One of my hopes in organising my sewing stuff is that I will be able to locate things quickly so I need a storage method which enables me to see at a glance just what I have.
I have a lot of smallish pieces of fabric, fat quarters or thereabouts so I decided to store them in the nine litre Really Useful Boxes which I use for craft storage. I folded each separate piece of fabric on to cards measuring roughly eight by five inches and here is the result of my first days efforts.
These boxes can be stacked easily so I should be able to keep several boxes in a neat pile. Well, that's the plan.
But there will be an awful lot of boxes.
It is all too true, I am sure that there are fabrics in my stash that I have never set eyes on before. I have toyed with the notion of wrapping fabric round cards, many of the US bloggers do that. I am not altogether sure that I would be strong enough to rewind every time I cut strips off my yardage.
ReplyDeleteWe had some visitors today - 12 year old autistic twins who we love but they do tend to say it how it is:"Your house is messy!" flowed off the tongue of one of them as they walked in the door - time for me to get to grips with it all over again, I think!
ReplyDeleteoh, you need to come to my house -- my stash is a shambles
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely how you've colour-coded all the fabric too... I bet that inspires future projects. Jx
ReplyDeleteI think between us we have an massive collection of plastic boxes! I have done similar to you to try to make it easier to find things. The boxes also keep fabrics and ribbons clean and fresh.
ReplyDeleteI live in hope that the "new" organisation will make tings easier to find and also to move out when I need to change the function of the room. Hope you are soon feeling better, Kentish Maid.
DeleteThank you. I'm tidying in my mind still. Does that count!
DeleteNothing is quite as therapeutic as organising stuff into a new storage system! Have fun with the rest of it :)
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