Happy Friday! It’s Bev from Flamingo Toes here with more ideas for tidying your craft space! Today I’ve gathered up all my favorite Fabric Storage Organization Ideas – everything for ways to store fabric on bolts to keeping your scraps tidy. I am working on this in my studio right now and I have used several of these tips!
We’d love to hear your tips at the end of the post too – do you use any of these? Or maybe you have some great ideas to share too!
This is a great tip on how to fold your fabric for storage on bolts – and how to fit it to the size of your shelves!
If you don’t have room for bookshelves – filing cabinets are a great option! Here’s a tutorial on filing your fabric!
Hanging your fabric is a great option if you have closet space in your craft room!
Another option for closet space is to store your fabric in hanging shoe storage! I love how it’s sorted by color too – makes it so easy to see what you have!
Build a Cubby Fabric Storage shelf with this awesome tutorial! If Ikea or walmart cubby storage won’t work in your space – build your own!
Small plastic drawers would work great for fat quarters or small amounts of fabric.
Another great option for fat quarters is hanging shoe storage! Just tuck those fat quarters in the slots to see what you have – easy peasy!
Small plastic tubs would be another great option for small amounts of fabric or fat quarters. Easy to see your colors as well!
If you have some favorite fabrics I love this method of rolling them up, labeling and storing them in a pretty old drawer.
This giant jar is such a great spot for little fabric scraps!! So cute and colorful.
And here’s a little sewing eye candy for you! We can all dream right?! This studio from Olabelhe is gorgeous.
Fabric in a pretty little scalloped bookshelf? Yes please!
Is vintage floral storage your thing? This is so pretty and I love how she stored the bolts on the lower shelves!
Tons of storage, gorgeous room and organized storage spaces? Yes please!
This fabric storage cabinet is gorgeous! I love that it has shelving and drawer storage.
So we’d love to know – how do you store your fabric?
Make sure you come back next week for more craft room organization ideas!
hello happy new year to you by georgina of réunion island is very beautiful your organization bye
I am currently trying the trouser hanger method & it is working well. I won’t have room for all my fabric so I’ll probably use bins, which is not my favorite method. I was using 2 large plastic drawer systems but they were damaged in my recent move& only one is salvageable. I am considering having a shelf added on one side of my small sewing room for the bins. Thank you for your post.
Heyo! I just recently reorganized everything and came up with a simple solution (though I admit I am uncertain of its long-term archivalness). I have a few clear storage tubs sorted by fabric type (cotton, felt, canvas, specialty). I folded everything to the width of my ruler (6”) and placed each color group in a large freezer bag. This way I need only remove the colors I am interested in without messing up other ones. You can see a photo here: https://www.thecrafties.com/2017/12/organization-overhaul/
But if I had more space, and a much less dusty house, I would love to do something like in these examples! They are so pretty!!
I have open shelves in my sewing closet with the fabrics stacked by color. Only problem is, if I pull one out, they all come with it! I like the idea of smaller storage containers and storing the fabric vertical. If it would just fold itself I would try all of these options! ;-P
I heard you should insert your ruler, like an 6×18, just above the piece of fabric you want to pull out. Insert ruler, lift up on ruler end to raise up the stack of fabric, pull out fabric, then lower the ruler and pull out ruler. The fabric above the ruler stays in tact and will not unfold. Insert fabric in same manner.
I purchased comic book cardboards. They are the exact width of 44/45 inch fabric folded in half again lengthwise. I roll up my fabric on those, paperclip the fabric to the cardboard along with a slip notating the yardage.
Easy to see, easy to pull out from a shelf and put back in. Love it!
I love how all of these look, but I’m that person who buys fabric and uses it right away. So my “stash” is more like a giant tub of scraps. lol
Would you like my scraps? I’ll send them to you for free!!
Finding a good way to keep all the scraps is so difficult, isn’t it? The best I could do was last time I got the urge to try to”organize” them, I cut them all into the same size piece and sewed them into a long strip with the hopes to sew all the strips together (and get rid of the tiny scraps from those). Sewing the strips together hasn’t happened yet, so I have giant rolls of the scraps sewn together haha!
UGH!!!!! I have no real organizational methods for my fabric…yet. Will try the hanging method; love that idea. However, I’m in a slump; I want to get a new sewing table and remove the old one. However…..money issue. And I don’t have the desire to make one of my own. And…the new sewing table will free up floor space. Well…at least I could organize my fabric!!
I found a homemade one at goodwill for twenty four dollars.
Wonderful ideas. I use a file folder as measure to fold my fabric. Thank you for the great inspiration.
Ida.
I’m doing well if I’m able to sort by fabric type, color within those groups is too much to ask and there is no closet space to give up, even if I do like that idea.
However, scraps, I do have a solution that seems to work well. You know those big vinyl bags that new bedding comes in? I keep two full of scraps so they are easy to see what’s in there. One is for really small scraps that I either mix with stuffing or donate to the kid’s section at the library. (Ask first, but mine loves them)The second is full of larger more usable scraps that I can dig through or see through the vinyl to pick and choose as needed.
VERY inspiring!
Rebecca, I would love to have your scraps!
Just saying—although I’m sure you’ve given them away by now.
Happy sewing!
Leware
I too have alot of fabric in my room. I have looked at so many ideas and there are some really creative ways to store your fabric. I make minky activity blankets and or quillows. Since fleece is bulky, I am using pants hangers with the multiple prongs. I put the top piece, batting, backing together. I put this in an inexpensive garment bag to keep the dust off. Each bag is labeled and put in my closet in my craft room. This is working for me anyway.
I have a concern regarding storage of fabric in the open where light can lighten or bleach out the folded edges!
Does this not happen to others especially when you have a large stash!
Any orheres out there with this concern?
I definitely saw the fading at the folds on fabric that was left out in my sewing room. I now have all my fabric folded and stacked on shelves behind doors. I still can get the rush of seeing all that fabric neatly stacked every time I open those cupboard doors.
Yes those are all great ideas. Would be nice if everyone could have a large “she” shed area space for our crafting. A she cave . Happy crafting everyone. Blessings to all.
My husband is making me a “Stitch & B*tch” out in out barn with ten 36”wide base cabinets and 2 36”wide vertical drawers! I can’t wait to fill it up! Some great ideas here.