How to Organize Your Fabric Stash || Let's Get Organized! Week 9

Do you struggle in how to organize your fabric stash? Organizing fabric yardage can be overwhelming. How do you organize your fabric yardage? Do you use comic book boards? Bins? Open containers? For Week 9 of our Sewing Organization Challenge, we will discuss how we storage yardage and more, including showing how to use a comic book board for yardage storage.

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[GailK.]

I just ordered two pkgs of comic book boards and a bag of clips (I have some somewhere but...). Last year I renovated my sewing room, two walk-in closets and bath into an apartment for my mother. my sewing room moved across the hall to a room half the size. I’m still hauling boxes out of the attic of fabric, threads, tools, books, magazines, WIPs, etc. Yesterday, my neighbor’s teenage daughter said she would love to come over a couple days a week and help me go through drawers and boxes and get things organized and labeled and put on shelves. I have collected tons of jars and little boxes and she’s bringing over little yogurt jars. I can’t wait to be able to find what I’m looking for again. By the time I’ve found what I needed, I’m too tired to sew. Lol. You’re an inspiration and I’m having fun organizing along with you.

[suestutzle]

I like the way you keep your fabrics. Would that I could. Where I live it can get very dusty. Keeping my fabrics on shelves is definitely risky for my fabrics. I inherited lots of dress fabric from my Aunty when she died. She was a dressmaker and I have some fabulous pieces of fabric which I have started to use. I keep them stored in plastic containers down the room where everything that doesn't have a home goes! Yes, they are safe there, out of the light and heat and protected from all the dust but they are hard to get at. I have to rummage through containers to see what I would like to use. I sorted them into knits, summer fabrics and winter fabrics, cottons, voiles etc but then I would have some fabric left over and I just started putting it where there was space in a container.... you know the story, things have gotten out of hand but still, despite it all, it really suits me the best, even if I secretly would like to have it all bolted up and displayed. Sigh....

[alisonmary]

How could that lady say that, there is beauty in everything, blindness to that can cause a hard heart :( Thank you for video, I love this channel 🌸

[desleybartlett]

Thanks for your trouble Kris. Hope you get well soon. Have seen on the news the terrible weather you are experiencing over there at the moment. We are having hot sticky days. Very hot and the humidity is very high. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Desley

[conqueringmountscrapmorewi]

Great storage tips! Thank you for sharing!

[berthaemerson]

Wow!!! You have alot of nice fabric👍👍👍

[stitchann]

Oh Kris, I love the fabric that you made the Kitty pet bed out of. I fold my fabric on my large ruler and it is stored on shelves with doors that can open. That way my shelves can be completely visible when I open the doors and tidy when they are closed and keep out the light.
I might try your comic book cards though, that looks interesting. That was not very nice of that woman to say that was an ugly quilt. It is very colourful and has pizzazz.

[jojorey]

I think I could be better organized if my sewing room was larger than 10x8’ maybe smaller. Plus my ceiling is slanted from the roof and I have a chimney jutting out a wall, a window and a doorway so I don’t have wall space. However, I have it organized really well with furniture from IKEA - 2 Alex draws with a table top and a table with two leaves(when it’s closed it’s 8”. I love my space, it’s cozy and bright. I have to put my yardage in a very small closet in another room. I have a landing with a small bureau from ikea that I store precuts. My sewing room has the Ivar shelves and 3 draw combination and that’s my wall space along with my industrial machine. I’m always looking for ways to utilize the space as best as possible and I’ve come a long way.

[suekelly]

For me, the down side of using the packs comic book boards is that I now know how many pieces of fabric I have in my stash!

[SewFun]

Back before comic book boards I used one of my rulers to wrap the fabric around and then slid it off to stack it. that kept it a consistent width and looked good on the shelves. I like the boards much better. FYI DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK IN THE COMMENTS BELOW.

[latetotheparty]

I wrap the fabric around my long 8” wide ruler. It slides right out.