Lots of fabric organization
 

Just found this site today.
http://www.sewwequilt.com/2010/10/we...rawer.html?m=1

Interesting - she is organized!

I have been trying to organize for the last couple of weeks. I feel like I've barely started. She can come to my house and help me out any time she wants!

wow.. thats a million lil containers !!!! Way to organized for me.. lol

This is my favorite fabric organization site. I found it years ago and still enjoy looking at her organization and stash. I come back to it every month or so.

When does she have time to actually sew?

That looks awesome

Oh my goodness- I thought that I had a big stash!!

I was wondering the same thing as Zinda I have a couple large bins marked Scraps. As to the yardage its on shelves. I found storage bins to be restrictive . I love seeing all my fabrics mingling together -I have a better view of which ones get along and will play nice together in a quilt. And popping lids to do a search for fabrics seems like work and would take the fun out of quilting.

OMG!!!!!! She will need 8 lifetimes to use all that! My stash looks manageable in size compared to that, so I feel much better about someday being able to use what I have. Still, I'd like to have just what she has as an investment in plastic bins to spend on more fabric!

Go deeper on the site...she does beautiful hand appliqué and hand quilting, from what I saw. That is a whole lot of stash though!

Interesting, I wonder if her home owners insurance covers that much stash.

Wow! She wins!! I was feeling guilty about all the fabric I have and feeling like I really WON'T outlive it, but this woman makes me feel so much better. Not only does she have a fortune in fabric, she has a fortune in storage containers!!

That is a huge amount of organized fabric containers. I could not break my stash down that specifically. I do use her suggestion about putting the contents of the container on an index card and inserting the card into the end of the container that shows off the shelf...but I only have a few containers not near 100!

I don't have time to look now, but I wonder if she has completed projects posted somewhere online.

Nan - IN

Wow! That's amazing organization. My stash is very small as I usually buy what I need per project. ( my scraps are a different story)

That must have taken a long time to do, but how nice to be able to go to one bin and pull what you want right out. I thought I had mine pretty organized, but now that I see this, not really.

Oh, boy, would I have fun shopping in her stash!!

Oh my gosh!! Great blog article, but that is too much like OCD to me! LOL So, I was feeling a little guilty about that order I just put in at Thousands of Bolts this morning because I thought I had enough fabric, but now I am feeling okay. I too would never be able to use what she has there, but then again, if she does this as a business and not as a hobby, then she may go through the fabric a little more quickly than I would. Thanks for the link to the article :)

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Now I know what to do when we move! :thumbup:

That is awesome!

Holy Cow! The next time my daughter complains about how big my stash is, I'll have to show her these pictures. I'm pretty sure she's got more money invested in storage containers than I do in fabric. I LOVE her organization though. Wow!

I really enjoyed reading her blog and looking at that beautiful applique quilt she is working on. Thanks so much for posting this. I think her system is great.

I think she is obsessed with collecting fabric. That's too much organization for me to find anything....

Unbelievable! Who has that much stash? It's mind boggling.

Wonderful, wonderful. Was just trying to organize in hardly any space. That is a kick-starter!!!!!

I guess I won't organize mine like that because I don't want to know how much I really have - LOL, or don't want the husband to know.

that's wonderful, but I couldn't afford all the containers and buy fabric, too!

My fabric storage
 

My fabric is stored in the garage in plastic bins. I like to be able to find things easily so it is sorted by color, theme, collection, etc. It is not nearly as neat as it could be but works for me.

A woman after my own heart. I wonder where she got the deep shelves. I have some, but must put bins sideways.

i look at this level of organization, and i drool. i'm "cut of a different cloth", though. i put things away in "project bags" (really just ziplock baggies) with the pattern or magazine in with them, so i don't forget. and the rest of the fabric languishes wherever i can find room. now that i've retired, i am going to try to achieve some kind of system beyond what i have, but i'm cursed with a visual/tactile brain. if i put things away too well, it's as though they disappear. supplies out of sight mean "i'm done" with this, and it is removed from my thinking, completely. it's gotten worse since a head/brain surgery 4 years ago. if i don't see it, it doesn't exist. so, the struggle goes on. i have to be able to see through the sides of a bin, i have to be able to touch the fabric for it to become something. any ideas?

She has more fabric on one shelf than I own. I purchase for each project. When I build enough leftover scraps, I make a scrap quilt. I would have a panic attack about investing that much money just in shelving, much less containers and fabrics.

she has more invested in tubs than I have invested in fabric. And I've been quilting for 40 years.

I showed the pictures from her blog to my husband and said "Don't you EVER fuss about my little bit of fabric again!" (In a joking manner, of course!) Wow, what a stash! Definitely something to strive toward - but not today.

She may enjoying organizing more than sewing. Some days I am like that, but I would go bonkers with that much stuff, no matter HOW organized! She's got a lot of great tips, though.

wow! my niece if she were a quilter would be exactly like that she is a great organizer and neat you look in her closet she even has the color of the hangers all in a row reds, blues whites she didn't get it from me or her mom lol! (my sister)

Thanks for sharing...

After keeping up with all that organization... does she really quilt!

Check out her blog. She does incredible appliqué and hand quilting.

interesting but I still like shelves for large pieces and plastic drawers for smaller pieces.I do not break mine down in such detail as she does either-I guess I may be a little lazy with the sorting of the small pieces.

Yikes!! I'd have to get a home equity loan just to buy all the plastic tubs and shelving! How I miss a basement for storage...