Die Storage & Tips
 

I'm using a Big Shot to cut fabric for quilting. As my die library has grown I needed a store solution. Accuquilt offers a wire die holder in a few sizes from $25 to $35. I picked up a few letters holders at thrift store for 50 cents each. As your die addiction supply grows you can add more letter holders.
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If I could do it over, I would have gotten all the same size. The frugal side of me overrides the OCD side of not buying matching letter holders at full price. But if I see another one for 50 cents at thrift store I will splurge.
The one below works well. Mine are pushed together on the back of my cutting table.
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I hate the die packaging, so I cut off the image label and taped it to the actual die with clear packing tape.
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It is very helpful to see the die cutting line, especially when placing scraps of fabric. Simply trace the cutting lines with a silver sharpie.
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How do you store your dies?

I store mine in a long basket, but I only have about 12 dies and probably wont collect too many more. I will ry to post a pic soon for you

I do the wire racks too. I did buy the one from Accuquilt due to the size for the width of the strips and the DWR. My daughter gave me a larger rack she was no longer using. They sit on one shelf, hold all of my dies and I will try now not to buy any more dies until I have used all the ones I have.

Me too. I will also not by any more fabric until I use 10% of what I have. LOL

I use letter holders for my rulers. I use the one on my cutting table for rulers that I use most often. One on a nearby table holds less frequently used rulers. I have a small plastic basket for small and specialty rulers. The big very sturdy letter holder holds die for the Accuquilt cutter. I got each one at Staples with good discounts.

here are the pics of my basket

I love the idea of marking the cutting lines with a silver marker! Sure does make the image pop!

I recently received an Accuquilt Go for Mother's Day. I don't have very many dies yet so I don't have a storage solution. I will probably also use a basket as my tabletop storage is limited.

Great storage ideas, thanks!

I have the Studio die cutter from Accuquilt, that holds my strip dies, they are to heavy and big to fit anywhere else and I have a wood rack from IKEA and also store the smaller dies in the wire racks that hold 4 to 6 wire baskets .. works great.

I use photo album boxes from the craft store.

Love your basket. Perfect and cute.

heartofwisdom-love the storage idea :) I need to get some of those for my dies. I too have the Big Shot, but haven't used it yet except for cutting out one thing for practice after purchasing it. I'ts just been sitting. Do you really like yours a lot and do you find that you end up wasting fabric when cutting out blocks? Thanks :)

Thanks for posting this thread. I shopped my local charity shop yesterday looking for something else to help store my dies. They were using a wire rack very similar to my Accuquilt one to store boxed placemats. It had a price sticker on it so I bought it. One rail had come off (I will get it welded on) so it was half price at $1.50. It is probably not quite as tall as my Accuquilt one but is much the same otherwise.