For goodness sake, get a grip and stop all this ‘advice’ and criticism and comments on her makeup style. Leave her alone. I didn’t even notice anything amiss. She looks good, she sounds good, her video is relaxing to watch and informative. STOP THERE
The first thing I saw was the red/pink eyeshadow and perhaps overpainted eyebrows (those may be her real ones, though) and it’s distracting. She would do well to have a makeup person show her how to make the best of her beauty. A lot of RUclipsrs do that. This is a great video otherwise and I wish her every success!
I can't count how many times I've watched this specific video to help organize my very small sewing room...lol... I absolutely LOVE how much better this method has my fabric organization. Thank you so much for sharing! 💜 Happy Sewing! 💜
I re-did my fabric stash last year,and i have a lot of it,as i worked in a quilt store for 10 years and before that i was always buying as i sewed a lot back then.I ended up going to the thrift store and buying used metal file cabinets,got 3 ,4 drawer ones for under 30.00,all in good condition and clean.Everyone stores everything on their computers now so no need for the file cabinets.Their loss,my gain.I already had my fabric wrapped on comic book boards,now most of it lives in those file cabinets.It's neat and orderly,color coded and out of the light and dust,so a winner no matter how you look at it. Your idea is good as well,as long as it's not out in bright light.
Different continent, same idea. I got one of those hanging file racks, and my fabrics are stored hanging from the file folder edges. So per folder, there can be two big pieces of fabric, one per edge. Or, when the pieces are smaller, I fold them less wide, and coordinate them on the edges in how they fit. Now that the out of light was mentioned, I guess, I will build a box around the steel frame.
I'm not worried about storing it so much as sorting it. Sounds like we have a shared history :-) so I'd like to ask do you sort strictly by color, or do you separate the Kaffe collection, the solids, the blenders, the batiks, juvenile, etc. like a store would??? Never mind all those precut layer cakes...I'm fortunate to have some room, but I'm blending a quilt store close-out with my hoard, and getting overwhelmed.
Conversely, I also enjoy going through and seeing what I can make with what I have. I bought some nice soap earlier in the year which came wrapped in a nice paper and a gold ribbon. I saved both the paper and the gold ribbon and I used the ribbon today for the apron I made. The neck ribbon was from a Christmas gift (PJs that were folded and also wrapped in a white ribbon). Instead of throwing these things away, I kept them and used them for a nice project :)
I thought that until I was given the complete stash from a friend's mother when she passed away. There was so much it was overwhelming. I gave half of it to charity and I still feel overwhelmed. Sent 3 boxes of fabric to my grandson's mother. Getting ready to share fabric with her again. Watching this video again as a refresher on folding as my fabrics are out of control again. (I was given more fabric). I've been making pieced backs to use up more of it rather than buying backing. I'm going to pull out all of my oldest fabrics and make dog blankets. Just Get It Done Quilts has a great video on "after quilts".
6:06 Fat Eighth ( 9 in x 22 in) 9:33 Fat Quarter (18 in x 22 in) 12:15 Half Yard (18 in x 44 in) 14:22 Full Yard ( 36 in x 44 in) So you can skip around if you need to.
This is MASSIVELY helpful!!! Packing to move house and it's a "bigger than Ben Hur" kinda job. I have been dreading packing up all my fabric ... and then I jumped on the KonMari bandwagon ... and now I see this. Oh relief!! It's not going to be as awful as I thought it would be. Thank you!!!
Luubeaar, just an FYI...when we moved (cross county) I went to a local vacuum store and asked for vacuum cleaner boxes. They’re long, narrow and a good width. They worked out excellent! If you stand them on end, you can stack your fabric like you’re books. I cut out a piece cardboard the width and depth of the box and used that as a template to fold my fabric so it fit in the box. After we moved it was a matter of taking out of the box and stacking on the shelf. What else was nice is the boxes were ‘clean’ on the inside. Good luck!
