yards of any fabric that she added to her stash. Sometimes she would get 5-7 yards. To store her typically large pieces, she has enjoyed a walk-in closet with a seven-foot long hanging rod for her main fabric stash storage for a long time now. I added an additional support attached to the ceiling joists midway along the rod to hold the weight. She figured out a way to fold the fabrics on the hangers to use the space below the rod to the best advantage, and also could be folded one more time to cut off a piece when she needed it, sometimes without even removing the fabric from the hanger. She loved it.
There was one interruption to her system when we moved to another town for 5 years and she had to store all of her fabric in plastic tubs during that time. She hated it.
Now we’re back in the original house and her fabric is once again on hangers in the walk-in closet. The problem now is that we’re having my Mother come live with us in the next few months, and that closet is in the room we’ve decided to set up for Grandma (for several reasons to accommodate Grandma’s needs). The fabric stash will have to be moved.
We have another room with a walk-in closet that has only a five-foot long hanging rod, so we’re going to have to come up with something else to make up the difference. We’re thinking that a portable clothes hanging rack next to the closet may be an option. (The rest of the room is being used for storing our other junk.) She still sticks to her old ways of acquiring fabric in 3-7 yard pieces, even since fat quarters have become common. I don’t know if she even has a FQ in her stash at all, so her storage consists of pretty much large pieces only. She cuts her scraps up into useable-size blocks or strips shortly after completing each project, and those are stored in clear plastic tubs by size.
CD in Oklahoma