How-To: Organize Fabric in a Filing Cabinet

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April 30th, 2012 6

Locked in an epic battle with your fabric stash? Check out this brilliant tutorial for filing your fabric from Karen at Sew Many Ways. Storing fabric in a filing cabinet means avoiding wrinkles, seeing your whole stash at a glance, and protecting cloth from fading and dust. I’m a total organization junky, but this sure blows my multi-box method out of the water!
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6 thoughts on “How-To: Organize Fabric in a Filing Cabinet”

Cynthia says:

April 30th, 2012 at 3:41 pm

Unfortunately, I have WAY too much fabric to do this Not a space saver . . . .

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Louise says:

May 1st, 2012 at 12:56 pm

This is such an excellent idea!

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Andrea says:

May 3rd, 2012 at 11:13 am

I’m a little all over the place with my fabric. I have some on tier pants hangers and large yardage folded in bags. I’m about half organized. i try to separate what’s been washed and what needs to be washed so I can grab and sew.

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