Well I know what I am doing today. Over the years and there have been many; I purchased remnants and fabric because it was on sale/clear out or it is pretty. I have 4 totes full of material and have to dig through each to find what I may want. Nice project for a cold day.
Thank you! My fabric stash was beginning to swallow all my home office space. There’s hope! I found your video helpful and friendly. Marie’s book was a little overwhelming and I only bought it to learn THIS specific fabric-folding information. Blessings! Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Mammographer and author of Lab Results: Life Lessons from our best friends (our dogs)🌻
I really liked this video. I keep my fabric in several different places due to sizes. Will try this method to see if all of my fabric will fit into my fabric cabinet.
Thank you for sharing. I am applying this method to my dresser drawers now....what a difference. Looking forward to "attacking" my fabric. Have a great day!
The dollar tree has awesome cloth baskets. I have a lot of my fabrics that are less than a yard stored in them. When storing mine I always trim up my fabric before I store it.
Such a great idea. I’ll be out of action sewing-wise for a while, so properly organising my huge stash this way will keep me sane and inspired while I’m in recovery. Thanks so much. From Australia
I love this idea! It feels like I buy fabric and then can’t find it because it’s hidden under other fabric. Plus, I already have a bunch of bins similar to these, so no extra shopping. Thank you!
I like those Target bins, I have some for other things. However, for my fabrics, I would like a cover. So I might get the shoe size clear view bins at target.
Just found this and what a great idea it is. and i will be doing it soon. ty very much. I too will be at least 134 before i use up all the fabric that i have.
Since I prefer to have a lid on my storage, I use archival photo boxes to store my FQ's and half-yards. I can often catch them on sale at Michaels at $2.50 each, and trust them much more than cardboard shoe boxes.
I stumbled upon your video, stephanie, when I was watching quilting videos and recognized you!. A big hello from a fellow augustana college graduate (class of 06)!
Interesting concept that could be expanded to flannel fabric! Just figuring out how to store the bins since I use my grandmother’s pantry hutch ( over 100 yrs old) which has deep and high shelves.hmmm 🤔. Thank you for sharing this method.
I have a really nice solid wood CD holder. Of course no one uses CDs any more. But the cubbies for the CDs are perfect size for fat quarters. It holds over 300 CDs. I have no idea how many fat quarters it’s going to hold because I’ve barely filled a quarter of the cubbies. And I have a lot of fat quarters! But I’m going to start using this folding method.
I have an over-the-door clear plastic shoe caddy to hold my supplies. Each see-through pocket holds a different type of item (i.e. scissors, needles, pins, magnets, thread, etc.). I call it my "store". Easy to see just what you have.
Do you have folding suggestions for fleece and silky apparel fabric (thick/bulky and slippery)? I just watched the season on Netflix. Clothing and books have been organized so far. 🤗
I love seeing the fold so you know what fabric you have; that said, I don't think Marie Kondo invented folding fabric in this way. Quilt stores and quilt fabric vendors have used this "vertical method" for years before Marie Kondo became a trend.
Love this tutorial! Use Marie's method for clothing, why did I never think to use it for my fabric? So clever. Do you have suggestions for folding larger pieces of fabric? I have a decent amount of 2 to 5 yard pieces of fabric and want to fold them to take up less room.
When I am cutting larger cuts at the shop, I always fold them so they fit the same dimensions as the one-yard cuts, that way they stack nice because they are all the same length and height, only the width changes. You could also get a bigger basket for larger cuts, like ones you intent to use for backing and keep those separate with a larger fold
Great video, and timely for me as I really need to work on tidying up my stash. The trend for the past few years has been to do scrap quilts, which of course means you can't ever throw out any fabric. Ever. Leaving lots of smaller bits. My bits runneth over. My question is, if you have lots of one color (say, blue), do you put all of those together in one box, or make multiple boxes with some blue in each? Thank you for sharing this video.
