My Fabric Stash

I always wonder what other quilters' fabric stashes look like.

I told you that I was on a fabric fast for most of the year 2018. 

I would like to introduce you to my stash.....

In the photo below, the blue circle is my low volume fabric.

If I have half of a yard or more of fabric, 

I wrap it around a "comic cardboard" and put it on the shelf.

It almost looks like miniature bolts of fabric, much easier to see.

You can see my post on the comic cardboards here.

The green circle is my "prints" fabric, 

that are too busy to be devoted to a particular color.

The yellow circle is my blue fabric, 

 the red circle is my pink fabric,

 and the black circle is my yellow and orange fabric.

This shelf is next to the previous one in the closet.

This part of my stash is more interesting than the previous cupboard.

The green circle is the fabric I like to use for borders or quilt backs.

This fabric is also wrapped around the comic cardboards, but it has to be at least a yard long to be on this shelf.

The fabric within the yellow circles and 

green circle is my Lori Holt fabric!

I'm obviously a big fan of Lori's fabric, 

and everything that she does!

I used to buy every single piece of every line, but I have to be selective now because I just wouldn't have room!

The red circle is my Christmas fabric.

I love decorating this cupboard, I actually have two of them.

All my precious sewing things go in this space.

The blue circle is my Aneela Hooey fabric.

I was really disappointed when she stopped designing, 

I loved her style.

The yellow circles are my Bonnie and Camille fabric.

What quilter doesn't have their fabric? Lol!

The blue circle is my Pam Kitty fabric which I absolutely love!

I wish she was still designing fabric too...

All the other little stacks are fat quarters divided by color....

orange, blue, red, yellow, pink and green.

This is my second cupboard of fabric.

The bolts on the middle shelf are there for looks :)

My daughter and I found them (they were wrapped in plastic from the factory) at a garage sale one day.  

There were five and we split them up.

I have plans for them but just have to get a few quilts quilted.

 The blue circles are Heather Ross and Heather Bailey.

I really love those designers.

I tend to like "little girl" prints, 

maybe that's why I love them so much!

The green circle is a little bit of Amy Sinibaldi.

I love her fabric so much, but I can only buy so much...

as it is, I'm going to die before I have the chance to quilt with all this fabric!

The red circle is fat quarters from Amy Butler and various cute little Japanese prints.

This little drawer is full of miscellaneous printed fat quarters.

This drawer is full of some fat quarter bundles and 

dark colored fat quarters.

This basket is full of low volume fat quarters, and black and whites.

This is some of the first fat quarters I ever bought, 

they're 1930's prints.

I used to go to Material Girls quilts in South Jordan, Utah and visit with Nadine, and choose happy little fat quarters.

I have one more box that I forgot to take a photo of, it's a little larger than a shoe box.

It's full of fat quarters that are little children prints.

That's the end of my Fabric Stash, tell me what you think...

Is mine huge, little or an average size for a quilter/sewer.

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Ironing Board Cover tutorial link and Fabric Organizing

The last time I made a new ironing board cover, was over 3 years ago.

I knew that I had some severe water stains on my ironing board cover, but it wasn't until it started to molt, that I couldn't wait any longer...

My son ironed his shirt every morning before he went to work, maybe that's why he moved out, lol!

(just kidding...)

I think the stains are a combination of steam and starch!
The water stains were beginning to discolor my quilt blocks when I pressed them.

I saw that Jennifer Mathis from Ellison Lane Modern sewing and design blog, had a tutorial for a 30 minute ironing board cover.

I pinned it to my Random Tutorials board on Pinterest, you can find it here.

I bought some insulate at JoAnn's, and cut two thicknesses of warm and natural, and sewed them together.

I also bought some home decor fabric by Nate Berkus.

My new ironing board cover even has some nice padding!

I love it :)

Vicki, a fellow quilter at our Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild, told us how she wraps her fabric around comic book boards, and how wonderful it makes her stash look.

I bought this pack at Amazon for $10 and later found cheaper ones at my local comic book store.

This is some of my stash before wrapping them around the boards.

Not too bad, I try to keep the stacks looking nice.

Wow, what a difference!

I love the look of my fabric wrapped around the boards.

One drawback, is that this way of organizing takes up a little more room, and I don't have enough shelving to display my entire stash this way.

For now, it's a start and I arranged most of the fabric shelves with the fabric wrapped around the cardboard.

There are lots of tutorials online, just "google" wrapping quilt fabric around cardboard and you'll find them :)