| Nancy's Tips & Tricks |
| Sorting and Storing Fabric Organization is the key to having time to quilt. Why waste time looking for certain fabrics when you can develop a system for storing them? It's certainly easier if you have lots of shelves but that's not absolutely necessary. You can use clearly marked boxes, see-thru plastic containers or even clear plastic bags. Organize your fabrics so you can find them with minimal time and effort. I have my fabrics sorted and stored several different ways. 1. Fabric is manufactured in groupings or collections. Each collection has between 6 and 50 fabrics. For the first 6 to 8 months I keep the whole collection together because it makes it easier to find the companion fabrics to coordinate with the "theme" fabric. 2. After 8 months or so, I store them by color. Storing your fabric by color is a great time saver and it also teaches you to see the differences in each color. For instance, there are blues, blue/greens and blue/violets. When you have them stored in stacks, you can recognize the subtle differences. 3. Specialty fabrics are stored together. For example, plaids and stripes, polka dots, Christmas and children fabrics are stored on their own shelves. 4. Country fabrics are stored by themselves. So, when I'm working on country looking quilts, I can immediately find what I need. 5. Hand dyed fabrics are also kept separate. More information on this subject can be found in my Rotary Magic book. |
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