Hi -- great video! My eyes are wandering behind you to that awesome home dec fabric! The one that's to our right, your left with the pink-ish flower bursts and leaves of some sort leaning up against the cupboard! Would you share what that is?!!! Thank you :)
Loved this video. I must go and find some of these as I’m moving house and want to get my fabric looking great. I didn’t notice your eyebrows - but thicker brows are now in fashion and pencil thin are out! lol Best not to take things too seriously.
I m in LOVE with your 1 yard cut bucket of Tula and Kaffe. Do you sell a fat quarter bundle of all of them in your online store. I would love to get them. And if not, do you have a list of the names so we can get them. Love them together for a quilt!!! Love your videos, thank you for the joy and inspiration.
Very helpful info. I use this method for clothing also. Never thought about applying it to fabric. D’oh! In your personal stash, do you keep any odd sized or oddly shaped scraps? I do appliqué. if I cut a strip off a fat quarter to cut my appliqué pieces (so I don’t have an oddly shaped piece- I think I will be able to throw away any unused part of the strip) I don’t want to throw away the rest of the fat quarter even tho it is no longer an actual fat and won’t fold to the same size as the others in the bin. Just curious. Thanks.
Mary Tillman: like you, I too cut off the odd-chunks and keep the larger small pieces. I have a square plastic bin like she uses here that sits on my cutting/work table. I fold the pieces as neatly as possible into small square (like her fat 8's) and put them into that bin. It's the first place I look when I need an odd piece (like for a fidget pad or pillow). It's the best I could figure out for those "too small to keep, too big to throw away" pieces. I hope this helps you too!
I do EPP & applique, so I save everything larger than a postage stamp. I trim the "tails" off the oddly shaped scraps, then store them in the flat square boxes designed for scrapbooking paper. They hold a surprising amount of fabric, latch closed, and they stack easily. They come in colors or frosted clear; I sort my scraps into the color-coordinating boxes so if (for example) I need green scraps, I can just grab the green box and go. Costco sells sets of them for a fraction of the cost of a single at the big box craft stores.
If there is a "square-able" piece leftover, I will sometimes square it up and then fold it and store it on edge. More often than not though, I have regretted squaring scraps because when doing applique (especially 3-D applique) I am always looking for odd bits for flower centers, tree branches, bird houses...
Thank you everyone for your responses. It’s just nice to know what other people do. My daughter, the doctor, (sorry I just love saying that) who is a junior quilter and will inherit all my stuff, would throw away everything after she finished a project. She has no idea how valuable those little scraps might be when you are trying to finish something at midnight or how emotionally attached you get to some fabrics. Oh well. She will learn.
@@marytillman372 Your "at midnight" comment made me chuckle! There is quilt designer on RUclips (Man Sewing) whose mom used to own a fabric store (that's how he was introduced to quilting) who used to joke that someday he would open an "All Night Fabric Shop" because of all the people who needed to finish things at midnight. I used to tease him that if he *really* wanted to make a fortune, he should make it mobile - or at least have an old Woodie (he's a surfer, so I thought it was appropriate) with drawers that pulled out of the back like the old bakery trucks. That way, people could SOS their needs, and he could just show up outside their door and they could shop in their sweats or PJ's. I still think it's a bloody brilliant idea!
Maybe I am old, but have been doing this for years....and if you are a neat person, you don't have clutter or clothes that don't fit or you don't like hanging around....My mother taught all six of us how to do this back in the sixties... I guess what goes around, comes around....
I a question about fabric fading. I know old and antique fabrics fade in the light and sunlight is a total no-no. But was wondering if the new fabrics have the fading problem when stored in lighted areas? Thanks.
They definitely fade if they are in direct sunlight. But if they are in a room where there is light, but not direct sun, you should be fine as long as you don’t leave it sit for a decade without use.
I'd love to know how you store the larger cut pieces. For example, if I have a half yard of fabric and I've cut a piece that I needed and it is now neither a half yard or a fat quarter. Could be just a matter of labeling but wanted to know what you would do in that instance.
