The focus of the Tots 100 Home Club this month is storage and I am ashamed to say that I have more fabric that is decent. It was just shoved in to every spare space in the study/craft room. I often bought new fabric for specific tasks as I couldn’t find what I was looking for, so decided that I HAD to organise my fabric first and foremost.
I decided that the easiest way to store it would be to fold it all the same size and store in some new baskets which I purchased from Homebase for this specific task. They were £14.99 each and should last for a long time. But how best to fold it all? I remember seeing on Sew Justine Sew last year that see stored her larger fabric on comic boards, but most of my fabric are smaller pieces and I didn’t have enough storage to hold it all on comic sized sheets. So I decided to re purpose something we already had, a ream of printer card.
- The card is a4 sized
- Fold it in half to make it A5 size.
- Lay out your fabric (I have used this for all my fabric from fat quarter to 4 yards)
- Fold the bottom of the fabric over the card and crease to the end of the fabric
- Do the same with the top
- then wrap the fabric over the card
- continue to do so until the fabric is all wrapped around the card.
I then placed the fabric in the baskets and on to an existing wrack that we already have. I used some hampers to store quilt filling and stuffed toy filling on top of the unit. I like using the hampers as you can squash it all in and then fasten it!
I would love to know how you store your fabric and other items for crafting.
Love all your gorgous fabrics Jen, what a great idea to wrap them in this way and with the open baskets you can see them all easily.
Like art in a basket.
Great storage solution xx
Really need to get on with my challenge.
What a wonderful idea Jen & so tidy. Well done. I have got some much stuff to sort in this house!
I just store mine on open shelves in piles by colour. I rarely buy more than 1/4m – I’d love to buy more of my favourites but rarely can afford or justify it. A system like this would work much better as at least they’d all be the same size, I do try to fold to the same size but without the card to wrap around they all end up slightly different. Now I just need to face getting them all out and doing a lot of folding! Juliex
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This is such a great idea. I don’t have a crafting room so all my fabric, yarn, stationery, kit etc is stored here and there in random places throughout the house. I dream of something like this! I like the way you can see exactly what you have. All my fabric is in a drawer but lots gets hidden at the bottom, so you have to get everything out to find one thing. I think I need a system like yours.
Great idea, they are tidy, it looks good and the fabric is easy to access. I really could do with a craft tidy up!
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