6 Creative and Stylish Knitting Yarn Storage Ideas
Who says knitting yarn needs to be tucked away in storage boxes or closets? A creative look around your home or your local flea market can give you stylish knitting yarn storage solutions that inspire your projects and boost the ambiance of your home. We’ve collected six creative, stylish, and inspiring ways to store your knitting yarns in full technicolor.
bitsandbobbins uses a gorgeous, color-coded library card catalog a as sewing and knitting yarn storage center, with knitting needles in glass jars on top.
With 14 coffee cans, faux bois contact paper, contact cement, and a few screws, Lee from leethal made an ingenious, Ready Made magazine inspired knitting yarn cubbie center. What an inspiring and beautiful way to store your knitting yarn!
If you knit more than you drink wine, then why not turn your wine rack into a pleasing way to display your knitting yarn? We love how Prudent Baby‘s knitting yarn has completely transformed an empty wine rack. Cheers!
While not necessarily an ideal knitting yarn storage solution for those with robust collections, Simple Organized Living‘s idea of using vintage suitcases is a splendid way to manage Works In Progress or those that you are taking on the go.
Think outside of the box – or the shoe for that matter – when looking for knitting needle storage ideas! Artist Dottie Angel repurposed these lovely wooden clogs as a charming storage solution for your knitting needles.
Look to any of your antiqued, weathered cabinets as a stunning way to display your spindles of knitting yarn, as ABC Dragoo did.
How do you store your knitting yarn? Please do tell in the comments! We’d also love to see photos and possibly feature them on KnittingYarn.com!
I love these ideas and will definitely have to reference your site on my blog next week!
I think that the point you raise here about class (ie, seinrneg attitudes towards the knitter with straight needles and mass market yarn) underwrites so much of contemporary knitting culture, which very rarely acknowledges its own elitism. The divide between Sirdar and Wollmeise is as pertinent as that which existed, a hundred and fifty years ago, between the world of the leisured drawing-room tippet knitter, and the working class woman churning out socks for a penny a pair. The jolly online community’ (aka bourgeois drawing room) is actually very exclusionary and exclusive . . .