My Quilt Room is Coming Together

Remember a while back I asked for advice about wire baskets for fabric storage? Well this is what I got, an Elfa system from the Container Store. Even though each drawer is loaded pretty full, they still pull out smoothly, and the drawers come all the way out which is nice.

The 9-cube unit on top is from Target. I've always loved the look of yarn displayed like this. And 3 vases for needles and crochet hooks. Oh, the possibilities! (I bought the smallest vase to hold my crochet hooks for $1 at Goodwill this week.) Up on top there are some more needles in 2 antique Japanese vases, a wire dress decoration from Pier 1 Imports, and my sewing box, which you may also recognize as the Online Quilt Museum's Suggestion Box. Haha. Adding a little color to the scene is a chair that I painted just for fun.

The fabrics are sorted in categories like: solid red-yellow, solid green-blue, solid neutrals, Dots Stripes and Plaids, Kaffes, Pre-cuts, Novelty, Silk, Floral, Batik etc. One small drawer is just for greens and foliage prints! Some kind of jungle/garden quilt is on the horizon for me.

I still have a lot of plastic boxes though. Above you can see my selvage stash. Three boxes full and an empty one on top for new additions. I have some wire wreath frames in there that I may cover with selvages. Not sure about that; it seems like a waste of good selvages.

Hopefully these boxes of backing and quilt tops will be processed this year, reducing the quantity of stacked boxes. We'll see. The 7 boxes on the far left are scraps like one-inch strips and orphan bits (as opposed to bigger folded pieces).

There's still a long way to go to get organized after all these years of having stuff in storage, but it's coming along. My lower back is hurting this week. I wasn't careful about lifting, but I will be in the future!

Thanks for visiting me in my new quilt room. More photos to come as I make progress.