From – Jan 27 2010
As I mentioned in the beginning of Fabric Storage Week, this last suggestion is from my actual storage dilemma. I have tried several solutions. I came up with a system that seems to work for me. It involves plastic sweater drawers. The material is protected from dust. I am able to see what I have and in what approximate amounts and it makes my sewing room pretty.
The organization of my stash varies, depending on what the purpose of the purchase was. Some of the fabric drawers are filled with themes; a drawer for juvenile prints, one for wine related motifs, my group of beach-y looking patterns and one for undersea critters.
Then I have fabric grouped by color. I have a pink drawer, a blue one, greens, black and white designs, etc. Lastly, I have fabric that is sorted by project. The bundle that will become a batik twisted log cabin for my nephew and his bride is in one bin and the colors and prints I picked out for my own bed is in another.
All in all I am pleased with this arrangement with one caveat. It seems that I had to come to the realization that only a certain cubic footage of stuff would fit into a finite cubic footage of space. The best organization in the world won’t change the fact that I have more than I can put away.
The problems of a chronic fabric-o-holic remain.
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