Zig Zag

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OKnana can I come play too please? I keep mine on shelves covered with canvas, but they aer no where near as neat as yours  I do tidy them , but it doesn't take long for them to bcome thoroughly dishevelled again  Jacqui
Rather Light a candle than complain about the darkness
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A Dandy
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I have 4 large Sauder cabinets in my sewing studio which hold my quilting fabric pieces from 1 yard on up. I wind the pieces (folded to abt 11" wide) from 1 yd to 3 yards on pieces of cardboard about 12"-13" long cut off the folding cardboard pieces that fabric is kept on at JoAnn's and other fabric stores. Those pieces work out to be the flap on the cardboards in the JoAnn stores here my area in Oregon. The remainder after cutting off both flaps I use for fabric pieces over 3 yds. I can remove some some of the shelves in my cabinets which allows me to the wind the larger fabric pieces the same width they came off the bolt.The cardboard bolts come in 2 or three lengths.
Storing fabric this way I don't make a mess taking a couple of pieces out to audition and I am more apt to put them back right away because they arn't all unfloded and sloppy.
My fat quarters I have started storing in cardboard magazine holders which I lay on their back and stack the 11" long folded FQ by color or fabric type or pattern. The magazine holders can hold about 60-70 pieces of fabric this way, especially the ones which are 4 1/2 " wide. The narrower ones will hold less because more folds mean thicker FQs.
I keep small scraps in plastic zip lock bags by color or subject which I will soon be putting into slots cut in to boards which will be mounted on my walls as shelves. Thay way they will do double duty.
Right now I still have dressers and plastic and canvas boxes and bins for half yard pieces and some projects until I come up with something better.
Peggy
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