{happy friday!} who’s ready for the weekend? i know i am!!
Was organization one of your New Years resolutions? well, today i’m going to share a few ideas for Organizing and Storing your fabric collection….
This is how i store mine:
in my craft room i hung a curtain rod {from Ikea} on the wall and then used curtain rings {you know, the circles with little clips on them} to hang my fabric. be sure to secure your curtain rod in studs because fabric can be heavy! {this rod may or may not have fallen down in a big heap of colorful threads…. yes, we learned the hard way lol}
for smaller pieces of fabric and a couple bolts of fabric, davis made the white piece from an old book shelf we found for free on the side of the road. yeah, you can’t beat FREE!!
Davis used particle board to make additional cubbies in different sizes. {which is soooo convenient for different sizes of scraps} and then painted it white.
More Storage Solutions
mini bolts made from Comic Book boards from Smashed Peas and Carrots
hanging fabric storage from Ish and Chi
adorable Pink dress posted on Flickr by Cindy {k}
another hanging fabric idea from Little Green Notebook
check out more craft supply organization ideas on my Creative Spaces board on Pinterest here.
so how do you store your fabric??
Lovely! Your craft room looks a bit like a fabric store:) And an awesome one at that!
Thank you, Linda! Organizing my fabric stash is high on my list of things to get done in January. I’m off to a good start, but these ideas will help me tremendously!
I have a very small craft room (7.5ft X 8.5ft), without a real closet. Hanging storage would be nice, but it’s not possible in my room. I have a cabinet that I store all my craft supplies in. I store my fabric the same was Smashed Peas and Carrots does. I got the idea from her, and ran with it. I also went crazy with my scrap pile. I cut a comic board in half, and made mini-mini bolts for my scraps. Now they are in bins on one shelf instead of all over on six shelves. Once I got my scraps all contained, I realized how many scraps I really have! Let the scrapbusting projects begin! Thanks for sharing the other ideas.
such great ideas. I love how your wall looks so pretty with the hanging fabric on it! I must try this!
I love this. So organized. In addition, it creates it’s own art on display. Completely random, I received an email thins morning about IKEA having a BYOF (Bring your own friend) day tomorrow. Giveaways, free breakfast, and other fun things. Maybe I will head over to win the curtain rod…among other things. Even the kids love it, so the fact that dad’s at station won’t be too big of a deal. (hmm…devising a plan) Thanks for the awesome tip!
This makes we want to go out and but pretty fabric to store. Oh dear.
Cool ideas. I copied/modified an idea I saw on pinterest to do mine. We are military so we move every couple years so a “permanent” solution like this wouldn’t work for us. I saw an idea that used foam core board cut into “mini-bolts” and then fabric was wrapped around the bolts. I couldn’t justifying that much foam core – so I cut up a bunch of boxes that we had in the garage and then I store them in plastic tubs – grouped by color/types of fabric.
So pretty! And functional, what could be better? :) An organized space seems way more encouraging to craft than a cluttered one where I don’t even want to dig into my supplies :( Great job with the bookcase, wouldn’t have guessed you customized a (free) one! Awesome!
What a great idea! I can’t wait to have a space big enough to use this idea!
Thanks so much! I’m starting to plan my crafting space and fabric storage is a BIG need!
Great ideas. I have them in rubber bins in my craft closet but then I forget what I have and buy more of the same. I need to get mine cleaned out.
Beautiful! Love these ideas. Can’t wait to hang my fabrics – color coordinated, of course.
Wow — I love this so much! What a great storage option! :-) Thanks for sharing!
This is BRILLIANT! We’re moving next month into a new home and I’ll actually have a studio, so this would be great to double as storage AND a creative valance! :-)
Oh! Great ideas!!!!
I absolutely love your storage!! You have such fantastic ideas! Thank you so much for sharing your awesomeness with us!
aw, thank you, Jaimi! i’m so glad you stopped by and said hi :)
happy crafting,
linda
I NEVER even thought of hanging my fabric for storage. You are a genius!!!! Not only a super organizational tip, but a colorful way to do it!
thank you, Toodie! :) i’m so glad you stopped by!
happy crafting,
linda
This is really lovely! I so needed this post!! I have 4 of those bookcases and will be moving in a few weeks and I want cubbies so bad but there really expensive! So you’re helping me out big time because I’m going to use two for my crafts and two for my girls toys!! I got a couple questions tho did you cut end of the book case off or did you just move the board down more? For the shelves did your hubby make them removable or did he nail em/screw them in? Now I’m excited!! And I can’t wait to get organized using what we have and making it better! Thank you again! I love your blog! :)
You are so creative! I love the bookshelf turned sideways, what a great idea! Fantastic job.
I featured the bookshelf on my blog today, feel free to stop by & check it out :)
http://artsyfartsymama.blogspot.com/2012/02/pinteresting-features-n-shtuff-22.html