Sewing Fabric Storage ideas to help your home stay organized.
Can be life-saving.
Not only does having a system in place help with clutter.
All things considered, the system also helps you have more time to do the things you love! Such as sewing, creating patterns, or enhancing your design skills. Now, who doesn’t want to do that? All things considered, having systems in place helps you stay on top of things.
As a result that no space is the same and everyone has different tools or budgets to work with. I am going to be sharing articles from other bloggers and then sharing the process that I used for my own space using what I had to use along with purchasing some items at Dollar Tree.
LINKS FROM THE INTERNET FOR SEWING FABRIC STORAGE IDEAS:
At any rate here are some ideas from around the web to get your creative juices flowing.
OPTION NUMBER ONE:
Here is a link from The Scrape Shoppe Blog by Michele McDonald showing 20 Fabric Storage ideas. Everything from using slack hangers to using a curtain rod and hanging shoe fabric storage. This blog post is to inspire you to figure out what can work for your space.
OPTION NUMBER TWO:
Our next blog post for sewing fabric storage ideas comes from The Spruce Crafts. She has some similar ideas as well as different ideas that may work better for your space.
In another case, I will share how I ended up organizing my own fabrics with storage bins, elastics, laundry baskets, and pant hangers I found at the Dollar Store. So let’s get started!
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MY SYSTEM:
All things considered, the first thing you are going to do is get comfy in your living room and find a good movie or tv show that you want to watch.
Afterward, take all your scrap fabric pieces and dump them in the living room or wherever you are and start sorting them into piles according to fabric type.
For this reason here are some of the categories that I chose for my scrap fabric piles. Cotton, sheers, fuzzy & fleece, rayons, wools, shiny fabrics.
PHOTO’S
In any case, the next thing you are going to do is take plastic bins with lids.
I got mine from Dollar Tree. I ended up ironing some of my wrinkly pieces of fabric scraps and then folding them into bundles. Grouping the bins according to the type of fabric.
Furthermore, once all the small fabric scraps are folded and placed in the bins. Coupled with placing the lids on the bins. I then took my labeler and printed labels of the fabric groups. If you don’t have a labeler get creative and use whatever you have available to create labels.
I wanted to store these smaller Dollar Tree bins inside my large Rubbermaid bins. So I started stacking these bins in the larger ones.
Accordingly once the smaller Dollar Tree bins are stacked into the larger Rubber Maid bins. You are going to want to print labels for the outside of the large Rubber Maid Bins. To indicate to you which fabric grouping is being stored in that bin.
IDEAS FOR STORING LARGER PIECES OF FABRIC
Altogether these are just simple ideas I used with what I had available to me. So let me share with you what I came up with.
For larger groupings of fabric such as denim, I used zip-lock bags to group the fabric and then placed the zip-lock bags. Into the Rubber Maid bins around the space of the small bins.
PANT HANGERS FROM THE DOLLARAMA
My next idea was to use some of the closet space in my sewing/crafting/guest room. So I purchased pant hangers where I could drape the fabric.
These hangers were used for lighter, larger bolts of fabric that I will be planning projects on.
LAST IDEA TO STORE FABRIC
Last but not least my last idea was to move a laundry basket that I wasn’t using into the closet area of my sewing/crafting/guest room. Allowing me to group the larger bolts of fabric I have to use for projects.
I did this by using elastics and folding the fabric into rolls and securing them with elastics.
Once you’ve rolled your bolts of fabric place them in the laundry storage bin. This basket will neatly keep your bolts of fabric contained.
I then placed the laundry basket in the closet to help with organization and containing the fabric bolts.
I really hope this blog post inspired you in some way to help you find ways to organize your fabric. Whether scraps or larger bolts.
