I just washed and pressed and folded several boxes of fabric from my stash that had been stored. Several of them we "a few yards" I washed and damp dried them, then just opened the fabric out full width.. let it fall in front of me at the ironing board and draped it over the other side in gentle folds as it was ironed. As soon as it was all pressed, I took one selvage and fan folded the length , folding the final length around the fan folds. Made sure they were fairly even, then using my 6x24 ruler folded this widthwise around it making a neat packet. then I labeled it with how much is there.