I worry about storing it in the open like that. It seems to me the edges may fade. I've had fading INSIDE a closed plastic drawer on a couple of pieces of fabric.
For goodness sake, get a grip and stop all this ‘advice’ and criticism and comments on her makeup style. Leave her alone. I didn’t even notice anything amiss. She looks good, she sounds good, her video is relaxing to watch and informative. STOP THERE
If someone is focusing on the appearance of the speaker instead of what is spoken, maybe they should tune in to another video.
The first thing I saw was the red/pink eyeshadow and perhaps overpainted eyebrows (those may be her real ones, though) and it’s distracting. She would do well to have a makeup person show her how to make the best of her beauty. A lot of RUclipsrs do that. This is a great video otherwise and I wish her every success!
I’m a former TV producer so I really notice things like makeup, lighting, etc.
I can't count how many times I've watched this specific video to help organize my very small sewing room...lol... I absolutely LOVE how much better this method has my fabric organization. Thank you so much for sharing! 💜 Happy Sewing! 💜
I’ve watched it a lot too despite the red eyeshadow
I re-did my fabric stash last year,and i have a lot of it,as i worked in a quilt store for 10 years and before that i was always buying as i sewed a lot back then.I ended up going to the thrift store and buying used metal file cabinets,got 3 ,4 drawer ones for under 30.00,all in good condition and clean.Everyone stores everything on their computers now so no need for the file cabinets.Their loss,my gain.I already had my fabric wrapped on comic book boards,now most of it lives in those file cabinets.It's neat and orderly,color coded and out of the light and dust,so a winner no matter how you look at it.
Your idea is good as well,as long as it's not out in bright light.
Davis Kathi 7n
Different continent, same idea. I got one of those hanging file racks, and my fabrics are stored hanging from the file folder edges. So per folder, there can be two big pieces of fabric, one per edge. Or, when the pieces are smaller, I fold them less wide, and coordinate them on the edges in how they fit.
Now that the out of light was mentioned, I guess, I will build a box around the steel frame.
I worked at Jo Ann Fabrics, so now I have a “fabric and craft store in my craft room ;)
I'm not worried about storing it so much as sorting it. Sounds like we have a shared history :-) so I'd like to ask do you sort strictly by color, or do you separate the Kaffe collection, the solids, the blenders, the batiks, juvenile, etc. like a store would??? Never mind all those precut layer cakes...I'm fortunate to have some room, but I'm blending a quilt store close-out with my hoard, and getting overwhelmed.
Touching all your fabrics is therapeutic. AND it helps to see again what’s in your stash!
Point of order. You can NEVER have too much fabric 😊😊😊😊😊😊 mind you, I will be 134 before I've used up my stash.
Conversely, I also enjoy going through and seeing what I can make with what I have. I bought some nice soap earlier in the year which came wrapped in a nice paper and a gold ribbon. I saved both the paper and the gold ribbon and I used the ribbon today for the apron I made. The neck ribbon was from a Christmas gift (PJs that were folded and also wrapped in a white ribbon). Instead of throwing these things away, I kept them and used them for a nice project :)
Lord child I know what ya mean, they keep bringing out such gorgeous colors!!
I thought that until I was given the complete stash from a friend's mother when she passed away. There was so much it was overwhelming. I gave half of it to charity and I still feel overwhelmed. Sent 3 boxes of fabric to my grandson's mother. Getting ready to share fabric with her again. Watching this video again as a refresher on folding as my fabrics are out of control again. (I was given more fabric). I've been making pieced backs to use up more of it rather than buying backing. I'm going to pull out all of my oldest fabrics and make dog blankets.
Just Get It Done Quilts has a great video on "after quilts".
You are so right, that 1-yard tub brings sooooo much joy! Just gorgeous!!
6:06 Fat Eighth ( 9 in x 22 in)
9:33 Fat Quarter (18 in x 22 in)
12:15 Half Yard (18 in x 44 in)
14:22 Full Yard ( 36 in x 44 in)
So you can skip around if you need to.
