Reorganizing My Fabric Stash // The Big Reveal! 

Have you tried the wayback machine? Here is the link to the fabric swatch printable. web.archive.org/web/20120907072053/nested.typepad.com/files/swatch-notebook.pdf

I don't know how I missed these two sewing room organization videos almost a year ago, but I find them very satisfying! I'm a quilter and have my larger pieces of fabric wrapped on small bolts, too. As you mentioned, I have lots of smaller pieces, fat quarters and half yards that get folded into squares and stored upright in plastic bins.

Girl, you're amazing! I'm so happy that I found your channel because as a fat woman I was really tired of never finding anyone out there with the same body type as me dressing the way you do! Now I really want to sew many many amazing looks TT___________TT Thank you

Re: stuffed animals - “I don’t want to move them into the garage. That would just be mean.” - I knew there was a reason I subscribed so quickly 😉. Fantastic room clean-up video! So satisfying 😌

Congratulations bolting your fabrics has inspired me, I didn’t realize it could be so space saving!

Wow, that is looking amazing! Such a lot of work, but so rewarding. I'm working on my sewing room, and I'm stealing your "mini-bolts" idea. In exchange, here's my tip for books: to keep from the temptation to "double-deep" your bookshelves with random stuff you want to get out of your hands, bring the spines of all the books to be even with the front edge of the shelf - no matter how narrow the books are. Yes, you're losing storage space, but only use that back part for "deep storage" (like super-old journals or notebooks), and only if you add a label to the shelf-edge so you know what's back there and can find it again.

My stash is tiny compared to yours, with only a handful of ikea bins full of wrapped cardboards, 1 full bin of usable scraps, 1 small basket of cabbage/coleslaw and one overflowing bin of old clothes waiting to be cut down for fabric. But I did the same process a few weeks back, so I remember how time-consuming it was. But the results speak for themselves and now I know exactly what I have. So much better than overflowing tote bags sitting in a corner of the room, looking ugly.

Watching this has made me want to completely re-do the organization of my studio! I love this! Great video and thank you for sharing!

Congratulations 🎉 Reorganizing an entire room is a feat. You're will be so happy to be in the room. Each time you walk in you will smile at the work you have done. You have inspired me to try my work room.

I have been re doing my sewing room since September! My daughter got her own apartment and my son got her room so my sewing room could be expanded. It is so nice. Even before it was done my daughter said she was going to spend time down here and bother me when I was sewing. I haven't been able to sew really because of my cluttered and crowded set up, but now it is so inspirational and cozy.I had the same problem with my table too. I had it all cleaned off then while I was working it got filled up again. another day of putting items away from the do it later containers and I am golden.

I need to sort out my fabric. I will deffo be using your cardboard folding idea. I have been putting it off for months. Maybe I need to film it like you did to keep me on track and accountable.

I have an idea: You could put the rippons in big drawers and the side you like to see to the top. So you could open the drawer and see the side you want to see. :)

This looks amazing! Great job sweetie! As for your card stock to organize your swatches, if you have a blank copy, see if Office Depot or Staples can make a bunch of copies on cardstock for you.

Every time you pan past the faux fur, my brain goes, "big dog"

I have been recreating my sewing room that was remade back into a bedroom for my daughter when she moved in with us to go back to college (after she had finished and moved back out). It has been sometimes difficult work like putting together 4 cubby sets and setting them up, but it has been rewarding.

It was very interesting to see how the workplace of a creative person is organized. Thank you !

Bins! Fabric bins are so wonderful! I have so much smaller yardage that gets lost in big tubs, I am going to look for some bins to sub-sort.

I definitely need to do something with my fabric stash but, until I watched this video, I had no idea what. Now I have some ideas but need to play around with your idea of folding the fabric and bolt sizes and re-think where I'm storing the fabric. Thanks.

