Dollar Tree Quilting Fabric Organization

welcome back to the lucy bird youtube channel today i'm going to show you a simple organizing tool using something from the dollar tree this dollar tree hack is going to help you turn your pile of yardage into this it's going to help all of your organization dreams come true let's get started for this hack you're going to need a piece of foam board now they sell these at places like walmart office max office depot but you can snag it for a buck at the dollar tree so i have one piece of foam board i need a rotary cutter i'm using an olfa 60 millimeter so it's just a little bit bigger of a blade and i'll tell you too this is one of my duller blades so if you use this for this project don't start out with your sharpest blade because it does dull it pretty quick and i'm using one of my quilting rulers so what i'm going to do i'm going to get my foam board laid out and i'm going to start by just dividing this up into six inch strips so i'm just lining up at my six inch mark along the edge firmly holding here slicing it with my rotary cutter okay so from my one piece of foam board i was able to get four six inch strips from it and then i have this little guy that's left over he's not quite six he's maybe five and three quarters but i'm not a perfectionist so i will be using that so from these i'm going to sub cut these now into six by nine inch rectangles so again using my ruler i'm gonna get that into a six by nine piece running out of space here because i have the fabric there six by nine piece this is all that's left over this is trash now repeat that with all of your pieces of foam board so you're going to end up getting 2 4 6 8 10 pieces from one dollar now i always buy tula yardage every time she comes out with a new line it is too good to pass up i always know it's going to be gone from the quilt stores quickly so i like to buy her fabric even if i don't have a plan for it and half yard or one yard cuts you saw how disheveled my bin was i needed a little bit of organization so using these foam pieces i just take my yard i fold it up to about nine inches you don't need to be perfect here fold that down and i just now roll it on there so i'm making my own little mini bolt of fabric with this i just grab a pin and i stick it right to the foam board so repeat for all of your fabrics that you have and ta-da you're gonna love it let me know if you try this hack if you do find me on instagram tag the lucy bird i'd love to see what you do

Channel: The Lucy Bird

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Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021