rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-06 8:27 AM I am also a polo addict, and to make things worse, I know how to sew and so I make my own. Therefore I don't want to count how many pairs & sets I have. What I have been doing for storage though is making my own storage bags out of fabric remnants or old jeans. Legs of old jeans work the best because you have two less seams to sew. Then I've discovered that you can sew a piece of paracord on to your jean bag and have a handle.



In the trailer, I have a blanket bar that I don't use for blankets, so I have a bunch of carabiner clips and some pieces of string with trigger snaps at the end and I hang my polo bags up there. If you stack them right, you can hang 2-3 bags of polos on each carabiner clip. My trailer generally has 15-20 sets of polos hanging in it. About once a month, I go through and pull the ones I've used several times or gotten dirty, take them in the house to wash and I refill the trailer with clean(er) ones from the tubs in my barn tack room. 



Matt knows I have a serious problem with polo wraps but he happily took me to the fabric store last weekend (where we bought fleece with glow in the dark strips on it!!!!) so he's kind of an enabler........ 

pinx05 - 2015-01-07 5:53 PM  Ok tell me how!

rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-07 6:13 PM it's beyond simple. I buy velcro off Amazon (1.5 inch wide or 2 inch wide are my favorites) and fleece in three yard chunks at the fabric store (only when its 40% off or more....I am cheap!)

At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips  using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.



Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.

pinx05 - 2015-01-07 8:04 PM Well that is pretty simple, thanks! I don't know if you have a JoAnns fabric near you but you can sign up for them to send you coupons (in the mail or on your phone). They are always sending out coupons for like 25% off your entire bill, on top of the fabrics that are already on sale. I am pretty sure that is for buying online also.



For black friday they had a 3 day sale with some fabrics 75% off. I didn't look at fleece but I know it was on sale at the time. Veteran's day was a 70% off sale.



Ok I'll stop with my ol' lady fabric talk lol.

 

Blaundee - 2015-01-07 4:25 PM

 I have a whole bunch of sets lol I can't resist the colors and patterns!!! We keep ours in a duffle bag, neatly rolled up and placed together in sets. Once I take them off, they are in a tangle on the LQ floor, but the day after a race we sit down and roll them all back up lol we keep tape in the duffle bag, too, and have another bag for bell boots.

dashnlotti - 2015-01-07 8:51 PM


To keep them from getting tangled up, I re-roll mine as I take them off. They are always nice and neat and go right back into their bag. If they are wadded up in the bag, it is because they got too dirty and need to be washed.

rodeowithjoker - 2015-01-07 5:13 PM


it's beyond simple. I buy velcro off Amazon (1.5 inch wide or 2 inch wide are my favorites) and fleece in three yard chunks at the fabric store (only when its 40% off or more....I am cheap!)
At home, I cut the selvages off and cut the fleece into 4-5 inch wide strips  using my quilting ruler and a rotary cutter. You have to make sure to fold the fleece in half so it's 4.5 feet long before you cut it or you'll end up with short polos. Once I have strips, I fold one end into a triangle like the picture shows. I sew a few stiches across the two sides of the triangle to hold it in place, then lay the sticky velcro strip across the middle of the triangle so it sticks out past the point of it. I sew across the velcro at the pointy end, down the edge of the velcro, across the bottom of the triangle, then up the side of it, to the top, down the other side, across the bottom to the first edge of velcro, then diagonally to your starting point, across the top by your first seam, diagonally from right to left to the bottom of the triangle, then up the velcro edge to your starting point. I've attached a picture with arrows and numbers to hopefully illustrate it.

Then I measure down from the tip of the triangle about 6-7 inches (6.5 is my current standard) and center the other half of the velcro on the polo wrap. I sew all the way around the velcro, cut my loose threads and roll the polo up so its ready to use.

classicpotatochip - 2015-01-05 7:42 PM

Umm, all over the trailer tack room floor, floor boards, and draped around the tack room at home don't count?