A friend recently passed this idea to me. Any fabric left over from a project she cuts into strips 2and a half inches wide (like Jelly Rolls) and rolls it up. This way the scraps don't crease (which means I dont use them) and they are ready for a Jelly Roll pattern. All my fat quarters are stored in plastic baskets and the yardage is folded on shelves. All the haberdashery - ribbon, felt, zips, card templates, crochet cotton is in shoe boxes and labelled. Photocopies of patterns and designs are filed in plastic sleeves in ring-binders. Hope this helps.