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I'm turning a former bedroom into my new craft room and am looking for ideas on ribbon storage. Because this is a small room, I'd like to use wall space. Any ideas out there?
Can't help you on the wall space (although I've heard that several people put up rain gutters to hold rolls of ribbon) because I don't have any and like to consolidate as much as possible, so I take all of my ribbon off the rolls and do this:
That's actually an older picture from when I had my ribbons in the small 3-drawer desktop units from Sterilite. I've switched from the bit of tape to hold them to the dollar store clear hair rubber bands (brand name ones are too strong and wrinkle the ribbon). Also, I've consolidated even more now and keep them in the embroidery floss organizers like this:
I currently have three of these boxes and keep them tipped up on their sides on a shelf of my bookcase. They take very little room, are easy to pull in and out, hold A LOT of ribbon, and I can see everything at a glance. They're on sale right now at Joann's, but they're cheap even at full price...
I've saved quite a few from Pinterest. Unfortunately, some of the links are broken so here are pictures.
The first one looks really quick and easy and the link works.
Here's a vote for rain gutters, especially if you want to use your wall space. I like them because they are easy to get a roll out to bring to your desk. Putting the spools on rods makes it hard to get one off the rod. I think I have a picture . . .
I agree with jkstampin!! I have tons of units from Organize More and they are excellent units!! I love them because they come finished in white. I like everything to match and I don't like to paint (except for crafty painting).
I can't believe I forgot to buy a few of these at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo that was in town recently. They had terrific deals at the show. I tried it out and it was easy. The spooled ribbon took up so much less space than ribbon on the holder it comes with.
In any case, their ribbon holders can be mounted on a rail on the wall. You spool your ribbon into a compact circle, pop it into a compartment in a case, and the cases can go in a little storage case - or on the rail.
And from a user: https://m.
Oddly, I can't find the rail but will keep looking. You can order from here - and they do mention dimensions since they have different sizes. Search results for: 'ribbon spooler'
The disks are for dividing a compartment into two if you have very narrow ribbon.
In case you want to see/play with the ribbon storage pieces live and in person, here's a list of shows where they'll be. And I noticed mention of a wall box coming soon, so maybe that's what I saw at the show and it isn't on the website yet. Or not, just a guess.
A customer left a hint to put double-sided tape - or a glue dot - on the outside where the end of the ribbon is, to make sure it doesn't roll back in.
A do-it-yourself idea: Some people use dowels to hang ribbon. One organizer I know uses extra long metal kabob skewers! : ) They're just rested on hooks on the wall. Very pretty and inexpensive.
I love the Organiza More ribbon storage too. For me the only drawback was when I had just a little ribbon left - that's what I liked the spooler and cases for.
I had saved the link for this person's ribbon storage since it looked so neat - and she uses bobbins like in the photo Sue posted, except the ones in the link are larger. They apparently are no longer available, but you can find some that are a little bigger than the smallest ones, or cut your own out of chipboard, etc. They can hang on rings like shown, or put in boxes, again, like Sue does.
The bobbins are called floss bobbins, generally, and some folks on Etsy have them, plus Amazon. I found some called yarn bobbins too, and they're larger. A very nice person on Etsy sent me a sample of hers; if you're interested I'll post her shop name.
Back to the ribbon storage I saw at the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo. I wrote to the company asking about the wall piece, and they already responded!
"No. . .you are not hallucinating ! ! The item you are looking for is our WALL BOX. It is such a new product that we have introduced it at the shows and are in the process of photographing it and making videos to put on the website."
I may go to the Lancaster show, and if I do and the photo isn't on the website yet, I'll take a photo, unless they'd prefer not for proprietary reasons. If I recall, it's basically a strip of stainless steel. But I could be (and often am) wrong.
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I don't have wall storage. For what it's worth here's what I do.
I like to repurpose. Here's a picnic basket I had for a different use and turned it into ribbon storage. The little case I did buy at Michael's to hold ribbon.
They are stored in ROYGBIV order.
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Mine aren't on spools or bobbins or anything (except the baker's twine that came that way) - they're just wound into a coil and held in place with a clear rubber band from Dollar Tree. I don't want to take credit for something I'm not actually doing... ;)
Mine aren't on spools or bobbins or anything (except the baker's twine that came that way) - they're just wound into a coil and held in place with a clear rubber band from Dollar Tree. I don't want to take credit for something I'm not actually doing... ;)
Some years ago I saw this ribbon storage shared by a member of SCS. I'm sorry, I forgot your name, but thank you once again. It only uses paperclips and tiny clothes-pins. They are on a coat-hangers and these are hanging in my wardrobe.
Great idea! Where do you find clothes hangers with the bottom that you can unlatch?
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Some years ago I saw this ribbon storage shared by a member of SCS. I'm sorry, I forgot your name, but thank you once again. It only uses paperclips and tiny clothes-pins. They are on a coat-hangers and these are hanging in my wardrobe.
Hi Susan, happy to read you like this storage system.
I live in The Netherlands but I did a google search with the words
'clothespins tiny usa selling'
for you and google found many also on amazon ~and even in lovely colours~.
Have fun storing your ribbons.
