This is a simple way I use for children to get their own yarn and to help keep the yarn organized in the process…..
I call this my yarn machine. It is very basic – you just drop a ball of yarn (make sure it is a ball) in a tissue box then thread one end of the yarn through either the top of the box or through a hole in the side of the box…
These boxes are actually taped together so I can pick up the entire unit and put it away…
I use the tissue boxes as individual boxes too like when we made our spider webs yesterday…
I was going to paint or cover each box with paper the same color as yarn in the box but decided that it was fine like it is for now. The kids can easily tell which color of yarn is in each box based on the thread that is coming out of the box…
So – there you have it! My DIY Yarn Machine:)
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Great idea to tape them all together to move as a unit. 🙂
I have them set up on a shelf and by taping them together – they don’t dump over or get lost:)
I really like this idea because I never know what to do with my yarn so it doesn’t get unrolled into a big mess!
I am glad you like it!
Lovely!
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Brilliant, Deborah! I love it!!
Thank you Jackie!
Oh, I love ideas that make life simpler. No more grumpy untangling messes! Ta
Haha! For sure!
thanks, deborah, for mentioning it because we’re making your spider webs today and I was wondering how to let them self-serve on the yarn. I wonder if I can use the long tissue boxes and stick two or three different colors in there.
I hope the spider webs went well!
I think I will try this idea to keep my yarn tamed when I’m knitting at home too!
Could work for lots of different reasons!
How absolutely brilliant!
Thank you:)
Great idea!
Thanks Karen!
That, Deborah, is the cleverest thing I ever saw. I have been keeping a too close reign on the yarn because it gets tangled too easily and it is super difficult to untangle it. So the girls cant do yarn craft without my tight control. This is a great idea to implement, maybe with milk cartons on a smaller scale. I’ll post once I get it up. Thanks
Haha – there are probably lots of ways to vary the idea – go for it and loosen up those reins!
Adorable and practical 🙂
Thank you Marcia:)
You know, Deborah, my mom made something like this years ago for her garden twine. She used a small coffee can and put a small hole in the lid. I even now have it at school to use with our garden twine, but it NEVER occurred to me to use it for our yarn. I swear, I avoid using yarn sometimes because while I’m not afraid of messes, I seem to have a phobia about tangles (and the subsequent waste). THANK YOU!
Tom – I must admit that keeping yarn out and about for the kids has always been something I avoided because of having to deal with tangles and balls of yarn unrolling throughout the room. It always seemed like so much work, so I can relate to your tangle phobia. When I sat down to try and figure out how to keep the yarn from becoming such a headache, it dawned on me that I just needed a container with a hole and I came up with a tissue box. I have had the same balls of yarn in my… Read more »