Bookcase 1 is full

 I have folded enough fabric to fill up the first bookcase.  I think it looks pretty good, with all the fabric folded this way.  Once I find all my fabric, and get it folded, I will work on sorting it all by color families.  But just getting it folded and having more room on the shelves is an accomplishment.

Here is a picture of all my solids.  I may find more in my other boxes, but I think this is most of them. At least there is some room to add more, if I should come across any more in my boxes.

I have most of the fabric folded on the top shelf of bookcase 2, but didn't get a picture of that.  I should be able to finish up the last of bookcase 2 and get some of what is piled on a chair, folded in the next couple of days.  I wanted to get it done before I unpacked more boxes because I know I will find more fabric, and I wanted to have a place to put it before I take it out of the boxes.

I also plan to clear off a couple of shelves in the bookcase next to 2, so I have at least 2 more shelves for any fabric I find.  My threads are in boxes on those shelves, and I think I have a better place to put my threads, so I will be working on that after I'm done with bookcase 2.

So far, I have folded 597 yards of fabric.  I don't even want to guess at how much I have in half yard and fat quarter pieces.  But I probably will have well over 1000 yards of fabric, including scraps, by the time I'm finished organizing and counting it all.  Good thing I have lots of ideas for quilt tops I want to make, and once I'm done organizing, I can get busy cutting and sewing them all.

Well, it's time to get back to work... I have more fabric to fold.

Until next time... Happy Crafting!!!

Making progress

 I have been making a lot of progress on refolding my fabrics.  I got all 3 of the shelves in one bookcase folded and stacked.

There was a box in Shed 2, that had fabric in it.  I thought it was all fabric, but when I went to get some of it out to fold and add to shelf 3, I found out it was only "filler" for the box.  There were only 28 pieces of fabric in there, so I got those folded and added to the bottom shelf.
I know there is more fabric hiding somewhere, because I haven't found some fabric I had purchased for a couple of embroidered quilts I want to make.  I have more boxes to unpack in Shed 2, so I'm sure I will find it, just have to get those boxes open and see what is in them.

This is the other bookcase full of fabric I need to work on.

On Saturday, I started on the solids on shelf 3 of this one, I didn't take a picture of it yet, I wanted to wait until I got the rest of my solids folded. 

I hadn't planned on doing all the refolding at once, but as I got going on it, I thought it would be a good idea to do it all, so when I find more fabric, I will have a place to put it, rather than just piling it up on a chair or the floor.

While I have the fabric on my table to refold it, I have been measuring it.  A group of quilters were doing this last year, to find out how much they had in their stash, and to keep track of what comes in and what goes out.  I thought it would be fun to keep track of mine, so decided that since I needed to refold all my fabric anyway, might as well measure it.
In the first bookcase I got finished, I have 379.5 yards of fabric.  The solids I have folded so far total 54 yards.   It will be interesting to see how much I have, once I find it all, and then see if I can have more going out than coming in. 

Once I get all my boxes unpacked, and most of my stuff organized, I will be setting goals for how much I want to use from my stash by getting quilt tops or bags made.  I have been collecting ideas for some quilt blocks that I want to make, and making a list of what I need to cut in order to sew them.  When I start to organize my scraps, I should have a number of blocks/quilts I can start cutting for, so that I can start to get some of that out of my stash.  The sooner I get my yardage folded, and the boxes in shed 2 unpacked, the sooner I can start organizing my scraps and get back to sewing.

Oganizing My Stuff

Last week, I finally got the hubster to move some things out of shed 1, so I could put up more shelves to store and organize my crafting supplies.

I have 4 shelving units on that side of the shed, and room for one more on the other side.  I have 6 units that can go in Shed 2, once I get more boxes unpacked and out of the way over there.  Now I need to figure out where I'm going to put everything so I can find it when I need it and keep it organized.
I also added a couple more shelves to a rack similar to these in my studio.  I didn't get a picture of it, but it is deeper and wider, and I plan on storing my threads there, so I can get to them when I need them.
 

I have decided that I need to get my fabric better organized.  I don't have enough room on my bookcases to get any more in there, and I have a stack of fabric sitting on a chair needing to find a home.  Also as I was going through the remaining 15 to 20 boxes that need unpacking from the move, I found 1 box full of fabric.  I haven't been able to get to the other boxes yet, so there may still be more fabric that needs a home.
Yesterday I spent my day refolding some of my fabric.  I got one shelf done, and there is room to add more fabric to it, when I get more folded.

I took this picture before I was finished, but it will give you an idea of the before and after of how I'm folding my fabric. 

I started on the top shelf. Right now, I'm not worried about sorting by color, I don't have enough room to keep piles on my table, or an empty shelf to put them until I get more of the same color families.  As I work through each shelf, I will be putting color families together.  I want to keep all my solids, or reads as solids together, so they won't get lost in the sea of prints. 
While I have the fabric out, to refold, I'm measuring each piece, and getting a picture of it.  There were a number of people in a group I belong to that measured their fabric to see how much they actually had.  I thought it would be fun to find out just how much fabric I have, so I decided I would keep track of what I have.  The picture is so I can add it to my Electric Quilt program, so when I'm designing a quilt I can use my own fabrics, and not just images of fabric I don't have.

That's it for today, will try to keep updating my refolding progress as it happens.

Until next time...Happy Crafting!!