Organizing Quilting Rulers
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Welcome to Day 9 of 31 Days of Getting Organized!
If you are anything like me, you have a lot of quilting rulers… When I first started quilting, I only had two or three… But as the years went by, I added to my collection 🙂
When I had my little quilting shop, I had even more – because I had to test some of the rulers for classes I taught, and I also liked to have some in the classroom for students to use in case they forgot theirs.
I used to have them sitting flat on surfaces, until I discovered this simple solution:
These are two small boards with ridges in them to hold the rulers upright….
If you are clever with wood and power tools, I am sure you could make one or two or three of these fantastic ruler holders…
Does anyone else have these to organize their rulers? If not, how do you organize yours?
My rulers used to sit in a similar board to yours which i still have but i switched it to a cute little 2 drawer wooden stand with the ruler part on top. My rotary cutters & other notions live in the drawers. Hugs,xx
Hello Joy, those look good – I have some nails on the side of my big cupboards/cutting table and hang my rulers…. I tend to like things out the way and have limited shelf space…
Hugz
Mine all sit on a shelf right close at hand to my cutting area.
I do like the look of the grooved board to hold them but it does take up table top space which I like cleared!
Hi Joy, That is sure a clever way to store your rulers. I don’t have that many and they are just hanging on the wall. I don’t know where I would have room to set a nice gadget like yours to hold them. I had a question on the pearl cotton t Nancy hread. I have heard of it and saw on the internet that they used it for big stitch quilting. I wondered how you use your.
I use one of those types of boards as well, only mine doesn’t have quite as many dividers as the one you have. I also have a couple of cup hooks screwed into the side of my cutting table and I hang my square rulers there.
I do have one of those – but like some of the others – horizontal space is limited. So I now have a pegboard and hooks – ideally only one ruler per hook – but I seem to have acquired too many rulers, so they double up…..
And – in case you will get to embroidery hoops – they will go on a second one…when DH makes it !!
Great holder for your rulers.
I love organisation
DH made me a small one which holds a few of my rulers, others live in a drawer & the longer, bigger ones in the fabric storage cupboard. Yes, I have too many & should try and use some that I’ve never tried.
I also have a ruler holder like your Joy and love it.
i’ve only got a couple and I’ve always left them hanging around on the cutting table. Now I’m organising my studio, I think I might hang them on a hook. Lovely as your organiser is, it would take up too much room, especially as I have a 24″ ruler
I do now, but before, when I had tons of room, my husband put not-curvy hooks on a wooden bar in my fabric closet, and I hung them from there. Most of them had holes in them.