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all my yarn is stored in plastic totes, arranged by color! Right now my stash is up to 6 totes… LOL
No special way, I’m afraid. Just in a cedar chest.
I actually use multiple methods, perhaps because I have so much yarn! I have yarn in canvas bins in storage units; yarn in plastic bins; yarn in plastic bags; and wool yarn in cedar chest (damn moths!).
I store my yarn in big plastic storage containers…..I mean the REALLY big ones! LOL I only have a little yarn…hehe..I have them stored by fibre…..and all labeled.
It depends on how much stash you have. I store mine on shelving in clear plastic bins, grouped by type and color. My stash is small right now because we just moved.
It’s most important to keep it dust, bug and smoke free.
I have my yarn separate by type (fiber content). Large quantities of a single yarn type are stored together for instance access.
i use old suitcases with a dryer used dryer sheet. you can usually find them cheaper than the plastic totes and the yarn doesn’t get smelly from being closed without any air.
plastic storage totes, sorted by weight. I long for a more sophisticated storage system, but this is all I have room for
I save and use those net bags from the produce section that hold cherry tomatoes
I store my yarn in plastic covered containers. I am in the process of moving everything to a shelving unit so I can see what I have. Hopefully I can start using up some of my stash instead of adding to it.
I have it in see through plastic bags,but was told not a good idea.It should be able to get air?
I store mine in plastic bins like most people. I do put fiber contents together and have the bins labeled as such. Here’s my low tech way of keeping up with it.
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I store my stash in plastic bags, which are then stored in plastic bins. On the bags, I have the amount of yarn, type, brand and color.
I have specific project yarn in acid free photo boxes, and the remainder of my stash is split between baskets and plastic bins. It is all stored on shelving in my craft room.
I stored my yarn in clear plastic storage totes separated by fiber content.
My spare room is my crafting area. The closet has 10×10 interlocking cubbies with yarn sorted by weights
In the room itself I have cabinets and cubbies meant as cliser organizers, but work perfectly for yarn. Shoe cubbies ate great for storing sock yarn!
Two large plastic storage bins downstairs for the yarns that are mostly leftovers from various projects. I have noticed a number of plastic shopping bags upstairs with new balls of yarn – oops! Better get to work on some new projects!!
I store about half on cedar shelves made for me by my husband just for this purpose. I love to look over & see all my yarn & think about all my projects I have yet to start. The other half I have in plastic bins. I love to look through those also to see all the beautiful shades of color.
I store mine in plastic bags on a bookshelf in my office/craft room. It is sorted by projects. Each bag contains the yarn I am using and the pattern to the design I want to make with it. Although, I do change my mind sometimes about the project (not very often).
I’m in the process of moving, but have kept my yarn all over the place. I removed clothers from chest of drawers & a lot went in there. The rest is in plastic bins. Anything I’m working on I got a new bag that has a bird flying across it and it says – “time flys while having fun”.
I store mine in totes and bags.
I have most of mine stored in plastic drawers and some are in totes.
I store mine in cute organizing totes embroidered with the yarn weight. Odds and ends are stored in a tote embroidered with Yarn Stash.
Mine is stored in storage bags in craft crates!
I keep mine in my craft room in plastic drawers on wheels. Easy accessible!
Most of mine are stored in the large clear totes that comforters were purchased in. I like them with the zippers. I do have about six large cloth and leather bags with different started projects in them that I am working on. Lol
I store mine in an old suitcase.
Ikeep mine in the bag purchased in until most of it is used for 1 or more projects, and then put the leftover in another bag with all my leftovers to use for a multi-color project.
Storage is a problem. The majority is in two Lion Brand green totes with the skeins in plastic bags inside the totes. THEN I have some in 3 hatboxes that sit prettily in the corner and THEN I have some in a 4 drawer plastic chest of drawers. THEN there’s the bag of yarn that’s waiting for me to finish the husband’s sweater so I can start one for myself. That one lives in the knee hole of my desk. I either need to de-stash or move someplace with more room!
