Fabric stash: attack of the dustbunnies!
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janestarzAs Alice-in-Wonderland blogged about storing her fabrics yesterday, I wanted to share with you all the way I've stored my fabrics for the past few years.
This is how it usually looks in my atelier. Stuff is stashed in front of the fabric cupboard. I have storage bins, mannequins, a large cardboard box with wood coat hangers, a plastic box with some small inventory items like the embroidered pouches![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
absintheskiss made, and oodles of small items that I really should clear away stacked in front of the cupboard. Some of it has already been taken from that far corner when I took this picture.
Because I had to get my storage bins (I folded and pricetagged the rack yesterday night and my bins were in the far corner), I moved all of this junk to the other side of the room, leaving just a little space to turn around in. I stacked it all in front of the door. Oh yes, don't forget the trusted ironing board...
The complete, and full, cupboard. See, there is a floor under there, and it's ruled by dustbunnies. I clean and vacuum this room a couple of times each year: whenever we go to a faire, and everything is packed and I can actually reach down there.
But down into Stashland we go...
Bottom-right part of the stash. The bottom-most shelf holds the least-used fabrics. Here lies leather, pleather and suede (real and fake), as well as some leftover cotton velvet (at € 15,- per meter you don't toss your scraps!) and some very unused poly-taffeta and poly-satins that just scare me. There's even a bit of silk in there. And I also stash my personal fabrics here, because I never get around to sewing them.
Also: the leather is slowly migrating south. This is what happens when I don't clean the cupboard up periodically.
Right side at eye level: this is where most of my commonly-used fabrics lie. The printed fabrics that just spring out there, of all makes (poly-cotton, brocade, poly-satin brocade...) you name it! The autumny-jersey in green, gold and red (underneath the blue roses fabric) is for some longsleeves for myself. I bought the fabric a year ago.
On top of the cupboard are some bolts, and this is just arranged there because I've bought so much of it. The red bolt is a wool, the patterned things are printed poly-satins (uck), there's a whole role of light-brown cotton velveteen that I don't know what I'll do with, there's silk and poly chiffons, jersey knit and even a whole bolt of black lace...
What the hell do I need all that for? (That's a recurring thought...)
Top-left! On top are again, large bolts of fabric. Another red wool in a slightly different hue as the other, a black-and white rayon I bought off Stoffversandhandel.de I still don't know what to do with because it's so psychedelic, a bolt of blue wool, a printed cotton in snakeskin yellow/camel...
On the shelf beneath that are the Pathfinder fabrics and patterns, bagged and tagged, and the rest is mostly lining and undergarment fabrics. The reds are home-dyed, the whites are mostly cotton drill, linen or even twill. There's also some green stretch cotton in there.
Beneath all that white is my shelf of fake furs. it's often rather expensive, so whenever I find a fake fur that's affordable (€ 5,- or less per meter) I just snap it up. Including that god-awful, long-haired, bright green fur with sparklies in it that's on the bottom there. There's also scraps of fur, since you can still use it to edge something with.
Beneath the furs is a shelf with my wools. These are all thicker wools for coats, or really expensive wools. The blue and off-white and celery came from Reconstructing History.
Underneath that... is a junk-shelf. I don't even know what's up there. I don't think I want to know what is in those bags. I can see one of the bags holds a scrap of jersey I made a summer dress out of... but as for the rest, I can only guess. I think most of the stuff on the right-hand side is scraps.
It's two weeks until the Midwinterfaire. Let's see how much I can sew from all of these fabrics!
This is how it usually looks in my atelier. Stuff is stashed in front of the fabric cupboard. I have storage bins, mannequins, a large cardboard box with wood coat hangers, a plastic box with some small inventory items like the embroidered pouches
absintheskiss made, and oodles of small items that I really should clear away stacked in front of the cupboard. Some of it has already been taken from that far corner when I took this picture. Because I had to get my storage bins (I folded and pricetagged the rack yesterday night and my bins were in the far corner), I moved all of this junk to the other side of the room, leaving just a little space to turn around in. I stacked it all in front of the door. Oh yes, don't forget the trusted ironing board...
The complete, and full, cupboard. See, there is a floor under there, and it's ruled by dustbunnies. I clean and vacuum this room a couple of times each year: whenever we go to a faire, and everything is packed and I can actually reach down there.
But down into Stashland we go...
Bottom-right part of the stash. The bottom-most shelf holds the least-used fabrics. Here lies leather, pleather and suede (real and fake), as well as some leftover cotton velvet (at € 15,- per meter you don't toss your scraps!) and some very unused poly-taffeta and poly-satins that just scare me. There's even a bit of silk in there. And I also stash my personal fabrics here, because I never get around to sewing them.
Also: the leather is slowly migrating south. This is what happens when I don't clean the cupboard up periodically.
Right side at eye level: this is where most of my commonly-used fabrics lie. The printed fabrics that just spring out there, of all makes (poly-cotton, brocade, poly-satin brocade...) you name it! The autumny-jersey in green, gold and red (underneath the blue roses fabric) is for some longsleeves for myself. I bought the fabric a year ago.
On top of the cupboard are some bolts, and this is just arranged there because I've bought so much of it. The red bolt is a wool, the patterned things are printed poly-satins (uck), there's a whole role of light-brown cotton velveteen that I don't know what I'll do with, there's silk and poly chiffons, jersey knit and even a whole bolt of black lace...
What the hell do I need all that for? (That's a recurring thought...)
Top-left! On top are again, large bolts of fabric. Another red wool in a slightly different hue as the other, a black-and white rayon I bought off Stoffversandhandel.de I still don't know what to do with because it's so psychedelic, a bolt of blue wool, a printed cotton in snakeskin yellow/camel...
On the shelf beneath that are the Pathfinder fabrics and patterns, bagged and tagged, and the rest is mostly lining and undergarment fabrics. The reds are home-dyed, the whites are mostly cotton drill, linen or even twill. There's also some green stretch cotton in there.
Beneath all that white is my shelf of fake furs. it's often rather expensive, so whenever I find a fake fur that's affordable (€ 5,- or less per meter) I just snap it up. Including that god-awful, long-haired, bright green fur with sparklies in it that's on the bottom there. There's also scraps of fur, since you can still use it to edge something with.
Beneath the furs is a shelf with my wools. These are all thicker wools for coats, or really expensive wools. The blue and off-white and celery came from Reconstructing History.
Underneath that... is a junk-shelf. I don't even know what's up there. I don't think I want to know what is in those bags. I can see one of the bags holds a scrap of jersey I made a summer dress out of... but as for the rest, I can only guess. I think most of the stuff on the right-hand side is scraps.
It's two weeks until the Midwinterfaire. Let's see how much I can sew from all of these fabrics!
