Favorite Finds: Yarn Storage Ideas
My yarn stash has gotten pretty out of control. I just don’t really have a good way of storing it all. This is kinda of embarrassing to admit, but 4 of the 6 drawers in my dresser are filled with yarn. Plus I have a cabinet that is 1/3 full of yarn. Plus I have this basket and 3 of these filled. So off to Pinterest I went to look for ideas!
I immediately fell in love with this little cart above! It’s the Raskog cart from Ikea and it’s so perfect! I’m picturing it with yarn on the top level and the others, I’d use for projects I’m working on. And how perfect that it has wheels!
I love this shelf which is actually a wine rack! Only I don’t think it would work as well for me. I like having my yarn sorted by type, not color, so it wouldn’t look as pretty :(
I feel the same about this shelf but I do really like that the cubbies on these are so small. One of the things I don’t like about my cabinet is that all the yarn just gets piled on the shelves and always ends up falling when I’m digging for something.
I think these are several of the Benno DVD towers from Ikea.
I bet this rack made from shoe racks would be a cheap option! It made me think, how cool would it be to have a closet for your yarn and you could just have these on the walls?!
This seems super practical to me because I prefer having my yarn in drawers rather than on shelves.
After deciding that I’d rather have drawers, I went looking through Ikea for ideas. I really like the Kallax shelves because they have these baskets that fit perfectly in the cubbies! There are also drawer inserts but I think the baskets look nice. I know you can’t really see your yarn this way but that’s just my preference. I like having everything away.
How do you store your yarn? Do you have any cool shelves or anything?
P.S. All of the photos in this post are linked to their sources. Click em if you wanna know more about them! :)
I’m exactly like you…I love all the pretty ways people display theirs, but I broke down and bought the 4×2 Expedit (previous version of the Kallax) and I used pull-out bins as well (mine are black cloth) to sort my yarn by type :)
I store mine in my living room, so I don’t want all the “mess” to be seen :)
My aunt gave me a Japanese dresser which are different than American dressers. It works wonderfully for my yarn! The top has doors that open up to drawer like shelves that pull out. It makes it so you can see your yarn. I wish I could add a pic to to show you!
I freakin adore the first option, especially the color! Right now I have my “nice yarn” aka expensive stuff, or home spun stuff from my mom, in a big old basket on my bookshelf in the living room. The rest I have in plastic bins…oh so charming. I need something cool like that!!!
Very beautiful!
I wish my home looked like any of these, just so I could look at all the pretty colors, haha! I don’t knit much so I just have a little bit of yarn tucked away in a box.