Learn how to fold fabric for storage. This is part of a 30 day series on organizing your sewing room. Keeping your fabric all in order can be not so easy.
Learning how to fold fabric for storage is one of those things that I know, do and then all of a sudden I don’t do and can’t remember.
Then the whole room looks like a bomb went off and there is nothing but trouble in the sewing room.
How to Fold Fabric for Storage~
- find something that you can wrap your fabric around. This can be a piece of cardboard from a box you have cut down. You can purchase little boards that are made just for folding, use comic book sleeve stabilizer pieces. Whatever you find will work. Just needs to be somewhat stiff so the fabric holds the shape of the stiff board and isn’t floppy and a mess
- iron your fabric before you begin. You need the fabric nice and flat with no creases. Those will cause you problems when folding to a new shape or size.
- try to keep your raw edges tucked inside. This will help control long strings that will drive you crazy. Believe me! Fold a small edge under to keep those edges away from rubbing on other things.
- try a few different ways of rolling or folding the fabric on the boards. You might run into a process that works really well for you- don’t go with what others tell you to do- try a few options and go with the one that works the best. Keep consistent after you figure it out though. Your shelves will look nicer.
Get your fabric folded! Learn how to fold a fat quarter
Print off some folded fabric bundle wraps
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This is part of the 30 days of Sewing Room Organizing. Go here for more hints, tips and inspiration.
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Great tips! I’ve got a Craft Gossip post scheduled for later today that features your tutorial:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/?p=86051
–Anne
I have been wrapping my fabric around cardboard for a long time and it works really well. I have two sizes: regular for a metre or more and a smaller one for fat quarters etc.
I also slip elastic (old hair bands work great) around the fabric to keep everything in place. Pinning with quilting pins will also work but there is a danger of picking yourself.
In the past I have used cardboard for larger pieces and comic book card stock for smaller pieces. Lately I’ve experimented wit large pool noodles. I cut it slightly longer than the width of my fabric, then cut a slit along the middle, insert the end of my fabric and gently, but firmly roll it. When done I just use masking tape to secure the loose end in place.
Usually I can figure out an acronym, but IAQ leave me cold. Someone please tell me its meaning!
It’s International Association of Quilters – but I recently changed the name to Patchworkers Plus – It’s my online quilt group!! https://patchworkposse.com/plus for more info.