Coroplast at Home Depot
 

I just discovered that my local Home Depot (in Dallas) carries Coroplast plastic storage boards. Many of you use AlaskaSunshine's fabulous method of storing fabric, and that is what she recommends. The Coroplast at Home Depot is 24" x 36", costs approximately $6.50 per piece, and is enough for 8 of the larger boards shown in AlaskaSunshine's tutorial. Home Depot no longer carries this product on-line.

I know that some quilters have found Coroplast at local sign stores, but the store I contacted near my house charges $240 for 2 pieces that are 4' x 8'. It's more than I wanted to pay.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...om-t43871.html

Guess what I am going to be doing for the rest of my MLK holiday?

OH dear..please reconsider using plain old cardboard....it is NOT acid free and will destroy your fabric!
Even if you covered in freezer paper there is no guarantee that the acid will not damage the fabric!

There are different weights/qualities of Coroplast, so your price comparison may not be apples-to-apples!

Sign shops might give you a better pricing for offcuts that are in their scrap bin.
You might even get a variety of colours to have some fun with. (think -- colour coding representing their contents!)

You can usually buy it in Staples.
I've even seen it in some dollar stores!

Colorplast is still much more expensive than simply purchasing styrofoam board. I purchase it at my Dollar Tree store for 1.00 a sheet and get 10 boards out of each one. It comes in a 20"X30" sheet. They are strong enough to do the job and I have never cut my hand on them as I have done with the sharp edges of Colorplast. It is acid free also.
Ann in TN

When I described prices in my original post, I compared 4 mm Coroplast for both sets of prices. Both were also white.

I am sure that people who want to use styrofoam board can do so easily and find that product in many locations. My original post had to do with the fact that I have had a hard time finding Coroplast -- because that is the product that I chose to use -- and wanted to share my good news with other quilters who might benefit from my find.

Comic boards on Amazon are very reasonable, acid free and work well from what I have heard. They run about 100 for $10.00. I think that is going to be a summer project for me once school is out.

Frequently at Hobby Lobby and Walmart I have been given the empty cardboard supports that the factory wraps the fabric on. As far as I can tell these are not acid free. They work as well for my stash as they worked in the stores.

When you buy it at the Dollar Store what is it called? I'd like to calm my fabrics down...right now they're wild beasts hanging out all over the place ohhh wait that's also called my hair! But really what's it called so I can find it at my dollar store? Thanks so much!

I don't know about your $ $tore$ but ours don't have labels as to what it is called!
In ours it's usually near the bristol board display.

I have found that I really need to use 2 magazine boards to keep the fabric solidly standing.
Charlie

will have to check our home depot

It's always something, isn't it?! I just folded all my material and put it in plastic bins. I would love to have the type of storage showin in the link above. Rethinking my method here...

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I like this idea too! Thanks Kathdavis!

Momtobostonterriers (lol...love that)
I DO APPRECIATE you bringing back up the fantastic job "Alaskasunshine" has done with her sewing room. I bookmarked that to return to, but as of yet had not read WHAT type of board she had used to wrap her fabric around (initially I thought it was foamcore board). I'll be looking for coroplast locally to see what prices I encounter. If it's more then I can handle I'll investigate Kathdavis' suggestion next. I had not thought about the "acid free" aspects. GOOD SUGGESTION!

Alaskasunshine sure got a lot of us inspired to ORGANIZE things right.

♥

I get the empty fabric bolt cardboard from my LQS, cut it up and its perfect to put the material.

I don't use the cardboard to put on the fabric I do fold it and stack it then I put the cardboard inbetween the stacks. I got the cardboard from fabric shop empty bolt cardboard it is firm and works fine.

I, too, get the empty bolt cardboards from all quilt shops I go to. They are happy to let you take them as it saves them from having to deal with them later.

Wow, Being new to all of this has be so excited to try this. I love how they are easy to see on the board instead of just in a bin.

The cardboard that fabric is wrapped on isn't acid-free. You can definitely tell on many of the fabrics as they are unwrapped. I would be careful using it for any "long term" storage. We know who we are...stash hanging around from a couple years ago. OK, maybe more.

I bought my 4x8 sheets from a sign shop for under $15.00 a sheet, then hubby cut them into smaller pieces for me.

When I am at Joanns I ask for and get as many as I can carry of their bolts they will give it to you for free the hobby Lobby here will not give you theirs said they go back to the mfg.

I think I will go for this solution, there is a dollar store not too far away! Thanks so much.

I use archival comic book boards. They aren't as stiff but work great to hold the folded fabric up right. I don't bother to pin or clip my fabric to hold in place anymore. It stays in place on the board when up against the other fabrics. I fold my fabric selvage to selvage then fold again making a long narrow strip that fold perfectly on the boards.

The other problem with cardboard is that it attracts "varmints" whereas plastic does not. Any paper products - cardboard etc. - particularly those that have been 'outside' boxes or the shipping container as opposed the boxes inside the shipping box are likelier to attract unwelcome friends.

Most online stores: Clotilde, Nancys notions etc. have precut corrugated plastic fabric organizers in a range of standard sizes with pre cut doohickeys to hold the fabric ends. I ordered a pile from NN on sale a few years back and they work well. They also fit the skinney IKEA billy bookcase which is where I stacked all my boards in color order. Nothing has fallen out or over so far. :).

I like this! Thanks for sharing the hint!

I fold all of my fabrics with a 24" Ruler and stack it in my 48 x 72" cabinet, on shelves. It really works great for me. I can get it all in there like that.

Ok I went over to Home Depot to check out this coroplast. I have never seen it nor the items that they sell on line for us to use to store our material. But I was very curious. It took us about 10 min, with an employee helping me to find it. LOL. No one had an idea what it was. I couldn't describe it because I didn't know what it looked like. I sorta of had an idea of what it should be like so we went on that. We found it in the window dept. LOL. So I am going to try this. I think that it will be so much nicer and better storage then my bin.

Don't forget that if you can wait until November, there will be hundreds (thousands?) of obsolete political signs made of coroplast all around town, just waiting to be disposed of.

Or you could start early and collect signs from your favorite candidate's opponent. :D

Tate

I have nothing Local for comic stores or sign stores or anything really......we dont even have grocery store in our town....sad I know, but anyways.......I contacted via email a Sign Store and they said they sell their 4' x 8' for $25 I thought that was high? So I am reading now their are different thicknesses? I might have to get back ahold of them to see........all you ladies are soooo clever! I went to Home Depo today and didn't find anything.....but maybe becasue I to did not know what I was looking for....lol

then what is safe to store my cut squares and blocks in? :(

Check out any of the large home supply stores for the Coroplast. Rona sells it here in both half sheets, and 4'x8' sheets - and they come in a few colours. Look for them in the area where plexiglass is sold. They're easy to cut with an old seam ripper- just put the prong part in the hollow corrugated part and zip up the entire length of the sheet. Fold it in half and zip up the other side of that hollow tube. They you only have to cut across the grain in short lengths.

In which dept. of Dollar Tree did you find the styrofoam board? Thanks.

This is what I use. Cheap and gets the job done.

In the school supply dept.