Keep your skeins and balls of yarn from becoming one big tangled mess.
Steps
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Separate each skein or ball. Make sure that each skein is one long piece of yarn, and not a whole bunch of small pieces.
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Place each ball/skein of the same color/weight/texture in a Ziploc bag.
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Place a label on the outside of each bag with the yarn's weight, fiber content, and yardage clearly indicated.
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Place your bags into bins or boxes. You may also want to use stacking crates if you have a lot of yarn. You also may want to bag your yarn by weight (fingering, worsted, sport, chunky...etc) if you are really organized.
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Buy knitting needle organizers. These come in handy when you are looking for two needles of the same size.
Tips
- If you have a lot of short pieces of yarn (of the same weight), try making a scarf with all sorts of colored stripes of different widths.
- When you put the bags into the bins, sort them so it'll be easy to find a certain yarn again. You can sort by fiber, by weight, by color, whatever you think will be useful. I sort by fiber and by weight, so, for example, all my wool lace weight yarn is in one bin.
Things You'll Need
- Yarn
- Ziploc bags
- Labels
- Permanent marker
- Bins
