Perfect fab storage. Need ideas please.
12-11-2020, 07:22 PM
#22
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I really like the one lawyer book case I have with those glass flip down sliding out covers for the shelves. I have it against the north wall away from windows so no sunlight hits them and the glass doors keeps the dust out, yet I have a clear view of them and the doors are so easy to flip back and slide in out of the way. I think I would get more of them! I too just ruler fold all my stash of one yard or more. For the half yard cuts and the fat quarters, I have a cabinet with slide out drawers and have the fabric folded and stacked in rows in the drawers so again, I can see what I have without pulling things out. My scraps would go into clear bins on shelving units. Again sorted by color and/or size of scrap. I like being able to see what I have before I start pulling things out.
12-12-2020, 06:31 AM
#26
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Can you say why you don’t want the comic boards?
Our system includes kitchen cabinets in our sewing room with most fabrics ruler folded and sorted by color in the uppers. Solids are in one cabinet. Blenders are in one cabinet. Holiday is in one cabinet. Precuts including GQ are in one cabinet.
In the lowers we have large cuts (backing), kits, and bolts. We also have a lower cabinet for packaged batting. Another lower has stray tools, a basket of seldom-used rulers, a backup iron, and a mystery corner 🤣. We have made a flat ironing surface and put on one counter, and we cut on an island made of kitchen lowers.
We have one bookshelf with doors where we store books and I-Spy fabrics.
If we were starting again, I would like to have some shallow, tall shelves to store fabric. I’ve seen IKEA shelves that fit the bill - I think they’re Billy shelves. Fabric would be folded on boards and standing upright. It’s not a complete disaster to pull stacks of fabric when we’re making selections, but it is a bit of a pain putting everything back, and making sure it’s stacked straight so everything fits. I just think having it stored upright “quilt shop style” would make it easier to take out and put away. I like the way we have everything sorted; it is very easy to find what we’re looking for. We would still have some lowers with an ironing station. We would cut on the Martelli table.
Sorry if the pic is upside down!
Our system includes kitchen cabinets in our sewing room with most fabrics ruler folded and sorted by color in the uppers. Solids are in one cabinet. Blenders are in one cabinet. Holiday is in one cabinet. Precuts including GQ are in one cabinet.
In the lowers we have large cuts (backing), kits, and bolts. We also have a lower cabinet for packaged batting. Another lower has stray tools, a basket of seldom-used rulers, a backup iron, and a mystery corner 🤣. We have made a flat ironing surface and put on one counter, and we cut on an island made of kitchen lowers.
We have one bookshelf with doors where we store books and I-Spy fabrics.
If we were starting again, I would like to have some shallow, tall shelves to store fabric. I’ve seen IKEA shelves that fit the bill - I think they’re Billy shelves. Fabric would be folded on boards and standing upright. It’s not a complete disaster to pull stacks of fabric when we’re making selections, but it is a bit of a pain putting everything back, and making sure it’s stacked straight so everything fits. I just think having it stored upright “quilt shop style” would make it easier to take out and put away. I like the way we have everything sorted; it is very easy to find what we’re looking for. We would still have some lowers with an ironing station. We would cut on the Martelli table.
Sorry if the pic is upside down!
12-12-2020, 06:40 AM
#27
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Wesing...easy to answer. I started ruler folding when I start quilting decades ago. Just got comfortable with this process. When the comic boards came into the picture, I decided I would rather buy fabric or notions rather than the boards. Sometimes old dogs refuse to learn new tricks. Our black labs taught us well.
12-12-2020, 10:16 AM
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I do have some of the hard plastic boards that I use as uprights for storing layer cakes in bins. They make nice separators.
12-12-2020, 10:27 AM
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As soon as I get organized, again, I need to FIX my fabric bookshelf. Oh and suppose need to clear off a place to ruler fold. No, wait. That activity comes under the heading of organize...right?
12-12-2020, 10:36 AM
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My sewing studio was designed back in 1997 just for my needs then. It included ample shelving in 2 Pantry cabinets and additional upper cabinets space. The cutting table is a wider counter top over lower cabinets t hat house many other crafting supplies. I house 6 sewing machines in this room and also my computer station with access to a bathroom on site. Over the years it seems to have gotten smaller and smaller and I have taken over our guest room with a 10' quilting frame and another sewing machine mounted to the frame and another 7 machines in there. I have one more machine in the living room.
