My fabric is neatly folded by the ruler method, and stacked on shelves behind folding doors. I don't want the light to get to it. All my quilting fabric is sorted by color/ florals/ juvenile/ seasonal/ batiks, etc. I can tell at a glance what I have. All the flannels are also together and sorted by color/ infant/manly/ floral. It works for me. I have a 20' wall of storage in my basement sewing studio. I try not to have many UFOs, and if I buy fabric for a specific project, that is grouped together in a space in one of the closets. I may "Look" organized, but.....

I store my fabric in clear plastic boxes or on the bolt boards that the stores use. Those are in rows in the back of a closet. I sort by color. The thing I find most helpful is to pin a small piece of paper to each one with its size on it. That is not hard to keep up with whereas a notebook or recipe box with cards with that information would be impossible for me to keep up with.

ways of storing my stash has changed over the last several years. Currently, I store my fabric by color in see through drawers. I fold the 1 yd or less pieces like fat quarters. So when you open the drawer you can see all the fabric at a glance. The larger yardages and wide quilt back fabrics are folded and stored in separate deeper drawers. I have mostly bright kids fabrics. I do have a couple of drawers with Jenny Beyer type & batik fabric sorted by colors. I buy 98% of my fabric online. Recently I have started copying and pasting the fabric pics and name as I place the order. I also take pics occasionally of the fabric & ufo's. The older I get I find I need to find more ways of controlling my stash.

My stash is a mess. I have it stored in a cedar chest. Someone told me that the cedar touching the fabric might cause it damage. So....I lined the inside with shelf liner. It is folded and organized by color. When I take anything out it all gets messed up. I know...I need a new system! I am going to work on that in May when I go home.

Now the lady not only wants us to have a stash -- but to take a test on it! Not going to happen in my world! Seriously I once considered this but I get more inspiration from"paw-ing"my fabric than from pictures. But I can scan fabric into 2 of my quilt programs -- so why not a fabric inventory. Even something as simple as a camera and jpegs into a spreadsheet might be useful to some. Myself, I use the stack by color and a bit of stack by theme (christmas etc.).

I just went through all my scraps with a quilting friend and I shared a lot with her and we weeded out the tiny pieces that I had a hard time parting with. I sorta know what's there but it changes all the time. I'm not one to cut squares or shapes because I feel you neve know what size you might need and I love making string and revesable crazy quilts with them.

I have been ruler folding my stash for a few days. It's so pleasant to handle every piece and think about what I might make with it.

stash is ok because I just finished going thru that, it is the gadgets/rulers/templates that I have found I have begun to duplicate......so it is time to really clean that pegboard wall and the drawer unit below it to make sure I do not double buy........again!!!!!

Years ago I read a hint to buy the small photo albums, clip a small swatch from the corner of your fabric and put it in the album. Five or six swatches would fit on a page. When you shopped you could take out the album and coordinate. That was sooo handy. Notice I said was. I didn't keep it up and maybe that is why I have so much I will never use it all. Sometimes when I go thru my stash I find fabric that I think, "That is so pretty. When did I buy this" and other fabrics I had forgotten about I think, "Why on this earth would I buy that piece".

I can always "shop" my stash, and I find the most wonderful surprises. And of course a few of those "what was I thinking" pieces as well. Its fun