Thank you
jjbing3 -thank you because she took WAY too long to get to the point.
Lifesaver, my dear ♥️
You're the real MVP.
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This is MASSIVELY helpful!!! Packing to move house and it's a "bigger than Ben Hur" kinda job. I have been dreading packing up all my fabric ... and then I jumped on the KonMari bandwagon ... and now I see this. Oh relief!! It's not going to be as awful as I thought it would be. Thank you!!!
Glad it is helpful for you!
Luubeaar, just an FYI...when we moved (cross county) I went to a local vacuum store and asked for vacuum cleaner boxes. They’re long, narrow and a good width. They worked out excellent! If you stand them on end, you can stack your fabric like you’re books. I cut out a piece cardboard the width and depth of the box and used that as a template to fold my fabric so it fit in the box. After we moved it was a matter of taking out of the box and stacking on the shelf. What else was nice is the boxes were ‘clean’ on the inside. Good luck!
After three years I’m still unpacking.
OMG! I’m having so much fun organizing and folding. Thanks for this video.
Well I know what I am doing today. Over the years and there have been many; I purchased remnants and fabric because it was on sale/clear out or it is pretty. I have 4 totes full of material and have to dig through each to find what I may want. Nice project for a cold day.
Glad I could give you a fun project. So much fun to play with fabric all day!
Thank you! My fabric stash was beginning to swallow all my home office space. There’s hope!
I found your video helpful and friendly. Marie’s book was a little overwhelming and I only bought it to learn THIS specific fabric-folding information.
Blessings!
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
(Mammographer and author of Lab Results: Life Lessons from our best friends (our dogs)🌻
Glad the video helped!
I really liked this video. I keep my fabric in several different places due to sizes. Will try this method to see if all of my fabric will fit into my fabric cabinet.
I hope this helps!
Thank you for sharing. I am applying this method to my dresser drawers now....what a difference. Looking forward to "attacking" my fabric. Have a great day!
Love it!
You have inspired me to do this to all my material in my sewing room.
The dollar tree has awesome cloth baskets. I have a lot of my fabrics that are less than a yard stored in them. When storing mine I always trim up my fabric before I store it.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow what a great way to refold my fabric that’s so easy too …, thanks for sharing .. ❤can’t wait to get started over the weekend …
Such a great idea. I’ll be out of action sewing-wise for a while, so properly organising my huge stash this way will keep me sane and inspired while I’m in recovery. Thanks so much. From Australia
You’re welcome! Hope you can get back to sewing soon!
I'm out of commission also, I had major surgery a week ago. I want to sew desperately! I hope you're feeling better soon.
I love this idea! It feels like I buy fabric and then can’t find it because it’s hidden under other fabric. Plus, I already have a bunch of bins similar to these, so no extra shopping. Thank you!
I like those Target bins, I have some for other things. However, for my fabrics, I would like a cover. So I might get the shoe size clear view bins at target.
Great idea!
I have also read the book, given to me by my daughter, and my closets, dresser drawers, and my stash of fabric are all folded and very neatly stored.
Love this idea. Can't wait to get everything organized and all in one place.
I always puzzled how to fold up the little squares of fabric. This looks so easy now. Thank you.
Glad you found it useful!
You inspired me! What a difference to my fabric mess. AND PERMISSION TO GET RID OF TINY PIECES AND LESS THAN LOVED FABRIC. THX.
Thank you! Great suggestions and instructions!
You’re welcome.
Fabric Sparks Joy!!!
That it does!
Thanks for another great video! I picked up my baskets yesterday and will start folding today.
Glad you liked it! Happy organizing.
Drooling over all your Tula Pink and Kaffe. Two of my favourites.
Such a great tip! Thanks for sharing ❤👍
You’re welcome!
Just found this and what a great idea it is. and i will be doing it soon. ty very much. I too will be at least 134 before i use up all the fabric that i have.
The dollar store has baskets like this.
I cut up the clothes also.
