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    Old 01-20-2010, 09:00 AM
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    My largest mat is always on my cutting table. Others are hung behind the door. Rulers hand on a peg board. If they come holeless, my DH drills a hole in them for me. Little rulers such as the F & P Binding Tool is in a sandwich bag along with the instructions and they are on the peg board, too.
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    Old 01-20-2010, 04:09 PM
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    I found a little rack mean to hang kitchen utensils from IKEA. My husband mounted that on the side of a cheap but tall bookcase I have in the sewing room/office. It's great to have them accessibly hung and yet out of the way. Mats are stored under my table pad in the dining room. It's the only way I can keep those big mats flat and safe. No one knows when they're having dinenr at our house that the mats are there and they're protected by the table pad.
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    Old 01-20-2010, 04:47 PM
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    I store my mats lying flat under the bed. I might as well use that space for something besides dust bunnies.
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    Old 01-20-2010, 04:58 PM
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    I just took down a clock that stopped working and used a space that was wasted in my sewing room to hold my rulers. Normally I have a huge hang-up about putting nails in my wall (no pun intended), but I gave myself "permission" to do so when I kept looking for my rulers and ended up breaking one because it slipped to the floor. I still have more to hang and haven't decided where to put them yet. I am thinking about using the other side of the door.

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    Old 01-20-2010, 09:52 PM
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    Originally Posted by AnnaK
    I found a little rack mean to hang kitchen utensils from IKEA. My husband mounted that on the side of a cheap but tall bookcase I have in the sewing room/office. It's great to have them accessibly hung and yet out of the way. Mats are stored under my table pad in the dining room. It's the only way I can keep those big mats flat and safe. No one knows when they're having dinenr at our house that the mats are there and they're protected by the table pad.
    Hey thats another neat idea...love all the neat ideas here...keepem coming.
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