Originally Posted by
zozee
Cool industrial ceiling! Is this a loft? Looks like you get great light when curtains are open. I'm curious about how you organize fabric. I see all the solids together but the others are more random. By collection? Approximate size? No order, just neatly folded eye candy?
It is a loft. Approx 88 ft by 26 ft. It has a slightly sloped ceiling the goes from 13' down to 11'. It has 16 windows, 14 of which are 8' x 4' (4 north and 10 west). I try to keep all my fabric on the west wall so it doesn't get any direct light.
Most of my fabric is ruler folded or on comic book boards. I tend towards 1/3 & 1/2 yard cuts but have a bunch of fqs. I tend to keep the fqs sorted by collection or color (I was in a color wheel & Cotton + Steel monthly club at Pink Castle for approx a year). The rest might be by collection, a fabric pull that I put back as a group, or just randomness due to digging through the stack.
I've decided to up the size I buy to at least a yard. More if I really like it or it would be a good with several projects. I've pulled aside my Lotta Jansdotter, Melody Miller (yardage is in the fabric bins in the pink ikea bookcase), etc fabrics and also my holiday fabrics. I have small stacks here and there of fabrics I might use together, adding to the chaos. I also try to keep my solids together but not in any real order.
Here is a better shot of the open bookcase - I am going to add a couple of tall Ikea Billie bookcases with the glass doors (you can put fabric or paper behind the first layer of glass). That should clean up the back of the sewing area that extends into the bedroom (a particular peeve of my spouse).
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