Because I am going from one area to another piecing, cutting etc I have mats and rulers constantly floating. To help I took a long piece of card board. Used the clear heavy gage plastic table cover plastic folded the top of the plastic down to stiffen it more and wrapped the lower 1/2 of the card board and taped it to the back. With a piece of ribbon through a pocket of bent back cardboard at the top I have hung it from a large thumb tack. In the pocket I store the smaller cutting grids and rulers. They are at my finger tips and off the ironing board. Smaller rulers, pencils etc are in a shoe type hanger. Over sewing areas they often get a ribbon strung through and hung on a nail or hook.