I store mine in plasic totes and the reusable shopping bags.
I work in retail and about 8 years ago the store was getting rid of some of their fixtures and I had the opportunity to take home these large metal stacking baskets (4 of them) with the bottom one having casters so I can wheel it around. They’re filled with all of my yarn, a basket for leftover scrap yarn and the other baskets sorted by weight and colors.
I store my yarn in a big old entertainment center. It has lots of shelves and is open so you can see all your yarn Its in my sewing room and it works for me.
I usually sort my yarn by color and store in zipper bags. Right now everything is in 3 big boxes, but I’m hoping to find a new storage system.
I have to be creative since I live in a fifth-wheel trailer. I use plastic storage tubs, clear zip-top bags with the air squished out and knit/crocheted market bags to tuck all the skeins away in various places.
I sore my yarn in Space bags. I like the cubes because it holds so much more yarn! They are the bags that you take the air out with your vaccum cleaner and they compress down. I make index cards of the yarns name, fiber type, ounces/grams, yards/meters, dye lot, guage and hook/needle size, how many balls, and tape a small piece of the actual yarn on the card. Put all the cards for the yarn that’s in the airtight cube in a plastic baggie and tape the baggie to the cube. Lots more space and then easier to tell my husband that I need to buy more yarn!!!!!
I sTore my yarn in Space bags. I like the cubes because it holds so much more yarn! They are the bags that you take the air out with your vaccum cleaner and they compress down. I make index cards of the yarns name, fiber type, ounces/grams, yards/meters, dye lot, guage and hook/needle size, how many balls, and tape a small piece of the actual yarn on the card. Put all the cards for the yarn that’s in the airtight cube in a plastic baggie and tape the baggie to the cube. Lots more space and then easier to tell my husband that I need to buy more yarn!!!!!
I keep my yarn in hanging, clear-front, zippered sweater bags or shoe bags. The sweater bags generally have 8 shelves and each can hold about 8 6-oz skeins. The shoe bags have 10 tiny shelves and are great for storing crochet thread, trims, and ribbon.
They keep the yarn clean, dust free, and easily visible. I can see at a glance how many skeins of each color I have. I currently have 3 full ones, but could use a 4th. I have just one of the hanging shoe bags.
I’m pretty frugal, so i store mine in banana boxes from the grocery store…they stack well…and I sort mine by plain and mixed colors.
Little bitty balls for miscellaneous projects go in Ziplocks. Wool goes into big colorful popcorn tins that I pick up at rummge sales and thrift store. Nice soft yarn for chemo hats go into larger ziplocks. Bulky yarn and rug yarn is rolled in balls sorted and saved in baskets which are nice decorative accents in my home. Colors are semi sorted into clear plastic bags and then all yarn which is put away for future projects go into big tubbies.
I store mine in large plactic totes, i have a few of them…..i try to use it up so it doesnt sit in there for tooo tooo long….so many patterns so little time<3
I store my yarn in large see-through plastic containers. I store like yarns and threads each to their own container. All my 4 ply yarn goes in one, all my crochet thread in another. I have a container for offbeat yarns where I need a little of this or a little of that for some project. I also keep baggies with small notions in this container: buttons, embellishments, ribbons, beads etc.
My yarn is stored in separate bags in a cedar chest. My current working stash is in a cubby in my coffee table. Current project is in a tip out bin in my coffee table.
I store my yarn in reusable shopping bags, and suit cases. My working yarn is stored in a hanging planter that I knitted. Also always have yarn in my purse. I also have lots totes of yarn in storage.
I have all the lot #’s together and stored in drawers in what use to be my sewing table, now the knitting table.
Sometimes I think of Yarn Shops as just being temporary storage for my stash. But once it makes it ot my home, I either store it in plastic bins, or in zippered sweater bags. I buy them whenever I see them at a good price. They hold the yarn until I make the sweater, then keep the finished item protected. They’re also nice to give along with a knitted gift, so the receipient can also keep the item safe.
