How To Organize Your Fabric | Organize Fabric Like A Pro!

[Music] hi everyone this is Cheryl and welcome to my sewing room I'm going to talk about how you organize your fabric now I'm a fabrica holic and I know there's many of you out there who are also and you know who you are you've got fabric under every bed stuffed in every closet in your pantry in the dining room behind the sofa under the sofa in the garage in cardboard boxes in plastic tubs and they're probably in places you've even forgot about or maybe you've also got tons of scraps that you wish you could organize so I'm going to show you some simple storage solutions now it's going to take some time on your part you might want to make it a family project and have everybody chip in and help cuz it'll speed the process up it might even take just a little bit of money on your part it's gonna take more labor time than money though so let's get started 4 large pieces of fabric you're going to need cardboard in pieces that are eight-and-a-half inches by 11 inches you're also going to need the little snappy hair clips both of these items you can get off of amazon.com and the links to these two items are listed below your YouTube screen when you buy your fabric your selvage edges are usually folded together so I suggest you leave it like that and then fold it again in half so bring the folded edge to the selvage edge then take your cardboard place it down here fold a piece over and begin to fold it and you just keep going I've put as many as four yards on one of these fold the end over take your little clip and then clip it on to the fabric I use a lot of bookcases to store my fabric on I've got them in a lot of different places and I do it by color so once you get it wrapped onto the cardboard you just stick it on to your shelf I like to do a lot of quilting and often I have squares leftover from a variety of projects what I do with them is I store them together so this these are five and a half inch squares I take a little sandwich bag mark five and a half inches on it and then open it up and insert the squares inside and then I'll just kind of close it a little bit and then I will take it in store it in tubs like this these little shoebox-sized so in here I've got four to five and a half inch squares I put it in there and I just keep it on a shelf and I have them all the way from two-and-a-half inch up to eight and a half inches if you've got fat quarters and you want to get them organized you can make these little fat quarter cubes like this and you can store all the same color in them and these are really easy to make if you are interested in making these little fat quarter storage cubes then click on the link in the upper right hand corner I have hundreds of fat quarters that I bought over the years and I keep mine in these shoe boxes like this and I find them very useful I try to put all the same color in the each container it's sorted I can keep it very very organized not only do I fat quarters in them but if I've got pieces of fabric that are not big enough to put on the cardboard I just fold them up and insert them in with my fat quarters if I cut strips of fabric for binding to use on quilts and potholders etc and I have any left over I will also put them in a container marked binding strips so when I need one or two strips I'll just go through there and see if I can find what I need if you have a lot of little small pieces they're not long enough to be binding or really big enough to put in with your fat quarter pile I like to quilt so I don't want it to go to waste I'm going to cut it into squares that I can use for a future project so you can stack two or three different pieces at a time I want to cut these into two and a half inch wide pieces and then I'm going to turn it and align this other end up a little bit here and then cut it two and a half inches wide I'm gonna cut this end straight and now I'm just gonna put the two and a half inch line on the edge over here and just go down this strip cutting a bunch of two and a half inch squares and you can get going pretty fast doing this I like to cut fabric so it's something I enjoy doing I know not everybody does but this is another solution and then you can just get a bag market two and a half inch squares and put all of the squares in a container I want to thank my daughter Maria and my son-in-law Jaime for all their help in spending hours and full all of this fabric together for me and they've got it organized and so well put I just am so thrilled with everything that they've done for beginners sewing tutorials play this video until a green screen appears and then click on the links ok everybody here's your pillows Maria make sure your thumb is up Jamie the arrows pointing to your left everybody ready if you like this video then click on thumbs up and then click on share to share this video with your friends and if you haven't subscribed yet then click on that red subscribe button down there in the lower right hand corner of your screen click on 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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Tue May 12 2020