Friday, September 2, 2011

Flimsie Storage

While I was organizing my quilting things for the quilt studio, I realized that I had a stack of flimsies that had not been hanging in the closet with the yarn. After sending the Star Struck flimsie to Amy, I had 5 flimsies leftover that weren't on hangers.

What to do, what to do? Where could I put these 5 flimsies?

I had a major brainstorm!! I had an old pants hanger that can hold 5 pairs of pants like this one below and I was going to donate it to GoodWill...

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Brainstorm!!! I thought, why not put my flimsies on it?

Here it is with all 5 flimsies - and backings for 4 of them.

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I just slid the flimsie and the backing onto the wires and staggered them so that they hung on different sides of the hanger.

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Two on one side, two on the other and the one at the bottom hanging off the center.

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And here is the hanger in the bedroom closet. There are 2 or 3 other quilts to the right and the yarn to the left.

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This is going to be a great use of space!!

These little guys got their nails clipped last night and they were still pouting when I took this picture.

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6 comments:

Deb A said...

Great idea!

Jean(ie) said...

Great idea! now get those flimsies quilted!!! Bwahahahaahahahaha!!!!

Kristie said...

Love that idea! But my problem is all of my 34+ flimsies would fill up the closet! LOL! Looks like you have a good selection of yarn stored up too!
Kristie

Cheryl Willis said...

my flimsys go from being folded to hung up back to folded, I think it is because I am in denial that there are so many, when I fold them it hides them for awhile. when I hang them it is because I think I am going to start quilting, so I get the TO DO's out.

Kate said...

Very organized!

PunkiePie (Jen) said...

Great idea. Mine are hanging over my balcony. It's a bit out of control here. Lol!