fabric storage

I like to keep my fabric in fan folds. That way it's easy to cut off just the bit I want without having to unfold the entire length and without having to flop a little "bolt" (which is what you get when you use those gadgets we're looking at right now) around and around to get enough off of it for cutting. Works for me, but of course everyone is different.

Howdy!

Looks lovely, Rusty.

Go> >> Has anyone bought these and uses them?

Howdy rat back acha!! Nowhere exotic this year(g)... Gonna have to settle for the Alex/Ricky/Libby show next week :)

I looked at the website where those "fabric board" things were sold. Looks like a lot of buck and no bang......and wasted space as everyone else has pointed out.

Did anyone see "The Living with Ed" show on HGTV, Monday night, where he toured the Ultimate Green Home? That woman's quilting room was to die for. All her fabric was stored in clear plastic drawers, folded and sorted to look like rainbow gradations, solid from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. The wall was angled so it got no direct light but her sewing/work table faced a floor to ceiling window looking out on the court yard and pool. I wish there was a picture of that somewhere to see it again. Talk about organized stash!! She had a few dozen jars all with sorted buttons, shelves of thread in rainbow array, every tool and gadget hung or displayed in a beautifully artistic way. The room it's self was a piece of art.

The only thing I wondered about; No where in that room was a WIP or a quilt or in the entire tour of the house did you see a quilt or any type of quilting anything; not a lap quilt, bed quilt, table runner, pillow, wall hanging, not even a pot holder......nuthin, no quilting did I see anywhere. Maybe she was afraid to muss up the "professionally designed by the architect", quilt studio.

Val

Howdy!

Yeah, we saw that. Had to laugh, it's "green", a lot of green, bushels & baskets & dump trucks full of green--- American dollars.

"The article makes particular note of the Beitcher house, a lovely and laughably unaffordable home in the leafy La Mesa Drive neighborhood of upper Santa Monica (average home price, per Zillow: $2,152 per square foot! And the Beitcher house is 4,000 square feet. You do the math). The Beitcher family, though, have built an awfully amazing residence. Sustainable to the core. Of course it has solar paneling, bamboo flooring (and a bamboo ceiling), and a state of the art energy-efficient heating/cooling system. Indeed, it is a ³zero energy house,² consuming no more energy than it produces. But it also has (drumroll?) denim walls. Yup, denim walls! Remnants from an old jeans factory! Whoa."

R/Sandy --- I really liked her big table/cutt> I looked at the website where those "fabric board" things were sold. Looks

Looks pricy-I'd have to pay more than $200 to supply my stash. And it would take up more room, besides. I like how I've arranged my stash. I've got pics on my Webshots. The only thing I changed recently was adding room-darkening roller shades to the front of the stash shelving to prevent my fabric from fading. Oh, and more fabric (but that goes without saying). :)

Valerie in FL

I want to trade quilt studios with you.....

I have been looking, trying to find pictures of the quilt studio in that house...but I guess you had to see the tour on TV. DARN Although I have seen some pretty awesome studio pictures from you folks on RCTQ

That is a nice room. I really like the color and the white laminate makes for a clean look. That would be a really pleasant space.

Taria

Pat > Very nice place, Valerie. It is a calm and tidy room. I like your

I see that Pat has adopted my new mantra: "Must use the fabric I already own." I seem to have also been bitten by the "need chocolate" bug. ( N.B. I prefer my chocolate with a coffee chaser ).

- dlm. in central MA 'hand quilter; chocolate and coffee taster, extraordinaire'

You could always do what Linda Franz does..... sweeten coffee with chocolate milk.

I will stick with chocolate, since coffee and I don't get along at all well.

Pati, in Phx

- dlm. wrote:

I got my cutting table from Joann's. I don't know if they still carry it or not.

Valerie in FL

I SAW THAT! it had to be propaganda!! NO quilter i know will be THAT neat!! it had to be a plot against us!!! LOL and the bolt thingies? too much money for me! i'd rather do the foldy thing around the ruler...saves space. and more money for fabric! amy

Makes you wonder. I got the book "Creating your Perfect Quilting Space, Sewing-room makeovers for any space and any budget" by Lois L Hallock, for my birthday from my buddies in the KKQs. The smallest makeover would do me, however, there was one where a husband and wife couple both quilted and had turned their double garage into a quilt studio to die for. I started looking at our living room and DH started to get worried.:))) Elly