Sort and Store Your Fabric with Clever Storage Options
Keep Your Fabric Neat, Organized, and Easy to Find!
Are you looking for ideas for storing your fabric? The right solutions for your space will keep your work area tidy and your fabric organized while saving you time when looking for a particular piece of fabric.
There are many storage options for keeping fabric neat, accessible, and ready to use – and they don’t have to be overly expensive. The Editors from American Patchwork & Quilting wrote an excellent article with 41 creative fabric storage ideas. The options include boxes, shelves, racks, bins, and more for storing various quantities of fabric, whether yardage or precuts.
We pulled out a few of their ideas to showcase here for storing the other types of fabric you most likely have on hand. For example, a stand-up paper towel holder is a good way to keep bindings neat until you’re ready to use them. You’ll find several styles to choose from here.
Basic serving trays work nicely for transporting works-in-progress. Use them to corral cut pieces and half-done blocks. Trays with straight sides can be stacked to save space. There’s a good selection of trays to choose from here.
Pants hangers are great for storing quilt tops ready to be quilted. The backing can be clipped together with the top while the binding can be looped over the hanger so everything is together and ready to go. The clip-style hangers also work nicely for storing yardage. This pack of 10 hangers is a good choice.
Or go with the style shown below with two or more rails. You may prefer them for storing the quilt top and backing together plus they’ll save space when storing several quilt tops. These hangers should work nicely.
Binders with plastic page protectors are a good choice for storing fabric panels. Fold the panels so they’re easily identifiable and slip one into each page protector. You’ll find a good selection of binders and page protectors here.
Clear plastic paint-pail liners work nicely for collecting scraps. Put one color in each liner and stack them to save space. You’ll find several to choose from here.
Shoe organizers are great for storing fabric and other supplies. They keep rolls of batting, fusible web, and freezer paper from rolling around and easy to find. There are many styles, shapes, and sizes of shoe organizers available so look for one that works nicely in your space. There’s a good selection to choose from here.
An over-the-door shoe caddy allows you to put often-overlooked space to use for storing precuts and smaller cuts of yardage. There are many to choose from here.
One that caught our eye is sturdy with deep and roomy pockets to hold a lot of fabric and other supplies. Remove the over-door-hooks to hang it on a wall with command hooks or use screw-in wall hooks to hold more weight. You’ll find several shoe caddy colors to choose from here.
There are many more fabric storage ideas to explore in American Patchwork & Quilting’s article. You’ll find them all at the link below.
