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#11
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,538
It's good to start off the year with a tidy sewing room. Just keep folding and putting it into colour families on your shelves. If you have more fabrics than you thought, go to your idea file and see what future quilts you can make from the extras. If the pieces are big, see if they will work for backs of currents projects.
#14
I feel your pain. Have you ever bought a pattern and then found the same pattern when you got home? After doing it a few times I made a spread sheet of my patterns so I could check to make sure I didn't already have it. Of course, if I have so many patterns that I can't keep track of them, maybe I should quit buying them. But then, where's the fun in that, right?
#16
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Topeka, KS
Posts: 3,813
Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas. I am organizing my stash and every new hint helps. Right now, I have most of my fabric in large clear rubbermaid bins wrapped on the plastic boards from MILate. I am planning to get some cabinents with doors so I can store the fabric without opening all the plastic containers when I am looking for something.
#17
Thank you so much for all the wonderful ideas. I am organizing my stash and every new hint helps. Right now, I have most of my fabric in large clear rubbermaid bins wrapped on the plastic boards from MILate. I am planning to get some cabinents with doors so I can store the fabric without opening all the plastic containers when I am looking for something.
#18
Aren't label makers wonderful! I don't think I could exist without one.
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: So Plymouth, NY
Posts: 2,502
It's funny and almost frightening at the same time. Last time I organized and took stock of my stash, I had NO idea I had that much fabric. From the looks of your sewing room, and it's looking very tidy to me, I have twice as much fabric, and that's honestly, not boasting. I'm thinking I may not live long enough to use it all. My best friend and fabric enabler kept/keeps encouraging saying "we're saving (fabric) for our retirement". Well, mine starts 3/31/12. Time to start using more and buying less.
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 3,955
I spent Friday visiting 3 LQS and didn't realize till today how much I have accumulated! Already did my first project for 2012 - new pillow cases for my bed. Now to chose new patterns for all that fabric. Happy New Year and to lots of sewing/quilting - Cheers!
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