Tutorial: How To Fold Fabric – Fat Quarter Style
Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:41Remember before I started jet-setting around NSW I promised a post from one of my favourite crafty bloggers, Ethan? Well the wait is finally over, a good week later than when I meant to get it up, but my thanks to Ethan for being so patient. Please say hello, check out his blog and give a warm welcome to Ethan on his first guest post at CraftBlog.
Today I will be sharing a quick tutorial of how I fold my fabric – so you can organise all of your fabric for spring. The tutorial is for any type material, as long as it is quite small (a cut of about 1½ metres maximum). The finished product is about the size of a fat quarter (15cm square). However, the sizes will vary slightly because of the fabric width, cut and weight of fabric etc. If you have any questions, feel free to pop over to my blog and contact me there!
Well, my fabric stash ‘box’ has been overflowing with fabric that I had bought and just stashed in there (literally – my fabric stash). I then decided to start a new project and had no-where to put my fabrics. Anyway, after buying the fabric I was thinking of a way to fold it so it could fit into the box with all the other fat quarters I had bought. It doesn’t take long; but I am a perfectionist, so it takes me about 5-7 minutes each one.
Let’s start shall we?
TIME REQUIRED: About 2-4 minutes for one type of fabric
DIFFICULTY: Really Easy!
Sorry about the quality of the photos – it’s been raining a lot lately – I tried to fix them in Photoshop for you!
You will need:
- Iron
- Ironing Board
- Fabrics
- Measuring Tape
- Starch (optional)
Full photo tutorial behind the jump –>
Fold your fabric so it measures (about) 50cm along the selvedges. Iron if perfectionistic.
Fold your fabric in half, with both selvedges at the top, and the fold at the bottom and iron.
Fold it along the centre and iron. This is your centre point.
Open your fabric back up and fold the raw edges into the centre point. If the person at the fabric store has cut it badly - this is hidden and it doesn’t matter if they overlap.
Fold your fabric downwards to make a square.
Fold it in half to make a rectangle.
Fold it in half again; and then you should have a square about 15 centimetres on each side. You’re done!
Happy Folding!
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Rachel says:
April 24th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Oh this is way cool and totally appeals to my neurotic organization-obsessed self. Thanks, I’ll be linking.
Katrina says:
May 15th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
This is something I’ve never really thought about… the right way to fold your fabric stash. Clearly I’ve been missing out. Thanks for the guide!
katherine says:
June 12th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I’m definitely doing this to my new fabric stash, thanks for the tutorial