I have very little space for bins or boxes, so most of my larger pieces of fabric is on fat clothes hangers in the closet, sorted somewhat by what goes well together, all covered by see-thru' light-weight plastic. Additionally, I have 2 small shelf units, one on either end of my cutting table. I keep a wide variety of stuff on those shelves, including a stack of small pieces of fabric (average a yd. or less); one or 2 shelves devoted to backings and some generous yardage still on the cardboard in which it came from the store. Except for a box of only blue fabrics (and not all my blue fabric is in there), I don't sort by color. I actually don't have enough of a stash to be storage or search & find problems.