Congrats on your newly organized space!!! You did a great job!! Just watched part one and two as I was organizing my own sewing space :). Glad to have found your channel.

i love the concept of sorted bins, and being able to see where everything goes immediately

Love this!! The more I see of people using those cubby shelves the more I like them. My sewing room is a hodgepodge of old furniture. The cutting table is an old ikea change table. It works and the height isn’t bad. My biggest problem is that I have my numerous crafts plus sewing in my room. As well as a few stashes, I inherited some extra. Not to mention the bolts of fleece I got at a thrift shop. Ok maybe I just have too much stuff. I do have what I call small pockets of organization some day I might get the whole thing done!!

I noticed in the thumbnail that you got some bigger matching boxes for the bottom shelves of your large unit. Love the addition. Great video again. My sewing room is now also my office so it’s looking quite different.

Ikea has doors for Kallax. It might help with the wig or more messy cubbies that aren't as good for bins.

You know what might help? Magazine storage boxes, IKEA has them. They may hold boning rolls. But they line up neatly and label.

You know that feeling of peace and joy you get when finishing a big organization project. Yeah, your video was absolutely that sort of rush of joy and peace. I am so proud of you for all your hard work. Years ago I took all of my yarn and organized it by needle size and color. It took hours, but by golly it has been helpful even to this day when I have the urge to start a random knitting project and especially now when I can't go pet new yarn in the store.

Ohhh what a fantastic job you've done!! Well worth all the hard work you put into it! It'll save you so much time and frustration when you want to find any items!! I desperately need some shelving and better storage for my own sewing/ crafting room. It's a goal for next year to get it all sorted out. Thankyou for taking us with you through the transformation!!

Your room is looking great! As for printing on cardstock, I don't know what kind of printer you have but I print and copy on cardstock on my cheap canon printer in my home all the time without any problem. I just change the type of paper I am using in the settings.

I’ve used hangars and 5 tierd pants hangars and that has worked pretty well but the can still be a little hard to see, so I do like your cardboard wrapping idea. I have 3 2x4 kallax bookcases that are getting out of control. So thank you for your ideas. I have definitely gotten some good ideas for my sewing room.

Great job! You accomplished a lot with a modest budget. It really looks great.

You did such a fabulous job I was inspired and reorganized my sewing space too...it took 3 days to switch my fabric to the hutch and the trims/ribbons/gadgets to the chest of drawers!

This vlog is so inspirational. My sewing space is a corner of our living room and currently not really a very workable space. I just hope I can make it work on a very limited budget. You gave me a couple of ideas that I hope I can implement when we have a little bit more money to work with.

I'm going to be moving again soon and I think when I'm unpacking I'm going to keep your layout in mind :) also, definitely going to try go make little bolts of all my fabric!!! So pretty ❤

I looks AMAZING! Great job!!

My sewing room is 10x10 and needs to share space with the cat's needs. In a month my husband will have a new job and be working from home and we were thinking if I could clear off my sewing table he could set up in there and be out of the way from me and the kids during the day. So I think I need some cubbies in the closet to store things in and we need to find a new home for the bassinet... I've got a lot of stuff to organize because I knit, spin, and sew and have begun to weave as well.

Looks great!

It's such a transformation!! I did a whole big reorganization a few months ago, and I like the system I came up with for where everything should go, but my problem is definitely keeping it that way!

Don’t know if you have seen he newest snack zippy bags. They are narrower across the top & longer in length. They are great for filling with small shit. I fill them, label at the top, & file them in rows. This allows Me to thumb through them & easily find what I’m looking for.

I watched this (and the first one) while filling out my notion database of my fabric... an organization weekend will be in my future. I’ve got some kallax units too. I’m going to copy your bolt method.

Thanks!

I started organizing my craft room slash library this past summer. It's taking forever, so thanks for the encouragement. I love the bins. I use the round metal rimmed paper tags with the little brass pins.

AAAHHHHH!!!! It looks FABULOUS!!!! I love your purple hat, it looks like Blossom (does that show date me?). Great job! The biggest part I'm taking away is that I want to be like you and just get on with it. I've already watched this video three times. I wonder how many more viewings we'll go through before my sewing room is clean. Yay, I have inspiration/sketch books, too. Doesn't the wall of fabric look wonderful!! I still say the world is in need of some affordable (smaller) proper pattern cabinets. Loved this! Stay well.

