How To Store Circular Knitting Needles

I've had it in my mind for a long fourth dimension now that I need a amend manner to store my knitting needles, especially at present that I have commission projects on the become as well as my ain knitting and can never find needles when I want them. I needed a proper circular needle organiser … this is what I've made – and I'm so pleased with the consequence!

Previously, my needles had been stored in whichever project bags I was using and this tin …

It'due south a very nice tin and I like it considering information technology looks like our Aga (admitting the incorrect color and with an extra door) – just as I've acquired more needles, it'southward go more than difficult to see what I've got (which is not helped at all by my leaving needles in project bags instead of putting them away). The only good matter is that I go along the needle packets so that I can put them abroad in the right sized pack to make it easier to detect again – although that isn't always very helpful when I don't know where the needles are in the offset place.

Too in the tin is a lilliputian bundle that came free with a knitting magazine where I go on my cable needles, and a zipped pouch that small daughter fabricated for which has crochet hooks in it, and my Knitty patron stickers which I'm actually very proud to have and which shouldn't be stuck in a tin can. It's no wonder I buy more needles because I recollect I haven't got enough of the size that I need …

So I decided that enough was enough and I needed a Proper Organization.

I did a bit of research on the cyberspace and to be honest, I wasn't particularly inspired by what was coming upwards. I did think near making a fabric gyre, or perhaps looking on Etsy or another website to see if I could see one I liked, but a cloth roll has never actually appealed to me and I knew there would be something that would suit me better.

Finally, I found a blog post through a Pinterest search looking close to what I wanted and knew I had establish my reply. All I needed was a box, some menu and I was off!

The blog post I read uses a plastic box and I looked around for something suitable that we might accept had around the firm for quite a while before realising that I didn't actually want to use a plastic box at all, and I certainly didn't desire to buy one! Nosotros're trying to reduce the amount of plastic that's coming into the house and I wasn't planning to replace the needle storage box once I'd made it, and then why non go for something a fleck nicer?

I plant this box on Amazon, and it wasn't equally expensive as I had expected – some of the plastic boxes that I'd seen were merely as much if not more expensive, and I liked the look of this one much more than. It's 30 cm x 20 cm x 14 cm (12 inches x vii.nine inches 10 five.5 inches) and that'south just the right size for the longest package of DPNs that I have, and so I knew that everything should fit in.

I chose one without handle holes because information technology sits side-on on my bookshelf and I thought it would await neater without being able to run into the contents through a handle hole.

The next job was to stain information technology. I could accept left information technology in the natural state that it arrived in, merely having recently been re-staining our staircase and thoroughly enjoying watching the wood soak upwards the stain, I decided to stain the box as well. I used Ronseal Danish Oil; hands enough bought at a hardware store and recommended past a decorator at one time as an culling to teak oil. The box soaked it upwardly!

The wood was obviously very dry so I decided to exercise the within as well.

Later on that, I added some felt strips to the bottom where it would sit on the bookshelf so that it wouldn't scratch the woods.

(It looks wonky on the right hand side in this photograph but it isn't in real life!)

After that, it was time to fill the box.

The blog post I read suggested using cut down cardboard folders, but I couldn't find anything that would be the right size so I decide I would just brand my own. I bought some A4 menu and cutting it to the right size to make a folder that would slot into the box and hold the needle packet. A4 card is 21 cm x 29.7 cm (8.3 inches x 11.7 inches); I measured 11 cm (4.3 inches) across the shorter side and scored down the length then that it would fold and leave a tab for me to attach a sticker, and I took 2 cm (0.78 inches) off the width then that the card would sit down comfortably in the box.

I decided to split my needles into fixed circulars (both short and long), DPNs, cables (for my interchangeable needles) and needle tips, and I was surprised at how many in that location were! By the fourth dimension you lot've got a few dissimilar sizes of each blazon (for example, I've got ii.5mm needles in 23 cm, 25 cm, 30 cm, 80 cm and 100 cm sizes), there are quite a number of little folders needed!

I had a lovely time with the characterization maker! I originally bought mine from Aldi a few years ago when it was on offer and information technology's had plenty of use, specially since large daughter went to university and felt the need to label everything that moved (and some things that didn't!). Fortunately, the refill tapes aren't too expensive!

I think these little folders wait pretty adept!

The next thing to practise was to put them all into the box and put the needles into the right folder.

And those Knitty patron stickers? In that location's a home for them too!

I was feeling rather pleased with myself, I take to tell you …

and and so I remembered that the point of this system was to tell me where all my needles were. I headed off to the computer and made myself these inserts …

I used a divide one for each of the needles and I'm hoping that they should assistance me to keep track of which projects my needles are being used for at any once. I have so many on the go! If y'all think they'd be useful for your needle organisation system, you tin can download the folio here.

And then there is information technology, my cracking new needle organiser! It's seen plenty of utilise already and I take to tell you that information technology's such a relief to know where my needles are!

I promise this might exist something useful for you to make too

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