aashley333

Are you keeping up with storing your fabric with the comic boards? I love it! I can tell the approximate amount by the thickness. I bought the alligator clips and used them, but not so much anymore. I just put back on shelf w/o clipping. Wide backs don't work. Too much fabric. Also, if it is wound on a board, I know I have washed it!

WMUTeach

I picked up a few, maybe 20, on the give away table at my quilt group about 2 years ago. I like them too. I agree that they make it easy to see not just what colors, prints, blenders and so on you have but how much. I don't have all my fabric on boards, but it sure feels good to open my closet doors and find part of the stash standing up ready to be chosen for the next project. Oh, and less ironing than when folded too!

Snooze2978

I don't wash any of my fabrics but I do starch them before I cut into them. I have 2 sizes of the comic book boards. Anything 2yds or less goes on the smaller size, anything over 2yds up to 4 yds go onto the larger sizes. Anything over that goes on bolts. I've got over 1,000 of these boards in 2 sizes and I actually ran out. I never put the fat quarters on them but keep them in a container. The boards just make it look neater on the shelves than when they were getting wrinkled or would fall over.

Onebyone

I use to use them but now my shelfs are too deep and too tall to use the boards. I'd have to put a row in front of another row of fabric on each shelf. I need to refigure something with the shelves. I do need a way to see all my fabric without moving a bundle around.

Onebyone

Wow. I looked at the price of the boards now. A package of 100 thick, hard to bend, acid free, large comic size board for $4.99 at a tech/comic store in 2018. I have the package with price on it with a few boards left. Now they are smaller in size and overpriced. I think I'll buy thick white cardstock by the ream. I don't care about acid free. My fabric goal is not for museum donation.

Dande413

I too cannot bring myself to by comic boards. I buy reams of card stock. Supposed to be acid free. I fold in half, then wrap my fabric. Works great for me.

Onebyone

I fold in half, then wrap my fabric. Works great for me.

That's a good idea. I'm going to go to the store today to buy some. Weather supposed to be rain/snow/ice mix here this week so I will have good cleaning organizing time.

dunster

I love them! I think I started out with 1000, then bought another 1000, but not all of those have been used. I use the shirt clips, and the magazine size boards. Only yardage goes on the boards. Wide backs and FQs and such go elsewhere. I started out with the boards fairly well separated by color or type of fabric, but over time the organization has suffered. A shelf of red fabrics would be full, so a new red fabric would go into another area, etc. But this method works so much better for me than stacking the fabrics.

KiriQuilts

I tried comic boards, but got frustrated with trying to perfectly fold them again around the board again, seemed like extra work every time. (I'm a little OCD with the ADHD.)
So, instead, i ruler folded the fabric and slipped just the fabric into SKUBB drawer dividers that I bought from IKEA, which I then set up vertically in Billy bookcases and Flysta/Target square cubbies. That way I could take down a box of fabric, use what i want, and then put the box back into the shelf without knocking a bunch of fabric over.
here's some photos:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0b98...7U6Ux85wjY-eZg

Rhonda K

A long time ago, I folded all the fabrics onto the hard plastic boards only to discover the method didn't work for me. So all the fabrics un-folded off the boards and then ruler folded with a 6.5 inch ruler. I can fit 8 stacks across each closet shelf and sort by color or theme. The boards didn't work for larger cuts of yardage.

The closet shelves are 16 inch deep and the folded fabrics are approx 11.5 so fit quite well.