Fabric Organization
 

I would be interested to know how you organize your fabrics. I started using the cardboards used with the comic books but found that my shelves don't have enough space to allow the fabric boards to stand on end. I'm about half way with this but I'm not sure it's what I want to continue. Would love to hear your favorite way to store your yardage that helps with organization and fabric visibility to know what's in your stash? Thanks.

I hope to do the comic boards one day; it looks so nice and tidy. I currently have my fabric stacked by color on open shelves in my sewing room. I have fat quarter bundles on a separate shelving unit in the hallway; I bought a lot of bundles when I first started quilting, but am moving away from that now. My stash is not large; keeping fabric in containers that I had to bend to reach would not be practical for me, so I have to limit my stash to the available shelf space, where I can see it and reach it easily.

This is how I organize mine. The picture was taken awhile back, so there's not quite so much room on my shelves now. http://www.quiltingboard.com/members...78-479531.html

Ksdot417 how tall are your bookshelves? I like how they sit straight up while being close together. I just helped my sister put some bookshelves together but when we put them side by side they lean, just makes it look awful.

You can cut the comic book boards to fit the space you have in your book shelves. I do that to fit them in my drawer units and it works out great. just measure the height of your shelves and cut the boards to size, then wrap your fabric around them.

I ruler fold my fabric and it is stored in the plastic drawers from a big box store. I wouldn't have room to store the fabric on comic boards. The drawers are full enough that the fabric stands straight anyway.

I have just started folding my fabrics on a cardboard that fits on edge in my dresser drawers. I found I can store more fabrics in the drawers and can see at a glance what I have. Still in process of this organization.

I have my fabric on the comic boards and then in the file size plastic boxes/bins. Then there are boxes of Christmas fabric, Halloween and Thanksgiving fabric, Children's fabrics, florals, solids and then the professional sports teams. Then I put the bins on shelves.

I fold my stash in three different sizes;

large amounts are folded as they are at the LQS (although without the cardboard center-takes up room that I can use for more fabric)

medium amounts of fabric are folded to look like books (standing up on their sides, about 1/2 the height of bolted fabric-you'd be amazed how much fabric you can fit in a cabinet that way-again no cardboard centers-allows more room for fabric)

1 yard or less pieces-folded the size of fat quarters and stacked vertically.

All medium and small amounts are in color groupings. All large and medium fabrics are in my cabinet that has doors. My small sized fabrics have been bumped to one of our book shelves, as there's no longer space in the cabinet for them. But I'm always on the lookout for a larger cabinet that can hold all of my cotton fabric. All flannel is in a different shelving unit in a closet upstairs.