I hang my rulers etc on a rack I got at the dollar store meant for pot lids etc. It is made out of heavy wire covered in white plastic. For my quilt stencils I use the notebood rings and screwed cuphooks into a paneled wall to hang them on. Using vertical space in your sewing and quilting area helps a lot and makes things visible. I hung racks from one of those mail order catalogues meant to hold wax paper, foil etc on either side of my cutting/slash ironing/ slash storage dresser. They hold things like my stabilizers for the embroidery machine as well as freezerpaper rolls and even my little travel iron. My main cutting/ironing area is in my basement. In my groundfloor sewing/comptuer room I have a tall boy dresser I cut the legs off of to make it the ideal height for cutting, sewing
and pressing. The drawers provide storage space for everything quilting or emboridery related, I can press blocks, trim edges and small sections of my quilts as I sew without having to run down to the "big" board.