Organizing My Fabric Stash
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Welcome to Day 24 of 31 Days of Getting Organized!
DD and I got back home early yesterday morning… we were on a night flight and neither of us really slept much. So we both had a long nap and then pretty much just relaxed the rest of the day…. Oh, I actually did a bunch of sorting of recipes and recipe books on my computer, ready to transfer to my ipad, so that my recipes can be a bit more organized as well as my quilting stuff 🙂
One day I’ll share how I organize by recipes with Goodnotes, but now that I am home, I decided to head back to the sewing room… well, actually, to the lounge room, because that is where my quilting fabric lives 🙂 I really should have been unpacking, but… playing with fabric is more fun, right?!
Because my sewing corner is in our bedroom, I have most of my fabric in this bookshelf unit in the lounge room:
When DH moved all our stuff on his own last month, I haven’t touched this cupboard, and it really was in need of some re-organization:
I have no idea what is up with my photos today… they are a little fuzzy… hope you all can cope!
As you can see, it was a bit of a mess….
So, first step was to dump all the fabric on the coffee table:
That is really all the fabric I have here, other than precuts. The rest of my stash is back in Australia…. somewhere… Sorting this little pile didn’t take long – it would take much longer to sort my “real” stash!
Ever since I packed everything up and came back to the Middle East, I have been buying fabric in “collections” rather than just grabbing what I like and what is on sale, if that makes sense. Basically I mean I’ve been buying a group of fabric for a certain project… so when I was sorting my stash today, I had a bit of trouble. Normally I would sort by color… but that doesn’t really work for what I have here..
So then I thought I’d sort it by collection or project… which didn’t really work either because I had a bunch of odds and ends as well…
In the end I did the best I could – put all the whites and creams on a shelf, and basically just straightened out the rest of the fabric to neaten it up:
It does look better, but I am still not 100% happy with it…
I am happy with my little collection of thimbles, however:
These are just the ones I’ve collected from my travels the past year and those that friends have given me. I got a new one this last trip, the little Dutch boy and girl all the way on the right 🙂
Even though my fabric stash is not perfectly organized, it was still good to go through it and see what I have… Now I need to start sewing it all up 🙂
How do you organize your fabric stash? By color? By designer? By project? A bit of everything?
I do have most of my fabric sorted by colour. The precuts have their own shelf & then another shelf has fabrics just shoved in that i must sort out. That’s in the big cupboard. I’ve 2 other places with fabric stored. 1 is sorted by colour but the other is mostly B & C fabrics. Oh yes i do have 3 large plastic tubs & a basket containing my reproduction fabrics. Hmm i think all my fabrics need to be sorted through again to tidy & clean out really small pieces then I think i need to have myself a destash as i really don’t think i’ll ever use it all up. 🙂 Hugs,xx
I love your cupboard full of things and fabric and all sorts…. what fun. my fabric is just all over the place…. in drawers wherever I can fit it…
Hugz
Yes I think you might take a bit longer to sort out your other stash, and I am surprised you have not made a “quilt” with the fabric in that shopping trolley yet!! LOL.
i have a plastic tub for each of my kids prints, florals etc, plains/tone on tones and Christmas prints shoved in the cupboard. My pre cuts have a shelf of their own.
Your cupboard is more organised. Love the display of your thimbles. I have the one with the wee windmill too.
I think the whole cupboard looks wonderful now! And it is nice to refresh your mind’s eye as to what you have on hand!
My fabric is, I guess, in two parts. The crazy quilting fabrics (none of which measure much more than maybe 20″ square) are sorted by color into plastic drawers. The fabrics I’m now collecting I’ve been trying to shoehorn into three totes – one for skies, one for grass/trees, and one for buildings. Not such a good system but I don’t have space to do much else.
You’ve donme a great job of sorting and tidying….and I love your collection of thimbles too 🙂 My fabric is sort of stored by colour but also by typpe. i.e I have a bin of brighter/children’s fabrics and another one with reproduction. It’s my scraps that are all a bit of a jumble though – in spite of colour coded buckets, they are everywhere…..