It took a long time to decide on the best yarn storage for me. There has been a lot of trial, error, and frustration. Three yeas ago I finally landed on the perfect solution and I’ve been using it daily for long enough that I feel comfortable highly recommending it for your yarn too.
Be sure to scroll to the bottom of this post to watch a video answering the top questions about my yarn wall.
I love yarn. I buy yarn with no projects in mind, just because I love the style, the feel, the colors. In the past year I’ve amassed quite the yarn collection waiting to be turned into something fabulous. This caused me to seek out the best yarn storage that I could find.
As with my entire craft room – I like things where I can see them. I’m inspired by supplies that are in my view and things tossed in drawers and bins rarely get used. So the first requirement was set.
I reviewed everything I could find on Pinterest and the web and decided that while my craft room is 12X12 (ish?) which is an okay size, It’s quite packed with all of my crafts and hobbies, so I have limited space. I needed craft storage for small spaces. The second requirement had been set.
I didn’t want to mess with hanging cubes and shelves, I wanted simple so I went for two peg boards and pegs and I’m telling you, this is the most inspirational wall in my craft room. It’s the best yarn organization I could have imagined.
The best part, is that my husband had it all hung in about hour.
Yarn Storage Supplies
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I started with 2 pieces of 24X48″ white pegboard. For no reason at all, I hung them landscape one on top of the other. This gives me 4′ X 4′ of yarn storage space and while it’s now busting at the seems it is plenty for any crocheter.
The peg board needs to sit off the wall a it so that you can stick accessories through it. In the past that has been a real brat to do (I’ve had pegboards before) but the pegboard wall mounting spacers make hanging a pegboard breezy.
I found these pegs and they work perfectly for caked yarn storage. They are 3 inches by one quarter of an inch and come in a pack of 50. I used two and a half which tells me that the system stores about 120 cakes of yarn. That’s a lot of yarn storage – much more than any yarn bins or totes.
You can’t really store yarn skeins in this system without caking them (that’s the only downfall, if it can be considered a minus) it takes some time to cake yarn but the end result is amazing. I use this yarn winder but I have my eye on the jumbo yarn winder, too.
If you don’t have a yarn winder, you can get by with a Nostepinne to wind your yarn – you can even wind yarn on a cardboard tube or your own fingers.
Yarn Wall Supplies
If you decide to use this yarn storage system, I’d love to see it! Tag me on instagram @hookandpaperco
Yarn Wall FAQ video
My yarn wall comes up a lot on my social channel, in this video I address some common questions that you may be asking, too.