How about making a Victorian(?) Crazy quilt with your scraps of velvet ? Also maybe subdivide some of the bins under/in your table using ziplock bags. The bags would still be in the bins. I would also suggest maybe larger plastic bins for that costume show project that is in corner on floor under the table. It may be more aesthetically pleasing. And for on top of your tables (I couldn't really see them all), crystal clear plastic bins and pretty glass jars or vases to put often used items. I'm thinking the more things that can be contained the easier it is categorize in your mind. For example I have a scissor drawer and a marker drawer. Loved watching your process. Love your room! Oh, and I may have an oops, on rewatching I see I might have misunderstood what you said at end of video about the other organizing. Just glean whatever you can from my ramblings. Organized rooms organize my brain. 😁😊

It looks so good now! It really gives a boost to keep going when you start putting things neatly away again :D This might even spur me on to get back to reorganizing my sh*t and getting rid of a lot of things I don't need...

This is so very satisfying. I've been making a bit more of an effort to sew with fabric that I already have, and to actually make things with the scraps I have. The using scraps is going to get harder as I sew more everyday garments. At the moment a lot of what I have to put to use is either quilting cotton or something very close to that. It is so much easier to make little zip pouches or small patchwork things with that kind of fabric. Goodness knows what, if anything, I'll be able to make from stretch fabric or just other woven fabrics with more drape and less structure. I have a pretty small stash of fabric - although I am a pretty slow sewist so I do have to keep reminding myself that I have about a years worth of fabric, rather that thinking I only have 2 cubes worth of fabric. I'm also looking to find a better system for all of the odds and ends - currently they are all in another cube with zip look baggies of things like elastic, or bits of hardware, or a bag full of ribbon etc. I think I need to introduce some more structure to the space I keep them in - I'm considering adding some drawers as it looks like that worked really well here.

Currently I have all of my stashed fabrics in bins (since I don't have shelving units). The idea to put your fabrics on bolts is a great idea, and I might give it a try. I've been trying to switch to clear-sided bins, so I can at least see what is in each bin; and label the bins; but put the fabric on bolts would certainly make it easier to find a certain fabric instead of having to go digging through each bin every time. sigh --Lyssa WA, USA

If the table does not have a name, it can be "Moon". [darksideofthe] (Stuffed toys:A friend put a 6inch deep shelf 12 inches down from the ceiling. Thumb tacked a ribbon to the wall to tie around the animal's waist keeping it on the shelf. This made a creeeeeeeepy row of animals staring down at the room. It did not, however, creep out the child who lives there...)

Thank you for this video!

My big challenge, after a reorganisation is to keep it tidy! Your room looks fabulous.

Girl, my broke ass is STILL using the photo copies I made of my friend's copy of "Corsets & Crinolines!" like 20+ years ago. :) Also, I have my patterns stashed in dropfiles in a 2-drawer file cabinet; just got it a few months ago, my patterns are SO easy to find now!

I’ve printed on card stock with my home printer. Just put in a few sheets at a time.

I'm not sure if none has suggested it, but a solution for a space for your stuffies would be to buy a small hammock or they even sort of make them for that purpose, and hang it up in a nice unused corner.

You can copy on card stock. No problem

It came out wonderful! Specific 2 Ur needs. Ciao.

Hi, it turned out beautifully, I love all the different fabrics so pretty, I'm lazy all my fabrics are in a trunk.

It looks so good! Meanwhile I look at the mess and just am filled with despair. Maybe one day...

Tie a little strip of the type of fabric on the handle of your grey drawers. No label needed

I don’t have a sewing space per day so my fabric is kind of in random spaces where there is room. I have some of those tall rolls of fabric that I got that’s dead stock and haven’t had a chance to un roll and measure because I can’t decide if I would want to re roll it or fold it or do this and make kind of a bolt situation. This does make me with I had like cubby storage though cause that just look very nice.

