How do you store all the small strands?
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Binding quilt strips I wind up around my hand and fold flat in zip lock bags. Pre-packaged seam binding I keep on the cardboard they come on and put in a zip lock bag. My zippers I put a safety pin through the hole in the zipper pull and then put all the safety pins onto metal shower rings and hang them up. I keep all the different lengths on different shower rings so I can go right to the length I want.
#12
I use to save all the left over strips of stuff. One day I realized I never used them, just saved them so I stuffed all of them in a pillowcase, sewed up the end and gave it to the neighbor for his doghouse. I haven't missed having them at all.
#13
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 862
Buy those photo or shoeboxes. Label the outside and sort by type. But the boxes in a bookshelf. My sis has tons of this stuff and did that some years ago and it's great! I usethose plastic containers from frosting to store random safety pins, buttons, eyelets. They also go on a shelf.
#14
I realized after 5 moves in 6 years life's too short to fill it up with junk. All the small stuff like that went by the wayside. If I really need it again I'll buy it again. The fabric is going to have to get reduced too. It's all in storage right now and come spring when the weather is nice enough to go out there and sort thru I'm only going to keep the things I really, really want and the rest will get sold on craigslist.
#16
I realized after 5 moves in 6 years life's too short to fill it up with junk. All the small stuff like that went by the wayside. If I really need it again I'll buy it again. The fabric is going to have to get reduced too. It's all in storage right now and come spring when the weather is nice enough to go out there and sort thru I'm only going to keep the things I really, really want and the rest will get sold on craigslist.
#18
But keep the good ideas coming. I know I need to sort the stuff somehow. Maybe use some of the stuff for gift wrapping Christmas gifts.
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