Folding Fabric with Comic boards

 There is so many ways to fold your fabrics these days that could fit the space require on your shelves.   I've tried many different way through the years to fold all my stash in a certain way that will be useful. I folded my fabric with a ruler,  stored them by colors, stored them by variation of size. All failed what I to provide a clear visual account of the what I had on display. Yes, I could see I had tons of blues and green and not much of reds, and yellows, but I couldn't SEE the fabric, because they were all piles on tops of each other and sometimes, one fabric was hidden from my sight. Ahhh. that is so sad. Okay I'm being a bit dramatic here, but you get the point.

At the quilt store you can SEE all the bold of fabric all laid up in neatly vertical rows that are stacked side-by-side. It's inviting enough that you end-up buying more fabric then you need or caught in "petting-the-fabric". How can I create that same idea in my sewing room pieces that are precuts anywhere from 1/2 meter to 5 meters? Only one folding way I hadn't tried yet. The comic book folding method.  

Comic Book Board

Comic book boards are sheet of paper of 8" x 11" and are acid free and great for storing your fabric on it. The cost is minimal for the 100 sheets of paper you have with one set. What I like the most is my entire stash can be folded the same size and way.

 

You can purchase those from Amazon and I also purchase alligator clips to hold fast the fabric. 

I took one pile of my fabric and of course I started with my favorite colors: Blues and greens. I won't gave all the detail how I folded the fabric with the comic board as they are many excellent tutorials already available on YouTube and I will leave a few below. 

                       This is the same pile of fabrics that is now neatly folded with the comic boards.

The pieces that were smaller than 1/2 meter were folded by size. All the smaller pieces that I couldn't fold with those were put in my scrap-bin. Yep, now I have scraps again. 

 

 

 Now I can SEE my fabrics even the smallest pieces. These folding method is great and I cannot wait to fold the rest of my stash the same way. When I have my sewing room all set up in my new home, I post a picture of how it look on my IKEA shelf unit. 

Folding Fabric with Comic Bard

 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=how+to+fold+fabric+for+storage+with+comic+boards#kpvalbx=_aOOvX7fEGPuw5NoPuICq2AY8

Purchase Of  Fabric

My projects are mainly created from my stash, but when I start new project or follow someone else pattern, I tent to lack greatly of solid background fabric. Also my selection of light fabric value is none existent. 

                                                This is my last purchase of fabric.

When you shop for fabric, what color do you go for or do you prefer buying kits?

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
    my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
    too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
    like a weaned child with its mother;
    like a weaned child is my soul within me.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalm 131

Happy Scraps!

 My goal to rid of all the scrap was successful. Yes, I've to admit I had doubts that all those scraps would be useful, but they did. While I cut, sew, and the crib/throw quilt,  I listened to a few of Paul Washer's sermons, Revive our Hearts podcasts, and Christian music. The time flew faster than I could manage in one day. It was fun to be creative with those fabric.

 Mini Blue Monday Quilt

 The crib/ throw quilt was made at least 80% of  those scraps, but I had to purchase white fabric for the background and inner border. I also used some fabric from my stash for the border. 

 Scraps

After using most of the pieces I needed for the quilt, I reorganized the rest of it by size and length. 

 

Cut as many as I could from them into squares and added them to my bin of square-scraps. That way they are ready and organized. Leaving a bunch of pieces in a bin or box gets them wrinkles and not really useful. 

 

 

 

Labelled and organized pieces are ready to be use in any of your projects. 

 

 

 

The same bin with what was left. Three pieces! All the trimmed edges and crumb scraps were put into  a clear plastic bag, so I could use them for a dog-bed filler. 

 

Corners that Add Flair

A total of  twenty-six Ohio Star blocks were sewed, but only used 25 of them for this crib/throw size quilt. It about 61" x 61 ". The blocks are 9".  When I laid the blocks on my design wall to see the overall picture of the quilt, I didn't  want the white square in it, so I sew a square on each corner of the block to created another block instead.  

        See the white square that was created by putting four blocks together.

What I did before I sew squares in each corner of the block, I pressed one of square in a triangle shape and set it on those same blocks to see if I would like it or not. And I did! Also I wanted to use as many scraps as possible.

Easy Corners

It was easy to add squares to all those corners. You can trace a line and slightly sew just next to it toward the point. That way your have the full triangle when you fold it back.

                   And then trimmed the corner off and leave a 1/4" seam allowance. Press. 

In the end, I loved how all the scrappy blues, greens, and a bits of reds have turned this into a charming little crib/throw quilt.  

Enlarging that last picture really showed the imperfection one of the blocks. It couldn't be helped, because trimming or squaring the mini-block would have leave me nothing to work with.  It also showed me that I have to practice my seam allowances on when I deal with smaller...I meant mini pieces. It's definitively not a 'failure', it's another challenge to performance. Let's go quilt!

 

 

                                         

                                                    The Prayer of Faith

Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.