Comments on: Top Ten Places to Store Yarn

By: Andi

Andi — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:15:17 +0000

It’s gonna sound crazy but I have more yarn than shoes! I bought an inexpensive over the door shoe keeper. It comes with 2 hooks and you hang it in the back of your room’s door. It has slots in it to hold 30 pairs of shoes, but I have it full to the hilt with YARN! It has worked out so well, that I’m thinking… hey I need another one of those “shoe” organizers for my STASH!

By: thursday

thursday — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:28:00 +0000

That’s hilarious! I used to wonder why it was called a “stash” – until I found myself shoving yarn into the oddest places. Like my desk at work. And my underwear drawer. And in random bags in the closet. My house is very small and I’ve got cats (which makes things super difficult – everything actually has to be enclosed)! I haven’t bought a bigger purse yet – but that’d be next!

By: Marianne Y

Marianne Y — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:43:21 +0000

I love all of the comments on this topic! Dr Jackie’s comments about her husband’s being a space cadet, but that it is her daughter who complains about all of ‘yarn” boxes coming into the house, sound kind of like our house, for the most part. My husband is pretty much as space cadet, too. And, it is my youngest son who does the complaining about more yarn coming in! And that’s even with the first pair of socks that I am knitting are for him! Kids!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:29:01 +0000

I love the light fixture idea! My cookie jars are all filled with dog cookies, so I keep my stash in large glass vases on the diningroom table…as pretty as flowers and no wilting! Plus looking at it every day helps (sometimes..ok, so not really) remind me that I really don’t need more yarn…or at least lets me know which colors I might still “need”.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:50:55 +0000

Aaaauuuuggghhh!!!! You have NEW yarns in…..and they’re ALL gorgeous….and I want EVERY SINGLE ONE. Well, okay, not every one, but …most….

I like the comment about the boat. My dh bought an airplane last year, and despite the rolled eyes from my children when I acquire more yarn, he very diplomatically reminds them (and me!) that he will NEVER complain about my yarn purchases. I’m the actual control when it comes to my stash (one small, one medium rubbermaid bin), because I really DO like to use up what I’ve got first!! There’s just so many pretty colors…sigh.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:29:11 +0000

My roommate and I have this great arrangement that precludes me from having to hide the stash. I say nothing about the 700+ DVDs that line THE ENTIRE WALL in the living room, and he says nothing about the encroaching fiber invasion.

However, since I dragged it all into the living room to photograph and catalog it on Ravelry, he’s been giving the ~~mountain~~ pile anxious, worrisome looks… like he’s afraid the yarn is going to eat the cat or something.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:22:38 +0000

Cute pictures. My yarn lives in a bunch of those big plastic containers you get coffee in these days. They stack well, stash in hidden corners easily, and you can always put one or two in the pantry in a pinch. I wash them really well, but everything does smell just a bit like coffee when I first take it out, but I like that smell and it fades quickly. Plus I’m recycling the containers instead of buying something new.

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:10:22 +0000

I thought all your stash ideas were great! Makes playing instruments intersting, I’m sure!! The problem with me hiding my stash is that I forget where I have put it!! Right now I have some very nice yarn that I can’t find because I hid it so well!!!!! (Kind of like when you hide 60 Easter eggs, and only 55 get discovered…. They are out there somewhere….).

By: Cathy

Cathy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:42:58 +0000

You guys all have me laughing!! I’m still stashing in my closet!! Time to come out!!

By: freecia

freecia — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:35:17 +0000

If the trunk of my car wasn’t full of books, it would be full of yarn. I do have a mental checklist for “furniture to get” and a really nice display cabinet or five for yarn is high up on there. You know, things with small cubbies (shoe size, 8/10″ cube, or triangle seems to work well) and a nice finish, possibly with a glass front to help keep dust out. Yarniture! Or baskets drilled to the wall. Either way, I’m going to have an entire wall full in a main room, display it like the Art it is. Then you know, go stock up on more colors! And pegs. Yes. A wall that looks like a very upscale yarn store