I store mine by weight in wire basket drawer units that are typically seen in closets. I have work tables on the of the baskets which are in an l-shape along two walls leaving the center of the room open for other creative projects.
I used to work from home so now that area is a craft area & I store yarn in the file cabinets.
It depends on what the yarn is. Because I live in the country and moths are a never ending part of live, my wool is in a cedar chest. I`m a sock knitting and I have all of my sock yarn in a hanging closet system. I can get to it fast. Everything else is in one of 15 plastic totes. Which are all over the house. I even have yarn under my husbands bed. He doesn`t know its there. Lets leave it that way ok
plastic totes (they fit under my bed), sorted simply by ”nice” and ”not so nice” yarn! and scrap and tiny project yarn kept in a ziploc bag.
I store my yarn in lidded boxes (the kind reams of copy paper are shipped in) whose lives I have saved from being thrown into a crusher. I belong to the recycle, repair, reuse generation. There is ample room to label the boxes with yarn weight, color, etc. They stack in my craft room beautifully but the one I need to go through is always on the bottom…why is that?
I use plastic kitty litter jugs. I cut the tops off under the rim that forms the handle & pour spout using a knife or strong scissors. Then my yarn is sorted by color & type and put in lg. ziplock bags. The bags are put in the litter bins & placed on shelves. I’ve just discovered that this stores more yarn then the bags or bins alone. The bins have no rims to take up shelf space and the bags hold yarn that is over the top of the bin. (It also prevents my cats from fishing out yarn to play with!) You can also write on the bins with a permanent marker or tape a label with packaging tape.
I love storing my yarn in old vintage suitcases that I have cleaned up. For current projects I store them each in a big ziploc bag to keep the pet hair in the yarn to a minimum and then I tote them around in a super cute bag for crocheting on the go. 🙂
I store my yarn in hanging sweater and shoe bags; the different sizes accomodate the varying amounts of yarn/type/colors I have. Also the floor and top shelves are available for tools and accessories.
I store my yarn in metal baskets attached to metal shelves.I like to store yarn by weight so they are together when a begin a project.
My yarn is in totes: blues and purples; pinks and greens; browns and yellows, etc.
Mine is stored in a closet on shelves. Except it’s now overflowing, so there is more stored on the floor in zippered bags and totes.
I store my yarn in clear plastic stackable cabinet drawers, and in wicker baskets I keep on top of my book shelves
We have recently moved so I currently have a majority of my stash in plastic bins in our storage area. Not long ago the kids and I managed to empty out an old suitcase filled with clothes that were, at the time, too big. Perhaps I will use that suitcase to pack some of my yarn that I recently have to add to my stash. Yes, even tho we have moved and a majority of my stash is in storage I admit that I still continue to add to it and use it. I am currently working on a “scrap yarn afghan”, which I am using to “store” some of my stash in. LOL!
My yarn is stored in gallon ziplock bags in whatever random box I have available. Its like Christmas when I rediscover a box I forgot about! *chagrin*
I manage the yarn for a charity that makes hats and scarves for children, so I sort by type in large plastic storage tubs and include a dryer softener sheet.
I store my yarn in plastic totes. In the process of moving so not sure where I’ll store the yarn in my new home.
the bulk of my yarn is stashed in stacking drawer bins, right now 4 high. they’re clear, i can see what’s in there. they don’t take up much floor space and they’re low cost. can’t beat them for stashing.
I store my yarn in large plastic storage tubs by brand name.
I have 2 hanging storage units that are made for sweaters. They hang up in the closet, and they have a hole in the front of each cubby. It has about 5 cubbies per storage unit. I have my yarn sorted by color and weight.
Big plastic totes, no organization so it always seems like Christmas when I go through them to see what I have! lol
As I am busy knitting baby sweaters, I have all my wool in plastic buckets (with handles). I hang some of them from the wall and others are stacked with each invidual color and type of wool stored individually in these baskets. I also have plastic rectangular boxes that do the same job. I like to work with certain types of wool, so as my basket/box starts to empty I know it’s time to go on line and order more!
