How to organise your yarn stash

If your yarn stash in a mess, tangled all up or if you can't find where your project is this post is perfect for you. I too used to have trouble finding yarn and projects here are 4 ways to organise your yarn stash along with a few ways you could store your yarn.

[Start of image description: A photo of a knitting basket with green and blue yarn along with knitting needles and a bag of needle point protectors. Above is a white rectangle with the words "Essentials" and underneath is the words "How to organise your yarn stash". End of image description.]

This post was updated in September 2022, my yarn stash is now a few baskets like the one above and one later in this post.

I am not an affiliate of any yarn company, promoting or advertising for any yarn company.  Any yarn bands displaying the company's name are unintentional.

[Start of image description: a photo of a plastic container with green, blue, purple, red and yellow. Underneath is a sage green rectangle with a red boarder inside is the words "How to organise your yarn stash" by Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits. Underneath is six plastic containers of yarn sorted by into groups based on colour and yarn weight. End of image description]

Ways you can sort your stash

There is so many different ways you could store and sort your yarn stash.  You could organise your yarn stash by colour, fibre, projects or by yarn weight. How is your stash currently sorted?

Colour

This is quite a creative way to organise your stash and makes it look a bit like a rainbow depending on what variety of colours you have in your yarn stash.  Using this way, all yarn of the same and similar colours are grouped together regardless of fibre or yarn weight.  

[Image description: A photo of a wooden floor with six plastic containers with yarn sorted by colour. The container at the back left is red, orange and yellow yarn. The container in the middle back is brown yarn and the container at the back right is grey, white and cream yarn.  The container on the front left is purple, peach and pink yarn. The middle front is of blue and green yarn then the front right is blue and turquoise yarn. End of image description.]

 

Yarn fibre

Sorting yarn by fibre comes in very handy if you knit with quite a few different yarn fibres.  Using this method you could also group the yarn fibres by natural fibres, synthetic fibres or animal fibres 

To learn more about fibres visit 3 different types of yarn fibres

[Start of image description: A photo of a knitting basket  in the long grass. There are balls of red, green, brown, yellow and blue yarn. End of image description.] 

Organising your yarn stash by project

This method of organising your stash is helpful if you have yarn for projects you want to knit. 

Handy tip - Print out the pattern for the project you want to knit and put it in with the yarn so you don't forget what you bought the yarn for. 

[Start of image description a wooden floor with two plastic containers.  Inside both of these are bags of knitting projects, some started and others not yet started. End of image description.]

Organise your yarn stash by yarn weight

Using the yarn weight method to sort your yarn makes it easier to find what yarn weight you need for a pattern.  The bins below are from left back 4ply, back right 8ply, front left 10ply, and front right 12ply. 

Ways to store your yarn

Now that your yarn is sorted how are you going to store it?  Here is a list of a few ways you could store your yarn along with some photos of these. 

• Baskets
• Fabric bags
• Storage containers
• Knitting bags
• Shelves
• Bookcase
• Cupboard
• In a bowl
• Cookie jar

[Start of image description: A basket with balls of green and blue yarn inside, a red bag of needle point protectors, bags of needles and a blue pencil case with knitting essentials in it. End of image description.]

[Start of image description: Plastic containers with projects put into bags and placed inside in order of which ones need to be finished first. End of image description.]

[Start of image description: Two storage containers with plastic container drawers in the container on the left is the top a drawer of scrap yarn, DK yarn for 3 storage containers and 10 ply yarn. The other one is craft supplies for other crafts in 4 of the drawers and the bottom one is of 12 ply yarn. End of image description.]

Hope this post helped you sort out your yarn stash and organise your stash better or helped with some ideas of how you could organise your yarn stash later on.  If you have just started knitting a tote bag or basket would be perfect!!! How are you planning on organising your yarn stash? and storing it?

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[Start of image description: A photo of a knitting basket with green and blue yarn along with knitting needles and a bag of needle point protectors. Underneath is a sage green rectangle with the words "How to organise your yarn stash".  At the bottom are the words "here are four ways to organise your yarn stash by colour, fibre, projects or by yarn weight. Along with a few ways you could store your yarn. Such as baskets, tote bags, clear containers, storage containers, knitting bags, shelves, bookcases or a cupboard". End of image description.]

Thank you for visiting Cozy Woodland Cottage Knits!

Have fun organising your yarn and happy knitting. Don't forget to look at knitting essentials for more posts like this one. 

[Start of image description: Arjaye's signature with a blue feather floating in the air. Below is a meadow with yellow flowers, a basket of pastel yarn and a hedgehog next to it. In the middle are two toadstools and a black cat running through the grass. End of image description.]

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