One of the first things I noticed when we moved into our current flat is that I was going to needa good solid way of storing my stash. Originally we had found this really cool pvc pipe and nylon hanging basket storage thingy that used to be Ryan’s. I thought yes that’s perfect absolutely perfect! At first it was, then I bought more yarn, and more yarn and mooore yarn! The weight of all that yarn slowly caused the frame to torque and twist, while the bags started to rip I started to have to put less and less stuff in the baskets and instead on the floors next to it!

This is what it looked like!

I knew it was time for a new system but what? I started to have a look around and besides your generic large tupperware boxes with lids I wasn’t finding anything I thought would work well. Then I was browsing one of my favorite stores, Plastic Box, which is a lot like the container store in San Francisco, when i found something that would work! There were these stackable baskets that were partially open on one side and seemed really sturdy. The best part was they were affordable! So I started out getting four of them and was able to turn that previous picture into this!

I would still like to get two more of them so that I can put all my UFO/WIP’s in one instead of staking them on top of the whole thing and also so I have one to put needles, gauge rulers, and other assesories into instead of having to put them in random places with the yarn. they also have stable ways to conntct them next to each other! While I was in an organizational mood I made my embroidery threads go from this.

to this.

I love being organized it helps the creativity flow so much easier. When you want to do something with something everything is all right where it should be!