I've been waiting for a KonMari method for my stash!!!!!
Glad I could help!
Excellent. I have been setting up a new sewing room. Great job
Thanks! Hope this helps.
This has been so useful. Thank you so much.
You’re welcome!
your video for folding konmari is the absolute best thank you
Thanks!
Lovely idea for scraps. Now to apply that to my larger bolts. Looking for a good way to organize my fabrics but I mostly have larger yardage.
We have another video on how I fold my larger cuts!
Appreciate this. A great to be able to see your stash to pull fabrics for a project.
Great video. Let me go get some bins and get to cutting!
Have fun organizing!
Since I prefer to have a lid on my storage, I use archival photo boxes to store my FQ's and half-yards. I can often catch them on sale at Michaels at $2.50 each, and trust them much more than cardboard shoe boxes.
I stumbled upon your video, stephanie, when I was watching quilting videos and recognized you!. A big hello from a fellow augustana college graduate (class of 06)!
Thank you so much for sharing your Kondo method for fabric!!!
You’re welcome!
Folding fabric is the best!
Interesting concept that could be expanded to flannel fabric! Just figuring out how to store the bins since I use my grandmother’s pantry hutch ( over 100 yrs old) which has deep and high shelves.hmmm 🤔. Thank you for sharing this method.
Great tutorial! Lots of great info. Thank you,
20 BINS!! That means I have Hopes! LOL Thank-U I will Definitely ty this. TFS :O)
Thanks for sharing
Oh this is really useful, thank you!
Glad you like it!
Thank you this was wonderful!
Thank you for sharing this! You are correct, fabric does bring joy! Love the colorful bins.
Fabric brings so much joy! And you’re welcome.
I’ve added this video to the Konmari craft support group Facebook group.
Folding so that things sit on there edge is what prevents wrinkling. the weight of stacking on top of each other, say T-shirts, is what wrinkles.
Love your videos! Thank you so much for sharing. 😊🤗
Love this!
I have a really nice solid wood CD holder. Of course no one uses CDs any more. But the cubbies for the CDs are perfect size for fat quarters. It holds over 300 CDs. I have no idea how many fat quarters it’s going to hold because I’ve barely filled a quarter of the cubbies. And I have a lot of fat quarters! But I’m going to start using this folding method.
Great video!!!
Good ideas. Thanks.
You are so welcome!
you go girl! I love my sewing room. 🥰 I love seeing all of my fabrics. Great video 💙🐝💙
Thank you...I'm starting to get organized!
I am new to your channel, and I am so happy I found you! 🤗🙏
Glad you like the videos!
This is awesome, great solution to keep your fabric looking neat. Thank you for the video!
Your stash is so beautiful, all the colors and patterns I love! I almost getting envy 😊
Thanks 😊
Brilliant! This makes so much sense.
folding starts at 6:53.
Fantastic tutorial thank you!!
This is my favorite find for a method so far. Excited to find bins like this (hopefully at the dollar store) and try this!
Update: I went to one Dollar store near me and then strait to Target! I love these bins and your folding methods!
Love this! Now help me KonMari my quilting/sewing tools!
Lol! I stick my cutting tools in round vases. That way they are all contained and I can access them easily.
Deborah Keener my handiest way is to use an office supply caddy that rotates.
Remember use subcategories or even sub subcategories. I had 7 unpickers, I chose the 3 I loved! Check out the Konmari craft support group on Facebook
I have an over-the-door clear plastic shoe caddy to hold my supplies. Each see-through pocket holds a different type of item (i.e. scissors, needles, pins, magnets, thread, etc.). I call it my "store". Easy to see just what you have.
I love to pet my fabric, too! ☺️
Boa tarde , nossa quantos tecidos lindos .Obrigado pelas dicas de como organizar e guardar .Um abraço.
