Re: trying to get organised

Howdy!
Organize: there's *that* word again.
<g>
I call it Separate.
It starts out with color.
The too-many-colors-to-decide fabric goes by theme,
cats, kids, florals on black, Peanuts, collections (just received
the Dorothea's collection from Elm Creek Quilts, Red Rooster--
Fabric Shack is prompt & friendly), metallica.
The Kaffe Fassett group just refuses to be separated by color,
it all stays together
(you know some fabric has a mind of its own!).
Little scraps (4" & less) are in their own little world.
There are a few sorted by project. But, mostly, it's by color.

Go with what works for you, Morag.
If your husband wants to sort by color, give him a box of crayons. <g>

Happy New Year!

Ragmop/Sandy
"Morag in Oxford" <morag.peers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> After the toy explosion that was Christmas in our house my stash has been
> ousted from its home in the cupboard under the stairs when it was
> languishing in two overflowing plastic crates and a few plastic bags to
> make room for wooden airport sets and a sit-on digger.
>
> I have a lovely 4 drawer plastic box-thing in which to store the majority
> of my fabric now and I'm very pleased with it. Unfortunately I can't fit
> *everything* in - certainly not wadding and the largest lengths of fabric.
> But at least it's a start at getting organised.
>
> So with 4 drawers to play with (all the same size) I've organised the
> fabric into similar sizes - top drawer for scraps, second drawer for FQ
> size, next for yard-ish sized bits and the bottom one for larger pieces.
> Hubby took one look and said "I thought you'd have done it by colour".
>
> So how do you all organise? By colour, size or another method?
>
> Morag
>


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