Thread: How do you sort your stash? By color? By size?
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Old 08-13-2013, 05:52 AM
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jrhboxers
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My fabrics are sorted by length - exact opposite of everyone else who sort by color.

  • Less that a half yard are folded or cut down.
  • Between 1/2 and 2 yards are ruler folded and placed in the drawer.
  • More than 2 yards are folded onto full size bolts (the ones from the store).
  • The coordinating fabrics are ruler folded, stacked together and then tied with a ribbon.
  • The fabric groups that are for a specific pattern are placed in zipper bags with their pattern.
  • I have a couple of projects that I am gathering fabrics for - these are kept in baskets with their pattern.

I prefer to sort by yardage because I can look at the fabrics that I have that meet the size requirements that I am looking for. I hate when I find a fabric that seems perfect for a quilt, but I don't have enough of it. Since I now sort by size, I know what I have of each fabric.

BTW, each piece is tagged with their yardage notes and any other notes (single border, defect, whatever). Makes life so much easier.
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