Do you have folding suggestions for fleece and silky apparel fabric (thick/bulky and slippery)? I just watched the season on Netflix. Clothing and books have been organized so far. 🤗
A part of me thinks wrapping these fabrics in a pre-cut piece of cardboard would be a little easier :)
You must be a virgo! Organized by size, fold and color:)
Fantastic
Great job. Thank you
hola!! comence a hacerlo hace unos días y la verdad da placer no ver solo bolsas amontonadas sin saber que hay dentro de ellas!!!
I love seeing the fold so you know what fabric you have; that said, I don't think Marie Kondo invented folding fabric in this way. Quilt stores and quilt fabric vendors have used this "vertical method" for years before Marie Kondo became a trend.
Thanks for sharing these tips. I am interested to know the dimensions of the baskets you use for the folded fabrics. ❤
Love this tutorial! Use Marie's method for clothing, why did I never think to use it for my fabric? So clever.
Do you have suggestions for folding larger pieces of fabric? I have a decent amount of 2 to 5 yard pieces of fabric and want to fold them to take up less room.
When I am cutting larger cuts at the shop, I always fold them so they fit the same dimensions as the one-yard cuts, that way they stack nice because they are all the same length and height, only the width changes. You could also get a bigger basket for larger cuts, like ones you intent to use for backing and keep those separate with a larger fold
@@QuiltAddictsAnonymous Thank you for your reply. Ready to get fabric all organized.
Fabric stores may give you the empty cardboard bolts that their fabric comes on; I store yardage this way, like the fabric stores do.
Quilt Addicts Anonymous i too used to live there. Stay war
Love this and have done it in my sewing room. Best idea for seeing everything you have
Glad you like it!
Great video, and timely for me as I really need to work on tidying up my stash. The trend for the past few years has been to do scrap quilts, which of course means you can't ever throw out any fabric. Ever. Leaving lots of smaller bits. My bits runneth over. My question is, if you have lots of one color (say, blue), do you put all of those together in one box, or make multiple boxes with some blue in each? Thank you for sharing this video.
I separate my colors. That way I have easy access and I'm not hunting in every bin. One color per basket should work well.
How do you keep dust out? I would stack up and down on wall i think.
I love your video. How would you fold a regular eighth yard? Thank you for sharing.
Thank you!
I,m from Rock Island,I’ll sorry it,s cold there!
Yes, it is cold!
Great tutorial! Where do you put browns and grays?
I put those at the end of the rainbow
Hi -- great video! My eyes are wandering behind you to that awesome home dec fabric! The one that's to our right, your left with the pink-ish flower bursts and leaves of some sort leaning up against the cupboard! Would you share what that is?!!! Thank you :)
Loved this video. I must go and find some of these as I’m moving house and want to get my fabric looking great. I didn’t notice your eyebrows - but thicker brows are now in fashion and pencil thin are out! lol Best not to take things too seriously.
Good luck organizing your fabric and getting moved!
I m in LOVE with your 1 yard cut bucket of Tula and Kaffe. Do you sell a fat quarter bundle of all of them in your online store. I would love to get them. And if not, do you have a list of the names so we can get them. Love them together for a quilt!!! Love your videos, thank you for the joy and inspiration.
You can see all of our in-stock Tula at this link: shop.quiltaddictsanonymous.com/product-category/tula-pink/?orderby=date
Glad you enjoy the videos!
I’m folding all of my fabrics this way. Thank you so much. Will these bins fit on an Ilea Billy bookcase?
You can place the shelves where you want, so yes.
I've had my fabric like this for years but use the ikea wire drawer system. It has 3 wire baskets that I can fit 2 rows across.
Nice, I am sure that looks pretty!
I've been folding my fabric like this for decades, just thought every fabric junkie did to keep order among chaos..evidently not.
Very helpful info. I use this method for clothing also. Never thought about applying it to fabric. D’oh!
In your personal stash, do you keep any odd sized or oddly shaped scraps? I do appliqué. if I cut a strip off a fat quarter to cut my appliqué pieces (so I don’t have an oddly shaped piece- I think I will be able to throw away any unused part of the strip) I don’t want to throw away the rest of the fat quarter even tho it is no longer an actual fat and won’t fold to the same size as the others in the bin. Just curious. Thanks.
