jzaaboo

Thanks penny and husky! Organizing and storing the kits-keep in mind, I only do this for my personal sewing. Here is a picture of my sewing room, these Rubbermaid containers are what I use to store my fabric, I open them up a lot to look at them, use them, etc. I limit my buying to what will fit in these bins. Each bin has 3-6 projects, and each bin is a basic category like “baby” “juvenile” “30’s reproduction” “60’s”, but I just list the project in the front on those index cards I have in each bin. Some examples are “Pink Elephant Parade” “’Summer Breeze’ JR”. I put my pattern in the box if I know what one I’m using, and I have a list for patterns w/o fabric and fabric w/o patterns. Mostly I know what pattern I’m going to use on each quilt. I have a couple of bins that are just “Civil War” or “Vintage Calico” that I haven’t broken down into projects yet. It's not always this clean, but I clean up after each quilt and put everything up.
I think it’s important to spend some time thinking about how your mind works and that can help you determine how your workplace should look. I don’t want a quilt store (fabric displayed by color or genre), I want a warehouse. You might visualize something completely different, and that will work perfectly for you.