I really like the kallax type system for storing fabric bolts, but I want a taller unit along the bottom to hold full-sized bolts, since I often end up buying in bulk. Perhaps a set of narrow bookcases could accomplish this. 🤔

"Things that I should probably get rid of, but didn't" - story of my life

We just moved into a new house and I just cannot wait to get my sewing nook unpacked and organized. It's happening tonight and I'm itching to get sewing again! What's the fabric covering your table? Thinking of mcgyvering something with an old kitchen table in my own sewing room.

the non liked skirt could be made into a spring top, ruffled style?

I had a thought that might be helpful, I'll let you know if it comes back XD

go to liquor stores- they usually have lots of cardboard....

If you try the way back machine you may be able to get the original back

So, I found your channel a bit ago and I am in love. You are so talented and beautiful! My style of sewing is more on the Disney princess side of things. I was wondering where you got your ‘princess fabrics’ and if you have any tips and tricks for working with them. I really want to get more into sewing and become a non gender conforming prince!

Question for you! What is costume college? I’m actually in the LA area and I’ve heard a few tubers talk about it but I have no idea how to find Information on it.

I have a printer than can print on cardstock. if you have a single copy left, we can re-create this document, I could print off some pages and mail them to you if you would like.

Hi , First in commenting

web.archive.org/web/20120907072053/nested.typepad.com/files/swatch-notebook.pdf Here is the link to download the swatch sheet. I love archive.org!! And now I have a better way to keep track of my fabric!

I still don’t understand why you’re keeping all the scraps. They take up so much space. What are you going to use them for?

make a blue linen summer skirt and top @ the midevil ufo

Put the books in the smaller cubbies-

I'm enjoying your videos even though I don't sew. Question: what is a ufo? (other than the alleged alien type) :)

Very impresive. I'm surprised that you din't add another shelf into the cubbies for trims so you could get two layers of trims in one cubby without the need to put them in drawers, instead of having the trims along the bottoms of two cubbies with big gaps (stuffed with other stuff?) above them. A suggestion for the book cubbies so you don't "temporarily" stand stuff on the spaces left in front of the books - put a false back in the cubby so that the books all sit almost to the front edge fo the cubby. My sewing room has an entire wall of bookcases (the start of the fiction sequence - there's nowhere else in the houose they will fit) and I end up having to move things to get to the books because I inevitably stand random stuff in the spaces at the front of the shelves (before reorganization: flic.kr/p/2kgByzA and mid Reorganizaion: flic.kr/p/2kV24EV ). I REALLY need to follow my own suggestion and add false backs to the shelves so the books stand forward and leave no space in front for filling with random cra... stuff.

Is that Izabela’s book I see? Lives about 40 minutes from here

Put the hats out on wig heads on the wall-

i admire the hard work you are doing, however, i am a bit disappointed that you are using the free usps boxes. i don't know if you are a person who sells online and uses those boxes, but my business did. shipping prices keeping going up and unapproved uses of the free boxes are part of the problem (albeit probably a small problem --- just heard your explanation of the po boxes at the end. i can understand your usage of them). what i used was the $1 foam boards from dollar tree that are poster board sized. i cut them to my desired size and got probably 5? out of each one. i cut them to the size of my file cabinet drawers and wrapped my vintage laces around them so they are very easy to see and determine which one i want to use (if i should ever actually get well enough again to craft). just thought i would mention the foam board idea for your own future use and anyone else looking to make their own small "bolts" of fabric. it does look so much neater that way, doesn't it? stuffed animals, tie a ribbon around their necks and hang on a hook above the kallax unit (not so that it looks like they have been "hanged" but that they are just floating on the wall). or maybe put a floating shelf up for them to sit on.

Get rid of those stuffed animals and figures on the sheeeeeeeelf😅😅😅 they add "weight" to the shelf and it looks more overloaded 🥺