Hi. My name is Nancy S. and I’m a yarn hoarder and I have a serious yarn storage problem! 🙂
If you work with fiber (yarn), I’m sure that you can definitely identify with this problem.
Over the last year as I’ve become more serious about starting a fiber arts business I’ve been buying a fair amount (ok a LOT) of yarn from which to build an inventory of finished goods to offer for sale. So, when my husband asked me what I wanted for Christmas — I told him yarn storage!
I have a fairly big house, but it lacks storage space; so I’ve been carefully packing away my yarn in plastic storage totes in the extra bedroom all the while hoping that no one would come to visit because they would only have a very narrow path in which to move around in that room.
I have a very nice (but very odd shaped) and well lit area upstairs where I do the final assembly and blocking of my finished handcrafted items. I think it was originally a nursery.
Despite the fact that this area is very well lit (the photo below was taken on a cloudy day) and I have a big work table, it was a total disaster because I had no storage space. This is what I’ve been working in for the last year.
My husband, Ben is a software programmer, but over the years he has become a very good worker. He went and bought the lumber to build me a shelving unit for yarn storage. Here we are getting ready to assemble it and of course Max, our boxer, had to check everything out.
Below, we have the center dividers placed into the base are are getting ready to add the top.
Next, we added shelves to make cubbies to hold yarn.
Below is the finished unit all in place. each cubby is about 13″ square and 18″ deep and the finished unit fits perfectly in that corner.
Now comes the fun part! I pull out all of my totes filled with yarn. I wonder if it will all fit!!!!
OOPS! I have too much yarn for the storage unit! Oh my. Well, I do have a large empty drawer for what’s left….thank goodness!
Here’s everything put back together, even though the table needs some tidying up. I’m thrilled though as now I can see just about all of the yarn that I have to choose from when I start a project instead of having to dig through storage totes.
A big THANK YOU to my husband! And a very Merry Christmas to all 🙂
This is the best Christmas present for you!
Indeed it is Linda! I love being able to “see” what I have to work with and have it organized without having to dig through storage totes 🙂 Ben really did do a lovely job on the cubby shelving.