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I have a couple of long retangular clear plastic bins under my quilting table. Some in 2 four shelf 2 door cabinets and some in clear plastic bins in a closet stacked from the floor up and some on my chaise lounge and some in my carry bag. Wow I have a lot of fabric even though I have seen quilting rooms on this board that have much more than I do and very, very organized.
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Mine is still boxed away from move last year. Not sure what I will do with it. Cloths closet no doubt.
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Originally Posted by Scissor Queen
I am putting all of my fabrics longer than two yards on to coroplast boards and putting them in bookcases.
I got the coroplast boards on ebay. I think the seller is a board member. I love how organized these boards keep things. Of course they don't touch the amt of stash I have but any little bit of organization helps. |
You're going to have to live another 150 yrs. to use all of that. And I thought I had a lot of stash.
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I wonder if I can talk my husband into this? I love it! He already vetoed moving out of the master bedroom for my quilting machine, I doubt I'll ever get a dream closet like this :0( You are one lucky lady!
Originally Posted by Joanie2
Originally Posted by elkridgequilter
I found out that you CAN have too much fabric in your stash! I store my stash in sweater organizers that hang from the bar in my closet. The bar is part of a wire shelf. We returned from vacation to find that the entire shelf had ripped out of the wall! Fortunately the shelf above had mostly empty boxes on it! The only machine that fell was my embellisher and it seems okay. (Maybe it was the tiny Maryland earthquake that happened while we were gone and not just the weight of my stash). Anyway, I need to redo my closet and am looking for suggestions.
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I store mine on bookshelves and in storage tubs. I, too, like the see through tubs because it's easier to know which one to dig through when looking for something specific. I also have the outsides labeled like holiday, etc.
P.S. You can never have too much fabric, that's why we buy more! |
Originally Posted by shirleysonshine
I have the large plastic drawers stacked. 3 of them, about 10 roll carts for supplies, and shoe boxes for pre-cut shapes. Then in the closet I have shelves half way up the way on one side for fabrics, and a bookcase (tall) at the end of the closet full of fabrics that are NOT for quilting. My goal is to have it in clear boxes on the shelves.
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Originally Posted by bluestarmom
I have been fortunate. I caught a sale of unfinished "jelly" cupboards and they were the double doors and when open you have a total of 5 shelves counting the bottom. Les finished them for me in black. Using a measurement of my length, I found I could place 5 - 6" wide fabrics in there. So I use my 6" x 24 "long ruler and starting about 4" in from the edge of the fabric, leave it folded, I would then fold the fabric with the ruler as the cardboard. Once it was folded I would tuck the end in, slip out the ruler, fold the fabric in half and it fits perfectly with the fold side out in the pantry. I had a tall utilitary cubboard and that two would hold the 6" folds except only like 3.. but that's what I use with baskets for my fat quarters, misc. large scrap pieces and by laying the fabic length wise, I have my 108" backing fabric on the bottom shelve,. Prior to finding these wonderful containers, I had caught a sale at Target and I love wicker (pretend of course) and I purchased two dressers with 4 drawers in each and I also got one that was tall and narrow that had 6 smaller drawers. Again, I had a lot of miscelleious notions, etc. and now I had a place for them. I used wicker baskets on tops of things to catch templates, spare pieces that are not really something I have to have but don't want to throw away. with the two machines I also have storage under the open trap door that would normally hide the machine. I leave it open but use a cover for the machines. So I can put those 3 drawers clear plastic bins in there. Under my cutting table made from a 6' banquet table with bed risers, I have all my batting and muslin in containers that I can see in. If I have started collecting fabric for a pattern from a quilt magazine, I use plastic seal bags to place the fabrics and the magazine in. And I still have a mess half the time. Do I have way more then I need? YEP! But when there is a need, then I can pull what I want to share and make sure it gets to the correct guild, etc. for what they are collecting for. I cannot make quilts quick as fast as many others, but for what it's worth I'm pretty content with what I have and what I can accomplish when my body lets me. But if I may add, once again, you can save a fair bit of money by using the ruler method of folding and storing fabrics. Just take the inside witgh of the shelve and see what it can be divided by and then the depth and you can come up with some pretty neat ideas on putting your fabrics away. So far the only really big problem i have encounterd and I am hoping to come up with a solution and that's my embroidery threads. I use the Isacord, and when my lqs closed out, while women were grabbing the fabrics for a fantastic price, I went straight for the embroidery threads and the Aurifil. Made out like a bandit and now have the website that sells both at rock bottom pricing. I use the storage boxes which holds up 30 spills of Isacord but my grand daughter needs to come over so we can revise it. I am now redoing it and leaving blanks for the threads I do not have so if an when I decide to order more I know which ones I need. Sorry.. the dogs only listen to me when I say "treat?". hum Les is the same way.... oh well, hopefully I have you all... hopefully..
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Originally Posted by BettyB
Originally Posted by elkridgequilter
I found out that you CAN have too much fabric in your stash! I store my stash in sweater organizers that hang from the bar in my closet. The bar is part of a wire shelf. We returned from vacation to find that the entire shelf had ripped out of the wall! Fortunately the shelf above had mostly empty boxes on it! The only machine that fell was my embellisher and it seems okay. (Maybe it was the tiny Maryland earthquake that happened while we were gone and not just the weight of my stash). Anyway, I need to redo my closet and am looking for suggestions.
my husband decided to enclose it and attached it to the house. In the last few years it was used about 3 times. He decided to fill it in and make me a big quilting room. At first I said no, but the more I thought about it the more I liked the idea. Here are a few pictures, as you can see you cannot keep your workspace neat if you are using it lol, at least I can't. I didnt take a picture of my cutting table because it is really cluttered, and by the way it use to be a hot tub. The hottub cover is wooden with a vinyl cover. I have a 56 inch cutting board on it. Whats scary is Im straining my eyes to eyeball YOUR stash and admiring some of the fabrics saying " Hmm i wonder where she got that from". Im in a one bedroom tiny place, kaka. I have a clear plastic "dresser" on wheels. That has all only yard pieces by the color wheel. I used to be an artist so i think that way. The bigger pieces are in a huge tall cabinet and other dresser drawers. I also have the sweater hanging thingy lol for the closet with fabric in it. When i have a project in mind ( remember i have YET to finish a quilt ) i buy smaller tubs with handles and put all the fabric and directions in the tub so i "remember" what the heck i bought that fabric for. So i keep the whole project together. Some cut fabric is in plastic 2 gallon zip lock bags. Ha Ha NO u dont wanna see how ive managed to hide all the fabric in this 600sq ft place. I dont have a sewing table either so i got a 6ft foldable table. My breakfast bar is my ironing station. And well the threads are from here to there and everywhere in between. Dont ask how i cut my fabric you would be shocked lol. :thumbup: |
There are some fabric stores that trash their empty bolt boards. Ask them about it they may have a stack waiting for the dumpster and would let you have some of them. Buying the end of the bolt??? keep the bolt.
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