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Your yarn storage is a mess considering of this disharmonize:

Yarn companies want you to buy the yarn. You desire to use the yarn. The ideal ball of yarn for each goal is different. You will buy a ball of yarn that is soft, squishy, and that looks big for the price. Plus, small-batch hank producers want to invest in less equipment and reduce labor. But, when it comes to using the yarn, yous demand to discover the end, create good tension, and–allow's face up information technology–store it with the ungodly amount of yarn they've already suckered you into taking dwelling. You want to use a ball of yarn that has a conspicuous end hanging out of the center of a meaty heart-pull brawl.

So, while you lot'd honey to be similar Vanna White and accept a pretty pedestal bowl for your v skeins of yarn, well… seriously? Do you KNOW how much YARN I have, Vanna? Practise yous KNOW how fast MY cat (who isn't a designer Bengal true cat, just a fluffy rescue true cat that's fashion cuter than yours!) would POUNCE on that basin of yours, DESTROYING those pretty skeins?

Yes, thanks, Vanna, but no. I don't even know where you lot'd get a fancy pedestal bowl like that.

Right now you're using drawers, baskets, and zip-lock numberless. All good ideas, only kind of a hurting in the ass to access, and starting to fill every crevice you can find. Plus, they're missing one big affair. If you take a yarn trouble, yous probably love gorgeous things. Why go on your best treasures in the dark?

The event: you need to upgrade your yarn storage solution.

Just yous're in luck! Google "yarn storage" and have your pick from over 21 meg ideas. Uh… OK, you take standards. Let's refine that and Google "yarn organization". Proficient, now you only take thirteen one thousand thousand options. Sigh.

OK permit'due south look at Pinterest. That's the amend fashion to wait for things like this anyway. (type type type, enter). Woah, that looks awesome! Oh my god, I similar that one. Ooooo, so pretty. What else is on that board? OMG I have to repin that now. Squee! Oreos baked within chocolate chip cookies!? Genius! I'm craving cupcakes now. Isn't it perfect weather for baking? Oh shit, my true cat is eating my yarn!

Oh, internet, you're as mischievously useful as Aladdin's Genie, aren't you?

Try some other angle. Jill at The Dapper Toad made a list of her needs: "For me, the ideal yarn storage solution has 3 qualities. It must exist: easily accessible, out of the mode, and nicely displayed. There are countless means to shop yarn that meets 1 or two of these ideals, but never all iii! It's the elusive yarn lover'southward trifecta!"

She took a page from makers (those people us crafters date and ally), for storage ideas. Yarn, hooks, and needles are our materials and tools. How do makers store materials and tools?

Now that'south crafty! Jill fifty-fifty put the peg board behind the door, turning and unused space into a useful one.

Sold! I'yard always rearranging my flat. I take this little nook that wasn't working as an part, but would work perfectly as a yarn studio. Plus, recollect of all that cupboard space I'd go back! I rearranged (over again) and enlisted Jill for assistance. Let me show you what we did.

What you need to make a peg board yarn storage wall

Back to our initial conflict. You have lots of skeins and hanks that are hard to work with and bulky to shop. The outset thing you need is like a little eight pound six ounce baby Jesus: a yarn winder. This ane is a good balance of quality and price.

Winding is fast, easy, and fun! I recommend holding the strand as you wind to requite it some tension. It volition wind better and create a more meaty ball. Winding alone reduced my yarn storage by a third: from 15 ANTONIUS IKEA drawers to just 10!

Peg lath and hooks are cheap and sold at most hardware stores. Boards come in two×four-foot sections: combine or tailor cutting them to your space. For each lath, be sure to option up a set of the spacers and screws that hold the peg lath abroad from the wall a picayune, where the hooks poke through and ballast. They're normally with the hooks, non the boards. Hooks come up in all shapes and sizes: I recommend two- and 4-inch direct hooks. Cheque the combo packs to become the best deal.

Once yous screw in your wall and wind your yarn, the fun part starts! I spent hours meticulously color-matching my enormous stash. Information technology was interesting to notice what colors I have and wonder whether that ways I don't apply them or like to buy them.

So many peg board attachments exist, that you'll start rethinking all your storage systems. I created runway by laying dowels across peg board hooks and hung some IKEA storage cups from them. I besides hung some IKEA cloth baskets. You lot can even lay your long knitting needles across peg board hooks.

With a cozy chair and a practiced lamp nearby, you lot can fifty-fifty knit or crochet off the wall!

Installing my yarn wall simply took an afternoon and was super gratifying. I tin can't stop taking pictures with information technology. Knitting and crocheting in my little nook is and then invigorating at present. Everything is instantly attainable and a sure-fire to put abroad. When people come up over they're in awe. Personally, I'm in awe of all my empty closet space!

What yarn storage ideas do yous currently use? I'd love to see and swap ideas! Tag your Instagram pics with #knitsforlife to show me or tweet them to me @knitsforlife.

All this knitting and crocheting in my new studio nook has been productive. Coming upward I'1000 posting a gratuitous leg warmer pattern for those of you notwithstanding weathering out the cold, and for the lucky ones enjoying spring, a geometric crochet bracelet photo tutorial (in neon colors!) using embroidery floss. Catch them by adding me to your Feedly or Bloglovin' RSS feed, or following me on Facebook.

Until next fourth dimension!

xxxo,

Lorna

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