i am in love

My latest project:  organizing my craft room.  I would sit in it and just become overwhelmed by the clutter.  I had rubber stamps looming over me, yarn falling out of baskets everywhere, a bazillion little clutter organizers that weren't organizing anything.  I had some books there that I never looked at because they were behind sliding doors, but most books were in another room.  Fabric lived in a big sterlite tub in another room down the hall.

So I have been purging and decluttering like crazy, and have slowly been getting some Ikea furniture to help organize everything.  I've also been spending a bit of time on Pinterest looking at ideas.  Will have more pictures on that when I'm done.  But first I wanted to share one organizing scheme that I have completely fallen in love with - I had doubts when I first saw it, but now I am utterly charmed.  

When I see pictures of organized sewing rooms, the fabric is either stacked neatly horizontally - which would never work for me, I could see those piles easily falling over - or vertically.  How do they do the little vertical mini-bolts, I wondered.  Then Margaret found this post that explains a cheap way to do it:  comic book boards.  They're already acid-free etc, they're a standard size, and they're cheap - about $12 for 100 on Amazon.  You fold fabric selvage to selvage twice, which is exactly the height of these boards, and the fold the fabric around the board.

At first I thought, how terribly OCD.  

Then I thought, I don't use the fabric much because I never see it.  This may be a viable way to get it out in the open in a non cluttered fashion.  So I ordered some and tried it.

You know that feeling you get when you first fall in love with a craft?  I felt that rush when I first saw embossing powder melt under a heat gun, and I was hooked on rubber stamping thereafter.  I have it every time I go into a nice yarn store.  I had it when I finished my first woven scarf.  And now I have fallen in love with folding my fabric.

Not sure I'm addicted to sewing yet, but I sure have become addicted to fondling fabric :D