folding fabric
 

I bought the comic book board cover to put my fabric on. How do most people fold there fabric on those boards? Thanks so much for any reply.

Here's a tutorial on how to fold fabric on comic book boards.


http://cuttopieces.blogspot.com/2011...-tutorial.html

It truly depends on where you're going to be storing your fabric. For me, the shelving in my closet is a bit smaller than the height of the comic book boards so I trimmed them to fit my closet and then folded my fabric selvedge to selvedge and then in thirds. I absolutely love having the mini bolts.

I love the bright colors in your stash and how easy it is to see. Gonna have to do this with mine.

normasews - your fabric stash is gorgeous and so organized!!! :)

Wow! That looks awesome. I bet it makes looking for that right piece, so much easier.

Thank you, thank you! I have lots to fold and tidy up, now
I can do it. What a clever idea.

I like the idea of the little "bolts" of fabric standing on the shelf like books. When my sewing room "inherited" a cabinet from my old kitchen (got new cabintes!), I folded all of my fabrics around a ruler and made neat stacks. Now everytime I need a fabric I have to pull from the stacks and naturally they don't go back in as nicely as when they were stacked originally. I think I will invest in the comic book cards. Thanks for the nice tute and the nice pictures.

When you need to pull out one of your fabrics just slide a magazine or a piece of cardboard under it, lift up the fabrics above it and it slides right out. You can replace it the same way.

Ask your fabric supplier (LQS, JoAnn's, Hancock's) for any empty fabric bolts. They are happy to give you whatever they have (they just throw them away anyway). I take all that they offer, but prefer the 'flat' boards and just put the 'thicker' ones in the cardboard recycling. I then cut the flat ones into 7.5 " x 11.5" size and fold the fabric (on a king size bed for large amounts) as the blogspot mentioned above and stacked them vertically. I have folded as much as 8 yds on one board. I love the eye candy that you can achieve and how much more accessible my fabrics are at a glance. Have fun...it's addictive. Jinnie