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How to organize and store fabric.
I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the
best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
If I were using a dresser or bin I would make stacks of fabric organized by
color, type or whatever you prefer but then lay it on it's side so you can see the narrow edge of everything. I like using cabinets- it's all out of the sunlight to prevent fading and I can see everything easily. http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...60435514isRYKQ http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...60435514jRFVSw Good luck with finding a solution that works well for you! Leslie & The Furbabies in MO, "She in PA" wrote in message ... I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
Do you have a closet in your sewing room? I was able to install shelves
in the closet in mine and then sort and store my fabric by color on the shelves. Being able to close the doors helps protect it from sunlight and QIs! -- Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa She in PA wrote: I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
It is the really big and really small pieces that hamper organizing the rest
of the fabric. There's a few very long fabrics here. They are for backing quilts and the easiest way to store them is hanging in a closet. I don't need them until I need them so I keep them out of the way. The small pieces - in the FQ size/range, I slip into the leftover plastic bags that my batting comes in. When I need just a little something of a color, they're all together and easy to spy. My biggest challenge in organizing is the 'not exactly' fabrics that don't fit into a category. Just now there's a pretty butterfly one that's staying in the turquoise bin. Polly "Louise in Iowa" nieland1390@mchsi-dot-com wrote in message ... Do you have a closet in your sewing room? I was able to install shelves in the closet in mine and then sort and store my fabric by color on the shelves. Being able to close the doors helps protect it from sunlight and QIs! -- Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa She in PA wrote: I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
I have a closet with sliding doors in my sewing room. One side I have
shelved so that it will hold mid-sized sterilite boxes of fabrics. The other side has Yaffa type grids that I have fabrics stored by colors in. They are really easy to work with and have made a move with me easily. I tend to have smaller pieces of fabrics. The really big stuff I have in large sterilite totes stased in other closets. the garage, the shed, etc. The size of your stash would lend itself to different options that could work for you. It is fun to google images of sewing or quilting rooms to see what folks do with their stashes. Taria "She in PA" wrote in message ... I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
I have a couple of novelty bins for theme or
odd ball type fabric Polly. That works pretty ok. The butterflies and the dollar bill print seem to work together there. Taria "Polly Esther" wrote in message ... It is the really big and really small pieces that hamper organizing the rest of the fabric. There's a few very long fabrics here. They are for backing quilts and the easiest way to store them is hanging in a closet. I don't need them until I need them so I keep them out of the way. The small pieces - in the FQ size/range, I slip into the leftover plastic bags that my batting comes in. When I need just a little something of a color, they're all together and easy to spy. My biggest challenge in organizing is the 'not exactly' fabrics that don't fit into a category. Just now there's a pretty butterfly one that's staying in the turquoise bin. Polly "Louise in Iowa" nieland1390@mchsi-dot-com wrote in message ... Do you have a closet in your sewing room? I was able to install shelves in the closet in mine and then sort and store my fabric by color on the shelves. Being able to close the doors helps protect it from sunlight and QIs! -- Louise in Iowa nieland1390@mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa She in PA wrote: I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
Whichever containers you end up with, they should not be too deep.
That way, you can fold your fabric "book style" and have a fold of everything in sight. the thickness of the fold will pretty much tell you how big the piece is. My containers hold a FQ folded first in half parallel to the selvedge, then in thirds, to make a rectangle about 11" X 6". For WOF pieces, I fold in fourths parallel to the selvedge, then keep folding until it's about a half yard long, then in thirds. Ideally, you need containers that are just wide enough to hold this size, maybe about 12" wide, and as deep as your shelf. The containers should also be see-through so you can sort by e.g. color or theme and see exactly which one you need. If I had unlimited closets (daydreaming here), I'd buy a bazillion hangers and install rods about 15" apart and hang everything -fewer creases! Roberta in D On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:42:44 -0700 (PDT), She in PA wrote: I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
She in PA wrote:
I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. Hello She, First I had a wooden cupboard that held my fabric in stacks according to colour. I could open the doors to the cupboard and see what I owned, and just go from there. Sadly, due to building works and space issues, the cupboard is now in storage, and my fabric is in boxes, some cardboard and some clear plastic. I can sort of see into the boxes, but it's not the same as just opening a cupboard door. Also, the boxes are stacked up, so I have to undo the whole stack if I want the fabric at the bottom. So if you go for boxes, think about how you'll store them. Now I'm getting shelves built in the spare bedroom, and that will be great, but I'll have to protect the fabric from the light, so will have some sort of UV-coated film put over the windows and will have to make curtains to go in front of the shelves as well. Think about how much light will come into your room and how fast you plan to work through your fabric. This room I'll be using faces west so gets a lot of sun throughout the day! I recommend getting cupboards with doors personally. I didn't have to unstack boxes and remove lids to get to the fabric. I didn't have to worry about light exposure, or cats tipping things over. If you can find an old armoire (is that what they are called?) at a yard sale or a second hand furniture shop, go for that. Something rather upright that you can open the doors to it... I think that's better than a dresser or any other option I have tried. -- Jo in Scotland |
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How to organize and store fabric.
I agree with what others have said: the ideal is to have shelves in a
closet or cabinet. My mom had a big cabinet for her fabrics. I wish I did. Thus far, I'm relyinng on boxes and baskets and lateral file drawers and high closet shelves. I've tried to sort the fabrics according to some kind of system, but I always end up hunting for particiular fabrics anyway. Short lengths go into one box, scraps into bags, large lengths into additional boxes, with an attempt at descriptive labeling on the side. Mercifully, I don't have a very big stash. Yet. ep "She in PA" wrote in message ... I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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How to organize and store fabric.
For around $400, I bought 2 IKEA PAX wardrobes, each 39 wide x 90 high x
13 3/4 deep, added solid doors and 5 shelves each. I fold my fabric over 1/2 yard around an 8 1/2 x 24 ruler, then fold in half again, and stack by color on the shelves. Each shelf can hold 4 stacks. Under 1/2 yard I wrap around a 4x14 ruler, then line them up in bins, which I then put in the shelves. I figure each cabinet can house around 500 yds of fabric. I don't have that much, but I do have room for batting and for whole bolts of backing fabric, too. Also stabilizer and fusibles and other stuff that comes in bolts. It's great because all I have to do is open the doors and I can see my entire stash. No rooting, and the solid doors protect everything from fading. -- Valerie in FL My quilty stuff: http://community.webshots.com/user/vjkahler "She in PA" wrote in message ... I am in the process of moving my sewing room and trying to find the best way to organize and sote my fabric. I have tryed dressers and bins. tell me how is the best way you have found. I hate digging trying to find what I need. |
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