I like the gutter system, myself. It's easier for me if the spools of ribbon aren't attached or on a dowel or anything. I tend to grab a whole roll and play with it on my projects for awhile first and I need to be able to hold it and unwind a bunch to see if I like it...
Mine is from Simply Renee, they made the clip-it-up stuff. Not sure if they're still around but you can get an idea of how it looks. You can tell that I have a bit of a surplus there on the right side LOL. Plus I like the clippies along the bottom rail, those are really handy.
I don't have their ribbon storage unit (because i want ribbon to be super-compact) but have one of their ink pad storage units, and love it. Really nice people, too, small business to support. : )
The bigger section will hold 4-6 spools of baker's twine, actually. You can use name-brand clear rubber bands if you stretch them out first so they have more slack - I'm just lazy so the Dollar Tree ones save me a minute, lol! I was using freezer tape, but there was still a bit of residue when I took it off to use the ribbon - not good...
Another thing I did with ribbon once upon a time was screw tiny eye screws into the heads of the dollhead-type clothespins, put several on a book ring, and hang the book rings on cup hooks screwed into the underside of a shelf. Here's a visual:
I just used a straight pin to hold the end of the ribbon in place until I needed it (if you do this, get the finest pins you can find to avoid having holes in your ribbon).
I ended up just cutting some mid-weight cardboard (I found a source close by-I was asking about that before) into bobbin shapes and taking the ribbon off their original rolls. What a huge difference! Omgosh! Still in a plastic box but it used to be overflowing, etc. I also purged some ribbon I know I wont use (it had been a general ribbon box vs just what I use for cards) and now I have them in plastic bags groups as solids, patterns, specialities.
The cardboard isnt the strongest and it is bending but will definitely last long enough to use up the ribbon on it.
Tried to like your post, Suzanne, but I wasn't allowed. I was able to like your, Renee. I use the gutter system. So cheap at Lowe's or Home Depot. I love ribbon and have lots of it. Not so with wall space, so I use the back of my craft room door. I also devised a system to hold ribbon of small, but usable, amounts of ribbon wound around clothes pins. You can see it all in the attached picture.
I got an old VHD holder that I use. The regular ribbons slide in side ways. It holds 100 ribbon spools. (Not the wide ones.). All I have to do is grab whichever one that I want, use it and slide it right back in the slot. It is hanging on my wall and it is a life saver! After I use whatever I need, I either take a small bit of tape or slide a small head pin to keep the ribbon from unraveling. I tried to upload a picture but couldn't figure out how to do it. Sorry...
I probably should take my ribbons off their spools...maybe one day I actually will...but for now I like keeping them in the cardboard display racks I got for free at Michael's. Whenever I saw them almost empty at the store I asked if I could have them and they said yes. These ones sit under my standing height work station. I also have others stacked one on top of another leaning against a wall. They could be hung up as well.
I have my lace rolled up stored in cleaned salad boxes (the size of shoe boxes) like Sue's ribbon.
I have one of those ribbon rollers and love it.
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I probably should take my ribbons off their spools...maybe one day I actually will...but for now I like keeping them in the cardboard display racks I got for free at Michael's. Whenever I saw them almost empty at the store I asked if I could have them and they said yes. These ones sit under my standing height work station. I also have others stacked one on top of another leaning against a wall. They could be hung up as well.
I have my lace rolled up stored in cleaned salad boxes (the size of shoe boxes) like Sue's ribbon.
I have one of those ribbon rollers and love it.
I love your holders!!! Work just like my guttering, but yours were free and are all assembled to start. I like the ribbon on rolls (no creases) and the fact that you can grab an individual one without taking others off a rod. My cord comes off the rolls and gets wrapped around a cardboard rectangle and fit in a series of stacking shallow containers in a basket "drawer" that takes up much less room than when it was on rolls and is easier to see.
Thanks. I wanted to do the guttering storage but then found those. I like the accesability of the rolls too. I also like the way some store their ribbon hanging loose pulled through a ring of one sort or other even through the holes of a scarf holder. It looks so pretty and must be fun running the fingers through all the lush colours and textures. That wouldn't work very well for the 10 yard rolls though.
What I have found with the lace that I roll is that larger rolls tend to want to telescope out from the center of the the roll. I think the ribbon would do the same. There seem to be drawbacks for every storage type.
Great idea! Where do you find clothes hangers with the bottom that you can unlatch?
If you were thinking of this system, which is very accessible and pretty for average lengths of ribbon, you wouldn't need the hanger to open. The paper clips would be hung onto the horizontal rod of a regular hanger. If it started to sag you might have to tie a string from the rod to the top of the hanger for support. I did something similar with my plethora of fancy edge scissors. I hand sewed a piece of plastic canvas along the rod to have holes to put the paperclips through to stop them from sliding all to one side or the other. I stacked the hangers 3 high.
The clothes pins are a great idea and probably much cheaper than the metal hang clips from Ikea or the craft store.
I purchased different style glass containers from the dollar store. I, also, have jelly and coffee jars. My craft room is in my bedroom and jars live on the top of a bookshelf. They are coded as colors and sizes. I have a cat and that is why they are in their prospective containers.
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