I prefer everything in drawers, but much of my larger pieces of fabric are in shelves and I put the fabric I use less frequently on the top shelf or the bottom shelf. I have fitted out the closet with drawers until about 4 feet up and shelves above that. The drawers have my less than one yard pieces wrapped around cut down comic book boards and standing on end. I am sorting holiday and novelty fabrics are in labeled bins in the garage. My small tools and things are in labeled, colorful boxes on my window sill. Since I am only starting to feel good enough to to finish going through the fabric in the garage bins, I have been giving the fabric I don't want to my SIL to take to a woman at work who makes all kinds of things but doesn't have much money to buy fabric -- and since the fabric passes through DD's hands some of it gets redirected to her sister-in-law or herself. I put fabric that I am not sure if I want to keep in a bag, I look at it a week later and take out any pieces I decide I want and get rid of the rest -- I find I rarely take any of the fabric out so I am able to de-stash.