I have a lot of fabric. A lot. I'm way past the point where I can just put similar types together in a few boxes and find what I want. I've reached the point where I really need to get organized, recording yardage, width, type of fabric, and most of all, an image. ("Geometric blue print" covers way too much territory.)
I once shopped a lot at Fabric.com, which went under some time ago, after Amazon bought out the founders and raised the prices. But the other day autocomplete revealed to me that my list of all the orders I ever made is still stored online--with a thumbnail picture of each fabric! While I can't get width, fiber content, weight, or stretch because the links to the product are dead, I can snag an image of everything I ever bought.
It's a slow slog, but my Pinterest board now has many pages of fabrics bought, with pictures, amounts, and prices. If I can figure out how to put an image in a spreadsheet (is that a thing?) I could totally organize by type and over time, repack everything in a way that makes sense and lets me find it again.
Maryn, whose eyes are spinning like pinwheels after a few hours of old order
I once shopped a lot at Fabric.com, which went under some time ago, after Amazon bought out the founders and raised the prices. But the other day autocomplete revealed to me that my list of all the orders I ever made is still stored online--with a thumbnail picture of each fabric! While I can't get width, fiber content, weight, or stretch because the links to the product are dead, I can snag an image of everything I ever bought.
It's a slow slog, but my Pinterest board now has many pages of fabrics bought, with pictures, amounts, and prices. If I can figure out how to put an image in a spreadsheet (is that a thing?) I could totally organize by type and over time, repack everything in a way that makes sense and lets me find it again.
Maryn, whose eyes are spinning like pinwheels after a few hours of old order