Take a peek into my sewing room: Fabric storage
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This is a series on sewing room organization and storage, complete with videos! Over the next few weeks, I'll share ideas for fabric stash organizing, thread storage and cataloging embroidery designs. Be sure to visit my blog every week or sign up for my newsletter for the lastest issue!
I'd love to hear the many ways you organize and store things in your sewing room, so leave a comment with your favorite sewing room ideas!
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I store my large pieces of fabric, larger than a 1/4 yard, in my two bookcases with fabric covers. Above these two bookcases I have two totes where I store small and large scraps.
Inside my small scraps tote are small scraps of fabric and various quilt blocks that are leftover from projects. They are perfect for applique or color reference, but none of them are larger than a 18" square. The second tote is labeled as large scraps. These pieces are bigger than the small scraps such as fat quarters and pieces of fabric that are less than 1/4" yard.
The two bookcases that store my fabric have five shelves each. They 6' tall by 30" wide with the shelves being 12" deep and the space between shelves varies from 12"-14". I have three piles of fabric on each shelf. If I fold my fabric lengthwise into a 10" width and then fold it in half across the fabric width, it fits perfectly on the shelf with the folded edge facing out.
One bookcase holds my solids, marbles, tone on tone pieces and Christmas fabric. I do also have some polyester ultrasuede and felt, which I use for stitching embroidery designs on the top shelf. Otherwise all of the other fabrics are 100% cotton.
The fabrics are sorted by color - whites, blacks, ivory & tans, pinks, purples, yellows & golds & browns, maroons & reds, blues and greens. Each pile of color is sorted by lighter to darker shades. The bottom shelf holds my Christmas fabric which consists of reds & greens, ivory & golds and blues & whites.
The second bookcase holds all my prints and flannels. Flannels are on the bottom two shelves. They are grouped by solids and prints. The next shelf holds two piles of novelty prints such as butterflies, apples, leaves, quilting, hearts, etc. The third pile on this shelf holds baby and kids prints such as bears, bunnies and Noah's ark.
The fourth shelf has a pile of western & farm prints, a pile of geometric, stripes, checks & borders and then starts my pile of florals. The fifth shelf holds the majority of my florals sorted by color: purple, green, ivory & white, blue, red and yellow.
I love my fabric covers that cover my bookcases because I can raise them and keep them open while I am looking for the fabric I need or I can stuff everything inside and close the shade and no one can see my vast collection of fabric!
How do you store your fabric? What are some of your favorite storage ideas! I'd love to hear your comments! :)
Stay tuned next week for how I made my bookcase fabric covers!
posted by Serena at 9:28 PM
2 Comments:
My daughter put up tracking rails and then we placed shelf brackets at different levels. The shelving holds my solids and prints together as I arrange them by by color. I do not have them covered but probably a good idea. Some fabrics I store by theme like Red Hats, Christmas, etc.
Your stash looks so organized, it puts me to shame. I am like you said you used to be: I store my fabric in plastic totes. The problem with that is that I don't know for sure where everything is or even what I have. This is one thing that I really need to work on.....soon! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas.
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