Showing You My Stash...

Judy over at Patchwork Times - she comes up with all kinds of ideas...  Show Us Your Stash is her latest!

Frankly my stash isn't very pretty... it's mostly still all packed up in the bins I moved it in.  Right now the bins are serving as a base for my large ironing surface.  (The Engineer is making me a rolling base... more about that later.)  I didn't pick up the fabric scraps or threads - so don't look at the floor!

These drawer units are a complete mess.  What I need to do is take everything out and start all over with them.  They are a hodgepodge of projects, fabric collections (florals, B&W, neutrals), various supplies, leftovers from projects, and a variety of fabrics I've just stuffed in the drawers to get it off the daybed.  I did start a few drawers for pre-cut strips of various sizes - when I re-organize I'd like to expand by either using more drawers or changing over to the larger drawers.  There are smaller bins with various scraps from previous quilts.  Behind the blue drawer stack is a built in storage closet - filled with misc. boxes of other (non-quilt) stuff that I guess I need to go through and get packed off someplace else (like the dumpster).  I moved my sewing table out of the way - so again don't look at the threads on the floor...

Here is one of the two built in storage closets.  In this one I have my books, misc. projects in totes, some vintage machines still in boxes, and bolts of fabric.  Now in my defense - 5 of those bolts are for curtains - the other 9 bolts - well, lets not talk about them... OK.

  And of course there's all the stuff that accumulates on the day bed... left overs from 3 recent projects, fabrics for the Double Delight, a backing I'm working on, some quilt tops and books to be put away, and a travel bag of supplies I was rummaging through.  The bed was cleared off this past summer when I had company... maybe I need more company to keep this cleared off!

So that's what I've got going currently.  I miss my Ikea cabinets that I used at our house in MA - but they are too tall for this studio.  I'd like to use the built in storage closets for fabric storage but will need to figure out shelves or drawers or something.