If you’ve been following along on Instagram or Periscope, you know that I’m working to reorganize the studio once again. (Does it ever end?) I’m getting my fabric stash wrangled with Polar Notions Fabric Organizers.
These are simply pieces of stiff plastic with a little notch. You fold your fabric from selvedge to selvedge, and fold again. You can fit a whole bolt on the large size, and up to a yard on the smaller ones.
Here’s a little video I made for you!
There are two sizes- Fat Quarter and Original (yard.) The small ones run about $1 each, and the larger ones $1.70. The bigger pack you buy, the lower the unit cost.
Of course, you could cut your own, but lately I realize that in the time I spend to find the right plastic (I wouldn’t use cardboard because there is acid in paper that can damage your fabric) and cut them out, I’m spending a lot of time. So frankly I’m happy buying them (although these were provided for review purposes) and spending more time on getting the job done.
I went from this:
Three Drawers of fabric….
To this:
So tidy!
I have a little more to fold and organize…but I’ve run out of Polar Notions organizers! (One more 10-pack of each should take care of it.)
I’m going to need a few more to wrangle all of my fabric, but it will certainly all fit into two of my organizer drawers! (This was spread out over THREE drawers in my storage area. So that means with my newly-found space I can go fabric shopping, right?
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That’s a cute solution. I’m using comic book cardboard stiffeners for my small fabrics. They are the size of comic books and used by collectors to keep them from slumping in their plastic page protectors. They are acid free and very inexpensive. I think I paid $10 for 100. You can find them on Amazon. Good to be organized.
Diane