How do you store your rulers?
#11
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 11,276
This is the best storage option I've found so far. Don't have room for a peg board as I sew in my dining room. It's on wheels so I can move it easily. I'm storing my printed patterns also. I found this rolling file at a thrift store
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The thing I like is that I can store my rulers & templates with the instructions. Although hanging folders have been suggested before, this unit allows me to make outsized ones. Here's a wide one, made from poster board and 2 canibalized pendaflex metal hanging parts. Rulers stored in these long ones need to be removed from the side of the unit.
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Here's a deep one for my 12.5 X12.5 square up. You can see how I cut the bottom off & extended it.
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Last week I just realized that if I lower the top rail so the tabs are below the posts, I can get my husband to cut a sheet of plywood and make a top. Just what I need, another flat surface.
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The thing I like is that I can store my rulers & templates with the instructions. Although hanging folders have been suggested before, this unit allows me to make outsized ones. Here's a wide one, made from poster board and 2 canibalized pendaflex metal hanging parts. Rulers stored in these long ones need to be removed from the side of the unit.
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Here's a deep one for my 12.5 X12.5 square up. You can see how I cut the bottom off & extended it.
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Last week I just realized that if I lower the top rail so the tabs are below the posts, I can get my husband to cut a sheet of plywood and make a top. Just what I need, another flat surface.
Last edited by PaperPrincess; 02-10-2017 at 08:00 AM.
#16
i have no room for peg board. i sew in my dining room, so no where to put rulers either. and i have lots of rulers ..in a corner between hutch & deck doors/windows i have hung command hooks. all my rulers are up and hanging & not too noticeable if i have the rare dinner guests my block book with felt & vinyl pages is hanging there also. up out of way of kitties looking for a nice bed when i'm not sewing.
#18
I have an old mail in out holder that is a step up each slot type. It works great and sits near where I cut my blocks. Two long rulers hang by their lip off the side of the bookcase where they all sit. It would be perfect, except I have misplaced my main cutting ruler. I haven't a clue where I have placed it. I have been using the really long one, but I think it is time to break down and buy another.
As far as the mail holder goes, I must have 15 assorted rulers stored in it. These are the ones I use the most. I also have a drawer in my closet with a few specialty rulers and nails in my closet with quilting templets and rulers hanging there.
I know where they all are and what I have this way.
As far as the mail holder goes, I must have 15 assorted rulers stored in it. These are the ones I use the most. I also have a drawer in my closet with a few specialty rulers and nails in my closet with quilting templets and rulers hanging there.
I know where they all are and what I have this way.
Last edited by RedGarnet222; 02-10-2017 at 11:23 AM.
#19
I have a piece of wood with slots in it. It was originally for holding cookbooks open. My rulers slide in that. But it isn't big enough for all my rulers. So a friend gave me something that she got at Bed and Bath. I don't know what it's called but it looks like something you put file folders in. It's sturdy enough to support my bigger rulers.
#20
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 9,782
Ditto on the pegboard here. And when I'm using them and don't want to hang them, but don't want them in the way I stand them on the floor next to my table legs which are somewhat inset so the rulers aren't in the way.
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