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The most common questions I receive all revolve around my yarn wall – what’s the best yarn storage, what supplies did I use, how do you make a yarn wall, is it hard, do I like it, etc. I talk a lot about how I organize my yarn with a yarn wall and recently, I did a bi-annual reorganize and restock round which I captured to share on Tiktok and youtube.
Even the best yarn storage systems will come a little unraveled after repeatedly dipping into the stash daily to work on projects and the yarn wall is no exception. I’ve found that I can let the wall get messier than I could my previous yarn storage system (shelves and bins) because everything stays pretty together an untangled, but eventually, it needs a little work.
For a reorganization and re-stock, I utilize pretty much the same tools as I originally used, with a few steps in between.
Step 1: Thorough Review and Inventory
Okay, not so thorough – it’s not like I have a spreadsheet of what yarn I have in stock. But a quick glance will tell me if I’m running low on colors and also gives me the opportunity to pluck out yarns that need to be put through the yarn winder again.
Step 2: Wind it up!
I use my yarn winder and turn on my favorite crafty Youtube videos and wind my yarn into nice little cakes. I don’t wind too tightly so that I don’t cause any damage to the yarn — it’s something I read somewhere but personally, I’ve never damaged my yarn even when I wound it into tight little tubes.
Step 3: Secure.
I utilize hair clips to secure my yarn cakes. This just keeps the end nice and tucked in which is important to me because too many little strings hanging from the wall would make me need to re-organize more than just a couple of times per year. In the past I have also used skein coats which I like quite well too.
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