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Yarn Storage
Cut the top off a 2 liter soda bottle and place a skein of yarn into it. Slip the end of the yarn up through the hole in the top you just cut off and then tape the top back in place on the lower portion of the bottle.
A storage ottaman is a great place to store knitting needles, crochet hooks, accessories, patterns and a place to keep your current knitting project until your next knitting time.
Store yarn in 5-gallon ice cream containers (well cleaned of course).
Try sorting leftover yarn by weight rather than color.
Place patterns in plastic sleeves and store in loose-leaf notebooks; keep a different color notebook for each category of pattern.
Tool boxes with shallow drawers can easily store knitting needles and supplies.
Store double pointed needles and smaller knitting supplies in a canvas pencil case from an office supply store.
Place yarn, books, and patterns in storage boxes with a number code and keep track of numbers on index cards.
Old dressers are useful for storing larger quantities of yarn or other craft projects neatly and out of sight.
Computer databases are available to help organize yarn, needles, and patterns
