Labeling fabric
#21
hey yall, i'm the most un-organized person in the world. i can't find anything. i've probably got 2 or 3 of "everything" - forget where i put it and go buy another. i looked in a dresser drawer the other day and found about 10 years of fabric, don't remember when or where i bought it, i think it just hatched in there. i have a sister that is organized (at least by my standards) and i just can't stand organized people, lol
donna
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#22
When clothing construction was my "bread & butter" I HAD to keep everything labeled or I would never know what I had on hand, what I needed to reorder, etc. Quilt fabric? Not likely to happen. I do try to keep like colours together, but that is about as far as I want/need to go as I am trying SOOOO hard not to allow my stash to grow beyond what I can manage. Yeah right. HAHAHAHA
#25
Originally Posted by Loretta
I don't document my fabrics, but I should. At a recent class on appraising for insurance purposes, we were told to document fabrics as well as the quilts. Some people have a stash that is worth hundreds of dollars. If you don't have the stash documented, you can't claim it after a fire.
It might be worth spending a day adding up the yardage currently on hand, then adding the yardage of any new purchases as you get them and subtracting yardage used in projects as you make them. That way you'd have a running total of yardage on hand in case of fire or flood for insurance reasons. And if you have more than 100 yards, which many of us do easily, then your stash is worth thousands, not hundreds, of dollars.
#28
When I cleaned out my sewing room (Honest, I did :thumbup: )I sorted all of my stash and put all of the matching pieces together in large zip bags and labeled them. Now when I wnat to work on something I don't have to do a major search to find everything. Of course there is a down side. I don't have to go to my lqs nearly as much for fill in and matching pieces.
#29
I have thought of doing this, but don't. In the past, one time I wanted more of a fabric that I had a small amount of. The store I'd bought it from, didn't have it any more, so I ended going online to find it and did! I do label the amount of my batting though. If I need a piece for a project, I can quickly look at the corner of each chunk (where the amount is written on a small piece of paper pinned to the corner), to see if there's enough or do I need to cut into a new piece of batting. All the quilting fabric I buy is 100% cotton and I usually make Art quilts, so my fabric doesn't need to be washed first, before using it. I do store it in plastic covered boxes by color: red, blue, teal, etc. I also have a box of bright multi colors or dark background multi colors.
#30
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Originally Posted by QuiltingGrannie
I tried so hard not to, but we got new fabrics in at work and I could not let them slip into someone elses hands, at least not until I got my share. My question is - does anyone label their fabric when they buy it as far as date, price, where they bought it and size? Since some of what I bought will not be used for a while and some I bought for that common reason "Just had to have it, not sure for what"....
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