Wednesday, August 28, 2013

My Fabric Stash

A few people have been blogging about the organization of their stashes, and showed photo's of what they did and how they did it.  I was curious.  Could I improve the system I had?  It's something that is constantly evolving, so shouldn't the organization evolve, too?
When my daughter was born, all my fabric went into bins and were shoved into her closet until I could figure out something better. But, every day during nap time I would be inspired to do something and couldn't because it was all in her room.  Sooo...


I decided to pull it all out and display it; in my front room (which also happens to be my sewing room). We have a couple of black shelving units that, pre-children, were filled with photo albums and decorative knick-knacks. Children arrived and it became filled with toy baskets and children's books. So, on the very top shelf, where little hands can't quite reach yet, I folded and stacked my stash by color and genre.


This first shelf includes multi-colored and whites as well as 1930's repro's, orientals, halloween, christmas, batiks (a very small and measly amount), and westerns (already thinking of a bunch of ideas for those!).


The second shelf includes my rainbow of fabrics.  I only have 2 orange pieces in my stash, and I snagged both of those from my mom's stash. I have a lot more brown's and yellows than I would have thought, and not as many blues as I would have thought.  It has been interesting to see all of it laid out like this.  I think it will be easier for me to use up, though, which was one of my goals for myself this year.

Admittedly, this isn't quite all of it.  I still have a bin with leftovers from quilts I have finished, and another bin filled with fabric sets I plan to turn into quilts eventually. I also have a couple of projects boxes that are in the works, even if that only means the fabric has been sorted and the pattern selected. Even still, it's a pretty sad little stash.  Maybe some day I will accumulate more.  For now, I am hoping I can get some smaller projects done with everything out here for me to work on.

I am linking up with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday. This is definitely a work in progress, and hopefully some of that progress will be getting these beauties into some quilts. :)

8 comments:

  1. Holy Smokes! I'm in awe of your stash : ) Saw you over at Freshly Pieced. Hello!

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    1. Thank you. It feels so small to me, but lots of good things to use, so that's good. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. Always love to hear from people!

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  2. I love ALL stashes! Thanks for sharing

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  3. Looks like a good sized stash to me! Its so fun to see them all arranged by color, isn't it? Mine is mostly arranged by size. And grouped together by project into those jumbo ziplock bags. Luckily I have a giant armoire that no longer holds a TV to hide it all in as it is not as pretty as yours.

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    1. Thank you so much. I love reading the comments! I have a lot of projects boxed up, too, so I know what you mean. It's a lot of collections like Honey, Honey and Marmalade. Hopefully I can get all of them into a project soon. Thanks for leaving the comment! Love to hear from people.

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  4. Your stash looks beautiful and it's so easy to see what you have available. I hope the light doesn't fade the exposed edges over time - but maybe you have a fast turnover of fabrics.

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    1. I hadn't even thought of the light damaging the fabrics. I will have to keep that in mind as time goes by. If they aren't begin used, I might need to come up with a new plan. Thanks so much for stopping by!

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