Mary Tillman: like you, I too cut off the odd-chunks and keep the larger small pieces. I have a square plastic bin like she uses here that sits on my cutting/work table. I fold the pieces as neatly as possible into small square (like her fat 8's) and put them into that bin. It's the first place I look when I need an odd piece (like for a fidget pad or pillow). It's the best I could figure out for those "too small to keep, too big to throw away" pieces. I hope this helps you too!
I do EPP & applique, so I save everything larger than a postage stamp. I trim the "tails" off the oddly shaped scraps, then store them in the flat square boxes designed for scrapbooking paper. They hold a surprising amount of fabric, latch closed, and they stack easily. They come in colors or frosted clear; I sort my scraps into the color-coordinating boxes so if (for example) I need green scraps, I can just grab the green box and go. Costco sells sets of them for a fraction of the cost of a single at the big box craft stores.
If there is a "square-able" piece leftover, I will sometimes square it up and then fold it and store it on edge. More often than not though, I have regretted squaring scraps because when doing applique (especially 3-D applique) I am always looking for odd bits for flower centers, tree branches, bird houses...
Thank you everyone for your responses. It’s just nice to know what other people do. My daughter, the doctor, (sorry I just love saying that) who is a junior quilter and will inherit all my stuff, would throw away everything after she finished a project. She has no idea how valuable those little scraps might be when you are trying to finish something at midnight or how emotionally attached you get to some fabrics. Oh well. She will learn.
@@marytillman372 Your "at midnight" comment made me chuckle!
There is quilt designer on RUclips (Man Sewing) whose mom used to own a fabric store (that's how he was introduced to quilting) who used to joke that someday he would open an "All Night Fabric Shop" because of all the people who needed to finish things at midnight.
I used to tease him that if he *really* wanted to make a fortune, he should make it mobile - or at least have an old Woodie (he's a surfer, so I thought it was appropriate) with drawers that pulled out of the back like the old bakery trucks. That way, people could SOS their needs, and he could just show up outside their door and they could shop in their sweats or PJ's.
I still think it's a bloody brilliant idea!
Love the idea. What do you do when you have fat quarter bundles. Do you separate them by color? Thanks
Bundles I keep together so I can use them all in one quilt later.
Separate by colors, but I take it a step further to do by color solids, color prints. I keep smaller pieces on top and "scraps" in bins by color
Maybe I am old, but have been doing this for years....and if you are a neat person, you don't have clutter or clothes that don't fit or you don't like hanging around....My mother taught all six of us how to do this back in the sixties... I guess what goes around, comes around....
I a question about fabric fading. I know old and antique fabrics fade in the light and sunlight is a total no-no. But was wondering if the new fabrics have the fading problem when stored in lighted areas? Thanks.
They definitely fade if they are in direct sunlight. But if they are in a room where there is light, but not direct sun, you should be fine as long as you don’t leave it sit for a decade without use.
Everything fades
What if your fabric is wider than 42" - 44"?
Some people choose to hang larger cuts, like wide backings, or knits.
I'd love to know how you store the larger cut pieces. For example, if I have a half yard of fabric and I've cut a piece that I needed and it is now neither a half yard or a fat quarter. Could be just a matter of labeling but wanted to know what you would do in that instance.
Where is the target link. Great info. Thanks.
It is in the video description.
I would like to know the dimensions of the two white plastic boxes (Target), that you showed in your video. Thanks.
I have a question: I have one, two and three yard cuts. Do you keep, in your personal stash, the largest piece at one yard?
I have the same question ! And does this mean for the top of a quilt that these are theonly size I need?
I worry about storing it in the open like that. It seems to me the edges may fade. I've had fading INSIDE a closed plastic drawer on a couple of pieces of fabric.
Could you show us your fabric storage? I just moved and am not organized at all sharing with my business office in a smaill room..