storage for stencils
 

How do you store your stencils? I have great storage for everything else but the stencils come in so many different sizes, shapes and themes. They also get "tangled" together easily. I only have a few stencils but plan to invest in more. My "freehand" quilting barely rivals the scribbling of a three year old.

i like the idea of hanging them on pants hangers in the closet

I hang mine on a hook on the peg board but first I take one of those little plastic thingey's that keep the bread wrapper closed and I staple it to the top edge of each stencil, then when I want a certain stencil I can just slip it off the hook and don't have to remove all the stencils hanging in front of the one I need.

go ahead, laugh at me, I thought this was asking how to store PENCILS and wondered what was wrong with the age old method of sticking them in a coffee cup!!!!! speaking of coffee - guess I need some more!

I group mine by size/shape, then put a round notebook ring through them, and then hang on a Command strip hook placed on the side wall of my closet. I have 3 groups and it makes it easy to find the one I want: long and wide for borders, medium length and narrow for inner borders, and square for blocks.

I kind of do the same thing, love it. I use the big ones from plastic garbage bags that I do not use and they are bigger and u have more room.
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LOL, exactly what I thought too. I need tea.

i bought one of those hangers type things from Joanns it is a round metal hoop with a hanger type thing on the top , i have 3 one for rulers,one for mats, and the other for stencils they hang on the back of my door

I'm using one of the smaller metal hinged Command Strip hooks attached to the wall. I also use them to hang my rulers.