How are the comic boards working for you?
#13
I store my fabric stash in a a lateral cherry file cabinet, folded over hanging file folders. I can see what fabrics I have at a glance, the fabric stays clean and dust free and isn't exposed to sunlight that can fade it. I store small precut pieces like leftover binding and a note about the fabric name and store where I purchased it in the file folder. The cabinet looks nice in our home office too. It works for me.
#15
Power Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 17,810
I 've been quilting for over 35 years and I bought fabric faster then I could sew . Storing it has become a struggle. I have begun to give most of it away on the guild free table. Donation fabric for our community service will take it but then no one chooses the older darker prints to use for quilts, especially for the kid quilts.
#16
I 've been quilting for over 35 years and I bought fabric faster then I could sew . Storing it has become a struggle. I have begun to give most of it away on the guild free table. Donation fabric for our community service will take it but then no one chooses the older darker prints to use for quilts, especially for the kid quilts.
#17
Power Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 17,810
Some of it is used but it's always the last to be chosen so it ends up having to be stored and kept around for a long time especially when so much of the donated fabric is the darker floral prints. When we take lap quilts for assisted living groups and they choose a quilt they want the dark ones are always the ones left if more then enough to give out.
#19
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: NY
Posts: 2,505
I don't use comic boards. I can fit more fabric in the space available if I don't use them. I fold my fabric to fit whatever space I have. If you have enough fabric, they'll stand up like books. I don't prewash.
#20
Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 3
Does anyone know if storing fabric on comic boards or card stock takes up less room than if it is folded and stacked on top of each other? I have thought about the comic boards but I don't want to do that if it takes up more room than just folding and stacking the fabric.

