Before my cabinets I had my stash stored in trunks and boxes. I labeled the trunks: 1, 2, 3 etc. I then went thru the fabric and cut a small piece off the edge, measured how much was on the piece (if there was say a 1 yd left with pieces left over I would put 1yd+) and pasted the info on the line of a sheet of paper and the trunk or box# it was in. When I looked at books and magazines while watching TV, if I found something I might like to make, I would "shop" thru my notebook stash, and if I had enough of a piece to use for the quilt I wanted to make, I would know which trunk to pull from. That way I did not have to constantly go thru the stash to find what or how much I had, etc.