Yarn stash storage

I keep telling myself, with regards to blogging, that if you don't have anything much to say, don't say anything; be one of those awesome blogs that every now and then surprises you with a post that was worth waiting for and worth reading. And yet ... Here’s a post you’ve all been waiting for: ways to store yarn. One the yarn-craft readers, home-organisation freaks or interior-design type folks might find mildly interesting.

I have previously mentioned that I have a bit of a yarn stash happening at the moment, mostly as a result of a spell of ebay madness. But I plan on working my way through it before I buy anymore. The problem is of course, when you rent a share flat and most of your personal earthly belongings are in your bedroom, what to do with it. So I did some thinking about this (and other things that need storing), and last year bought a wooden cube bookshelf, with eight cubes (a real wooden one – IKEA lets me down with their particleboard furniture). I had been eyeing it off in a shop near my place, then that shop had a closing down sale, which was good for me in that moment. However, I do think it looks a bit messy just having wool piled in there, unless of course it’s all full balls in beautiful colours, nicely stacked.

Apartment Therapy recently featured a post on yarn storage options, to my delight, but see in this picture, the wool in cube shelving? - messy, that’s what I think. Some of those shelves look like they'd be always dropping things, and in my experience, they do drop things.

I was inspired, however, by the idea of using some magazine holders in some of the cubes to keep some of the smaller messier stuff sorted, and also to store patterns, guitar music etc. Like this idea below. I do have some of these baskets from IKEA on some shelves (they are made in crochet, which I thought was apt, and I didn't want regular baskets to scratch the wood) and I quite like these magazine holders. The Apartment Therapy post has some other cool options too, but they are perhaps not as great for rental properties or smaller spaces.