Morning Busy Bee,

Love the colors of your Irish chain quilt in your Avatar.

Nice combination.

Happy Holidays!
Quilter68 (AKA) Kathleen

Thanks, I love this quilt also. One of my favorites that I have done. I did this quilt for a friend of ours that did a lot of backhoe work for us for free. It was our way of saying thank you.

I document my quilts, not my fabrics. :? Has worked for me for decades so I'll stick with it.

I document my apparel fabrics so I know what I have on hand when I or one of my daughters needs new clothes. But my quilt fabric is another story. For one there is 5x more quilt fabric than apparel fabric. Two. I always buy three yards of every fabric I buy for a quilt unless it's a remnant. Then I just leave the tag on.

I do sort my fabrics by colors. So there is a box of blue and purple and one of red, orange, and yellow, etc. Then I have a box of what I call focus fabrics those with lots of different colors. that I use to pick the colors for a project. Sometimes the focus fabric goes in the quilt and other times it doesn't.

This is great, folks. Keep it up!
I love hearing how everyone has their fabric and stuff organized.

Makes me think that maybe one day I can do it, too! :| :|

I know that there are a few people here who document their fabrics :D:D:D
Me??? It is never going to happen...as wonderful as it would be to know all of this info... I would never keep it up :roll:

I like the labels (printed on file folder labels) that some online merchants send. For me, this is especially useful for garment sewing. For quilting, I don't really need them. The fabric content is usually 100% cotton, the fabric line is usually printed on the selvage, and I can tell by the way I folded yardage about how much I bought-- it is going to be FQ or one or two yards.

My goal is to have more strips and squares cut and organized into the carts with clear plastic drawers which I bought a few months ago. I already have a rule that once I cut something from my stash, I have to cut the rest of that length of fabric into strips or backing squares for my drawers. I need to spend my limited time on cutting fabric into usable units rather that fuss with labelling or otherwise organizing my yardage.

I think it's a great idea, but, like Amma there's not a hope in the world I could keep it up. Looking for fabric in my stash is often like a treasure hunt, perhaps that's why I'll never have a "system".

I have started keeping a notebook about the quilts I do. This is because, sometimes, I will find that the block I used worked great, or it didn't and I list changes that I do. I also put a picture of the quilt in there, and who it was given to, and the reason for giving it.

I also write down things I would like to do differently next time, and things I learn along the way.

I figure it will help me, but also my children may learn something from it.

I'm with Busy Bee, I never took pictures and relatives would yell to me. now i have everything on cd and in my photo album. sometines i label and but most of the time i just put it in a pile and go through it when i need something...LOL