Old 05-20-2009, 06:00 PM
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Mousie
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My #1 tip, which you can use if it works for you, or toss...
I used to have cooboodles of bins for my fabrics. All my fabrics are sorted into bundles, according to projects. I do have a little bit of 'floaters', as I call them, and on 'petting' days, (you don't feel like sewing, but want to mess and gaum and pet fabrics), sometimes I will change my mind about a fabric and put it in a different bundle, but I digress...lol, me? not me....
Told my hubby, I wanted shelves, lots of shelves, in my sewing room, for my fabrics, for Christmas. I must have been a very good girl, bc I got my shelves, and now have a wash room out back, full of empty bins!
I freed up so much space, by putting all that fabric on shelves, in stacks. I've done a lot of things in there, to be more organized, but that is #1!
I wish it looked like the book cover, but mine are tied, to keep each project together. I made a curtain from an old vinyl tablecloth, attached 'o' rings, and put cup hooks, on front edges of shelves.
It all stays nice and clean, and away from sunlight, etc. and nobody sees
"their" fabrics, etc. :D
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