First, thank you responding on the “Things to Buy” post. Good ideas mentioned in those – about the flowers too.
The new bins for storing the linen arrived yesterday, a day early. I had already been rolling some of the linen up on the comic book boards so I immediately got started adding the linen to the tubs.
This one bin is just for XJu linen. For at least three years, I was in her linen club and accumulated a nice collection of her gorgeous linen. I believe I could stitch everything I want to stitch using XJu’s linens but, of course, I have other linens too.
There was a question about whether the bins were tall enough. They are . . they’re pretty much perfect. Once I got that first bin loaded, I showed it to Vince and said “Look how perfect these bins are!” He said “Of course they are. I found them for you!” Vince, Vince, Vince!! He did find them. I got frustrated looking, gave him the width, length and height I was looking for and he found them.
It will be so much easier to choose linen when I have a new project. I start with the called for floss, find a linen I like and then if there are floss colors that will not show up well on the linen I want to use, I’ll sub that one out for a floss color that will show up.
I will not have a bin for each brand of linen. There are a few brands that I have more of than others and I may try to keep those together but it really doesn’t matter. I usually have an idea of what color I’m wanting to use – darker tan, lighter tan, yellowy off white, tan off white, gray, etc. The color matters more to me than does the brand/dyer.
It will be a while before I get all the linen where it needs to be. I want to get some projects finished and it’s going to be a while before I will be starting new projects that don’t already have linen pulled but it is nice to at least have the linen re-organization project started.
amy says
That looks great! Almost considering doing that with my fabric. Right now it’s on boards in 2 drawers but I could use the drawers for something else. Hmmm…
judy.blog@gmail.com says
These bins may fit under beds if they’re the taller bed frames. I originally thought under the bed might be a good idea but they’re pretty heavy when full and we only have one bed they will fit under. I’m going to put them on the lower two shelves of a metal shelf unit and that way I can “slide” them out, get what I want and slide them back. I don’t want to stack them because always, whatever bin I want to get into will be on the bottom! 🙂
Having your fabric already on boards will make this super easy and, as you say, free up drawer space.
justquiltin says
Look at all those beautiful colors of fabric.! Gorgeous
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Thanks! I wish I could stitch faster so I could use more of them! It’s been fun going through the linen. Some of it I remember buying. Some of it I remember trying to get it for quite a while before I was able to get it. Building a collection of linen has been quite different than it was when I was building a collection of quilt fabric!