Let’s call this … Part One Of What Will Most Likely Be Many, Many Parts. There are many ways to store fabric (and we’ll get to those another day) but for me, you can’t beat the Nicely Folded, Stacked On A Shelf method. Simple. Beautiful. Easy. Beautiful. Did I mention beautiful. Let’s nose around, shall [...]
Here’s a selection of fabrics from the “studio hovel” of Colleen MacDonald, sewer, crafter and owner of BCharmer Designs. (If this is a hovel, then my sewing room is … whatever’s messier than a hovel.) How I love that Pacific Northwest light. She had a few words to share with us on her obsession: My [...]
What’s that I spy? Let’s take a closer look. OH MY LANDS IT’S A FABRIC STASH. The lovely and talented Jennifer Casa of JCasa Handmade gives us a quick tour of her stash. Look+ at those colors! I want to just take a bite of those reds and oranges! That’s … weird, isn’t it. I [...]
Bring on the falling leaves and the pumpkins and the cocoa. A great stack of autumn colors from Ashley of Filminthefridge on Flickr. She writes on her blog about the fall quilt it’s becoming — boy, what a perfect combination. A nice pair of vintage prints in autumn colors from Kimmymade on Flickr. Her thoughts [...]
Stash time! Hold on to your hats: It’s the vintage edition. This photo is from Susie at Flower Press: This photo shows part of my fabric collection and all the different types of fabric I have in it, from hand printed pieces by myself and other indie designers through vintage pieces such as bark cloth [...]
Heather Moore, aka Skinny LaMinx, gave a peek at her vintage fabric stash beautifully stored in two glass-fronted cabinets. Oh, the beauty, concentrated all in one place. I love storage that puts the fabric on display. Here are a few words from Heather: I’m so pleased to have my stash in plain view at last, [...]
Take a gander at the light-filled, enviable studio of Claire Louise Milne, of needle book blog. Love that old Bernina, and especially love that fabric cabinet arranged chromologically. For more by Claire, see her blog or her etsy shop. Thanks, Claire! Be part of the ongoing Show Us Your Stash series! Drop your pics in [...]
Sew Mama Sew‘s blog is focusing on fat quarter projects all month. They also posted a little “stash interview” meme and started an accompanying Stash & Storage Flickr group — you can play along and answer these questions about your own fabric stash. I’m having fun reading others’ interviews. Here are my responses! What do [...]
This dreamy Christmas color story is from Brooke, whose new blog Inchmark should be on your must-read list. When I asked for permission to post she not only said yes but offered to ID the fabrics for us! So this is a value-added post. All fabrics are from Purl Patchwork; not all are currently available. [...]
I love Reference Library because it’s the one design blog that never makes me feel wanty or overwhelmed. Plus he has a special affinity for vintage fabric and textiles. Andy shared some of his wife Erin‘s stash of amazing vintage fabrics (photos are by Erin). See them all together here. Ooh look, a colorway reunion. [...]
I love these fabrics and this composition from Allison of Six and a Half Stitches, posted about here.
This is much-needed motivation for me. Here’s one good way to fold fabric so that all your fabrics end up the same width for stacking. What’s your system? from Quaint Handmade (blog) From Hip to Piece Squares (blog) From Samantha (blog) From lottielulu (blog) From Uplifting Arts (blog) From Karen D (blog) Add your stash [...]
Manda of Tree Fall wrote a lovely post about her fabric a while back. Did you see it? Some people cycle through fabric quickly and don’t keep much of a stash, some people have massive stashes and feel guilty about it. I was feeling pressure to be one or the other, but then Manda’s words [...]
Show Us Your Stash is a regular feature showing people’s recent stash enhancements, stash storage/organization, or fabric choices for an upcoming project. I have been obsessing on this palette put together by Fiona of Hop Skip Jump.
“Show Us Your Stash” will be a regular feature (weekly? we’ll see how it goes for a while) showing people’s recent stash enhancements, stash storage/organization, or fabric choices for an upcoming project. Some folks are talented at combining different fabrics, or staging fabric shots, and I wanted to highlight the most inspiring images here. Occasionally [...]
Subscribe to the True Up feed or get all posts by email.
If you only wish to subscribe to the Friday Sale Alerts, use this link for feed readers or sign up here to have them delivered to your email address.
