Fabric Organization

08 Friday Feb 2013

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DIY fabric organizers, fabric boards, fabric organization, How to organize fabric, organization, organize fabric, organize sewing room, sewing room organization

As much as I love fabric I find it to be the one supply I keep on hand that is the hardest to store. Finding a way to store my fabric so that I can easily look for a particular color or design is a nightmare at times.

Last week I came across a blog at The Cottage Home she had her fabric organized in a way I had never seen before. I looked up the fabric organizers and the prices are a little to high for the amount of fabric I have. So as an alternate I purchased magazine backing boards.

I am not in any way affiliate with either company: retailer nor manufacturer. If you are interested in these boards this is the site I purchased them from TC Bulk. After searching many sites this was the cheapest place for this size of board.

I bought the largest boards I could find and ended up having to cut a little off the longest end so they would stand in my shelf. Since this is a light weight paper board I was able to use my paper cutter to adjust the size of my boards.

You can wrap your fabric any way that you like this is how I did mine. Starting from the far right end of my fabric I left just enough to hold as I started wrapping my fabric around the boards. The sticker in the top right hand corner is my item number and cost label. Keeping everything labeled makes it easier to calculate pricing as I am working on an item.

At the end I did not secure me fabric in anyway. Once I place these on the shelf they are not going to come apart as they are packed in so tight.

Here is my completed and organized shelf. I still have to finish the fabric on the bottom shelf but I do not think I have enough boards. It took me nearly 150 boards to do what is on the two shelves in this photo. I only purchased 200 thinking I could do the entire shelf.

I still want the fabric organizers from The Fabric Organizer and will purchase different sizes little by little but the magazine boards are a good start.

If you get a chance be sure to check out the wonderful blogs over at The Cottage Home and be sure to take a peak at her studio The Cottage Home Studio.

Update: May 28, 2015

I am excited to share with you my new cabinet I got several months ago. So long plastic shelf.

Space is Limited

25 Thursday Oct 2012

Posted by Tiffany Brooks in Organizing

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fabric organization, hot to organize, Organizing, small room organizing, space is limited

Working out of the home can be a challenge for many. Finding a space to store supplies for projects can be a nightmare. As a seamstress working out of my home I always have fabric and other supplies on hand.
But where do I put it all until I have a use for it?

Many years ago we were living in a small two bedroom apartment. The apartment was bigger than our first place but little did I know 1200 sq. feet would disappear very quickly as we began to move in. My sewing room was a small office off the master bedroom. I soon found out this small office was much too small to be a sewing room. But as anyone would do in my position we make do with what we have.

I have yet after all these years found the right way to store the fabric I have on hand. But as you can see a tall book shelf and some storage bins are a great way to add some sort of organization for the small items. A few of the bins were big enough to store some small projects that were incomplete at the time. Having all the pieces to an outfit in one bin really helps when you are working on a project.

So far the plastic shelving (I bought the white one at Wal-Mart in the hardware department) has been a good way for me to store my fabric. I have the fabric organized on the shelves by fabric type. If I want to work on a quilt I know to go straight to the cotton shelf to see what cotton fabric I have on hand.

When organizing, I always look at what I have at the time. I had these shelves already so I had to think of a low cost way to organize with these. Ideally something with doors would have been a better way to hide the clutter. I settled for these bins at Target as they are durable and easy to arrange in different spaces.

This is how I organized my small work space in 2008. Soon I will share pictures with you of my new larger space. And I will let you in on a few secrets to storing without cluttering.