How do you organize lots of fabric stash?

[Donna N.]

I have about 100 yards or more of stash. I have 18 drawers that I want to use to hide all my stash in. I had it on couple of bookshelves but want to keep the dust and cat hair off the fabric so now I want to put the stash in drawers. Any ideas would help me. Tell me what works for you so I can get myself more organized.

Thanks
Shirley

[Donna N.]

Go to Alex's classroom, community/alex-anderson/ and take a look at hers. You thik you have problems. :wink:

[Donna N.]

Not sure what I am doing wrong but I can't get any Watch this Video to play. It opens a new window titled Heading _Title on the bar and nothing in the window. Is it my machine or something to do with the site? I could watch them this morning at 1 AM.

Shirley

[Donna N.]

I can't get anything to play either. I sent a message to Bob in tech support. Hope he can get it working soon. The show that starts today won't play either. Marge

[Donna N.]

I also couuldn't get the video of Alex's stash to work. I was able to get the show with Marti Michele with no problem. Hope we will be able to watch Alex's class room soon.
I just went to the Alex's Classroom, and none of the videos work.

[Donna N.]

You're not the only one so it is something on their side. Bobbi

[Sherry B.]

It should be working now. I emailed them this morning and got a response that there had been a problem with the video server and it has been resolved.

[Sherry B.]

Yes, it is working again. It is now 2:36 pm Pacific time. Bobbi

[Hannelore N.]

Keep all your fabrics mixed up. Then every time you need something, you automatically get re-aquainted with all your fabric.

Lorchen ('quilt-anarchist')

[Sherry B.]

Lorchen, you make me smile.

[Sherry B.]

Hi!
I recently reoranized my sewing room and stash. I wanted to have some sort of bookcase or cabinet that had glass doors. I looked at lot's of different things but fell in love with a 1890's pie safe that had the mesh/punched tin replaced with glass. I collect vintage furniture, so this was as much about love of the piece itself and the function I wanted.

A couple of pictures of my stash in it's new home are in my personal pictures in my profile.

Also, I recently spent the day at IKEA (what a great fun place that is.. but don't get me started ) Anyway, they have a lot of cabinets/bookshelves that have glass fronts that show off beautiful fabric. They have a wide range of sizes and prices.

I folded each of my pieces of fabric to the same size and grouped by color. For smaller pieces (like 1/4 yard left-overs or fat quarters) I folded them and put them in pretty baskets.

Good luck!!

[Sherry B.]

Love the Pie Safe!!! And I didn't know Ikea was in the states, thought they were just european!!!! Are the instructions good or crap like the ones in our furniture purchases!!! ops:
Lynn

[Robin G.]

Re; IKEA instructions - they are absolutely the BEST! No words, just pictures that are easy to follow. In my house we have a routine whenever we get something from IKEA that needs assemble. I read the instructions out loud to my husband (I am much better at deciphering visual things like that) and he does all the work. How great is that?

[Robin G.]

IKEA's the best and only 45 minutes away from my home. I have their Klik Klak sleeper sofa, and two chairs. both assembled by me. Just make sure you have a vehicle long enough to transport the long boxes home in..

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/

[Robin G.]

I have about 100 yards or more of stash. I have 18 drawers that I want to use to hide all my stash in. I had it on couple of bookshelves but want to keep the dust and cat hair off the fabric so now I want to put the stash in drawers. Any ideas would help me. Tell me what works for you so I can get myself more organized.
Thanks
Shirley

Shirley, I told my DH what you wrote, he laughed and almost choked. You see, I have many, many times the number of yards of stash than you have. I've been working these past two weeks to pare it down by choosing a good portion of it to donate to a charity. I always find it difficult to not buy every single piece of fabric that I like. I admit it, I am addicted to fabric!

Years ago DH built pull out shelves for me, floor to ceiling and wall to wall. It's grown from there but my "wall of fabric" is sorted by color then in categories, eg. holiday, novelty, children, baby. I used to have my sewing machine facing that wall because it's so pretty to look at. Alas, I grew out of that room and had to move the machine into another. Now I have a fabric storage room and a sewing room. I am very fortunate to have a DH who also has a hobby (woodworking) that always seems to require new "materials".

JoAnne in southern California