♥♥ Fabric Collecting and Storage Ideas (Post your Tips and Pictures for all of us) ♥♥
08-03-2011, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
I also use the sterilite 3 drawers on rollers ( i take off the rollers) and clear shoeboxes I can find on sale for less than $1 for my accuquilt cut outs..
**PLEASE no makin fun of my messy room.. its normally cleaned up after every project.. **
I have these 3 drawers in various widths all over my room for crumbs, strips less than 5in, longer than 5in but less than10in, fabric pieces larger than 6x6 but less than a FQ.. 2 in strips by WOF separated by color, etc..
**PLEASE no makin fun of my messy room.. its normally cleaned up after every project.. **
I have these 3 drawers in various widths all over my room for crumbs, strips less than 5in, longer than 5in but less than10in, fabric pieces larger than 6x6 but less than a FQ.. 2 in strips by WOF separated by color, etc..
08-03-2011, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by JulieR
Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
I also use the sterilite 3 drawers on rollers ( i take off the rollers) and clear shoeboxes I can find on sale for less than $1 for my accuquilt cut outs..
**PLEASE no makin fun of my messy room.. its normally cleaned up after every project.. **
I have these 3 drawers in various widths all over my room for crumbs, strips less than 5in, longer than 5in but less than10in, fabric pieces larger than 6x6 but less than a FQ.. 2 in strips by WOF separated by color, etc..
**PLEASE no makin fun of my messy room.. its normally cleaned up after every project.. **
I have these 3 drawers in various widths all over my room for crumbs, strips less than 5in, longer than 5in but less than10in, fabric pieces larger than 6x6 but less than a FQ.. 2 in strips by WOF separated by color, etc..
08-03-2011, 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
yea thats for my ' I wanna make these someday!' patterns.. My father in law was a Head football coach so we had TONS of clipboards in his office so I 'borrowed' them.. (ignore the chips ahoy- must of been a bad day!) lol..
08-03-2011, 12:51 PM
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My (future) idea for storage is to get an accuquilt and cut any extra pieces to a uniform size for specific scrap quilts. I don't maintain a stash per se but have leftovers from projects. I have 3 containers from Target to hold scraps and ongoing projects. Works for me. If I had the scraps precut, i would be more likely to actually make that scrap quilt!
08-03-2011, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by sparkys_mom
This thread would be incomplete without this video "tutorial". :-D http://youtu.be/OKiiOH5oJfs
08-03-2011, 01:21 PM
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I work in the Electronics department at Wal-Mart. One day we got this PDQ display of Nintendo DS Lites. The display itself was basically two shelves with little cubbie holes---entirely made out of cardboard. We didn't have room for the display so I was given the task of removing all the DS's and breaking down the display. Instead of completely breaking it down I swiped half of it and used it for my fabric.
A couple weeks ago another display got brought down. This one had the cubbie holes, but it was smaller and the cubbie holes weren't quite as deep. It had plastic hooks on them to hang up card packs. I am currently collecting fabrics for 8 stained glass wallhangings and thought I could use this to organize my fabrics for the 6 main ones. So I swiped that display, put my wallhanging fabrics into plastic bags, and hung the bags up on the hooks (giving each wallhanging its own hook).
Also, I labeled those fabrics with sticky notes. I put down the name of the wallhanging, the color the fabric was for, and the fabric's maker and manufacture number (ex. NABOORU Color 12 Moda Marble 9881-91) At Wal-Mart they have a whole bin of them for the Back-To-School stuff. They had six different colors, which was great because my wallhangings are themed around a certain color. So I could color code my fabrics and know what wallhanging they were for just by looking at the color of the sticky note.
(I'll try to get pictures later)
A couple weeks ago another display got brought down. This one had the cubbie holes, but it was smaller and the cubbie holes weren't quite as deep. It had plastic hooks on them to hang up card packs. I am currently collecting fabrics for 8 stained glass wallhangings and thought I could use this to organize my fabrics for the 6 main ones. So I swiped that display, put my wallhanging fabrics into plastic bags, and hung the bags up on the hooks (giving each wallhanging its own hook).
Also, I labeled those fabrics with sticky notes. I put down the name of the wallhanging, the color the fabric was for, and the fabric's maker and manufacture number (ex. NABOORU Color 12 Moda Marble 9881-91) At Wal-Mart they have a whole bin of them for the Back-To-School stuff. They had six different colors, which was great because my wallhangings are themed around a certain color. So I could color code my fabrics and know what wallhanging they were for just by looking at the color of the sticky note.
(I'll try to get pictures later)
08-03-2011, 06:36 PM
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lots of neat ideas :) we're moving (this weekend actually) so all of the quilting stuff is packed and ready to go. Actually, I have it stacked and labled all together by the door to go first so it can't accidentally get lost lol :)
08-03-2011, 06:43 PM
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Everyone has such neat ideas! i wish I had room for the shoe cubbies. Right now, the fabrics I have sorted are in a pantry, which covers almost one wall and 2 closets. Not sure where the fabrics still in totes will go, lol.
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