Most of my yarn is stored in clear plastic totes by color family. Yarn separated for special projects and unusual yarns are in zippered bags that came with comforters or mattress pads. Current projects (3-4) are in canvas totes.
I have two hanging sweater holders. They have 5 shelves each, I hang them in my craft closet. Projects go into ziplocs, and go into a small plastic basket I carry around when working on the project. I also use the plastic hangers that Wally World no longer reuses. I clip the ziplocs onto them and also hang in the closet.
Since we moved last year, I’ve been trying REALLY hard to (ha ha) organize my stash, so most of it is now in blue jumbo totes in the bedroom’s walk-in closet (a.k.a. my “craft closet”). Note I said MOST of it…..unfortunately the rest always seems to end up in plastic grocery bags hanging from the back of spare chairs here & there. Ah well, it’s a work in progress, lol!
I store my yarn by color, loosely in large plastic bins.
I live on a boat, so my space is limited. I store yarn in zip-lock bags grouped by project or color/type first due to possibility of getting wet (I am on a boat!). Then I put the ziplock bags into canvas bags that zip up. They have large pockets on the outside to keep other items handy. I use on bag for yarn I’m not currently using, and another bag for currently used yarn.
I love to store yarn in one of the sweater hanger things. I’m not sure there name, it has 5 or 6 pockets. My grandson’s outgrew the thing that has all the days of the week on them with little cubbies you store in the closet with there clothes for the day. Also, a over the door hanger for many shoes they are usually clear and the perfect size.I love the pocket size, you can store yarns and projects I get bored with. I save them for later in one spot. Also plastic coffee cans. A hole in the top and off I go.
I have some of my yarn stored in a zippered quilted plastic storage bag w/ a clear cover, that has about 40 separate compartments for storing shoes. The whole thing hangs up in the closet. Other yarn lives in three underbed storage containers. Moth-phobic yarns are kept safe in vacuum-sealed food storage bags that are then “filed” in plastic bins by fiber content.
I have several three drawer plastic containers, a bit like very short dressers, lined up on one wall of my study. I keep my yarn in the drawers and have my tools sitting on top. This system may have to change soon because we have a new cat who has figured out how to open the bottom drawers.
I store mine in pretty hat boxes. The hat boxes are then used to decorate. They look very nice sitting around.
I bought 3 of those huge ziplock bags for blankets and such. One bag is for regular weight yarn,one is for speciality yarns and the last one is for wool yarn. They are clear so it’s easy to see through and air-tight so nothing gets in!
You all have such great ideas! I’m embarrassed to say my yarn is not organized at all:-( Most of it is in the shopping bags from when I purchased it, often on sale so not ‘project’ oriented. It’s fun looking for yarn to do a project …. get all sorts of ideas. But I really need to get organized!!!!
I have all my yarn in decorative baskets on my walk-in closet shelves.
I store my yarn in the new plastic version of the old milk cartons. I can see the yarn & store by color and/or make – the rest are stored in see-through plastic tubs. I luv my yarn!
My yarn is stored in large decorative boxes of varying sizes in my workroom. The boxes are really big and colorful and when stacked make great end tables. I get functionality and storage combined!
I have the good stuff in really cute baskets and the acrylic stuff on some shelves in the closet. All of which are in my craft room=)
Hanging fabric sweater and shoe storage shelves allow me to see all the yarns, and the varied colors at the same time.
I have yarn all over the house. I have been searching for a solution and ideas to create the perfect craft room and yarn storage. I’ll be checking out all the comments for ideas.
I use a shoe holder that hangs behind the door.
I store my yarn in wooden shoe holders. The kind that look like bookcases with square cubby holes. They sit on the floor and stack against a wall nicely.
I store my yarn in big plastic containers or zipper bags that blankets come in; and also in ziplock big storage bags.