Flattening the Fabric Mountains

Well, the rocker re-do has hit another roadblock- the weather.  It's all painted up and ready for the slats to be attached.  Since the weather has gotten ridiculously hot, I have decided to borrow a nailer to finish the project.  I can't imagine nailing all those slats using just a hammer in 90+ degree heat.  No thanks. The nailer will hasten the project.  I will show you once it's completely finished. 

Meanwhile, I have been spending some time indoors trying to flatten the heaps of fabric that are creating a mountainous terrain on the floor of my craft room.  In researching fabric organization, I stumbled upon crating mini bolts using comic book backing board. They are about 7" x 11" and made of thin cardboard.   I thought this might work for me.  It is the perfect size height wise to fit in the Ikea Expedit bookcase in my craft room. 

I ordered the backing boards from Amazon.  I have to admit, they sat in my craft room for a month, but I finally broke them out and started wrapping fabric around them yesterday. Let me show you the difference.

From this:

to this:

Using this tutorial, I watched the season finale of Revenge (let me just say-WOW!) and organized a huge pile. 

Somewhere in the middle of my task, my "helper" woke up from her nap. The assembly line I had going started looking something like this:

I had a bunch of fabric that was oddly shaped, so I just did my best in folding it into the roll.  It all worked out.

Overall, I'm happy with how it turned out.   The pile shown above represents about 1/4 of my stash.  I still have a lot of work to do.  All in good nap time:)

Easier Than I Thought!

Cost: Around $10 for 100 boards!