Tangled Bits to Tidy Bobbins

How do you store your left over small amounts of yarn?

 

When you need just a little length to make a little flower adornment, or to embroider a face on to a toy you have just completed,

do you have to search through a tangle of bits and small balls?

 

It's so frustrating when you know you have just the colour you need .... somewhere .... but where ? !

 

So here is my solution ~

 

           

 

BEFORE                   ~                   AFTER

 

I decided to tidy up by bag of small balls today.

I started by cutting out some bobbin shapes from card ~

 

 

 Then I wrapped each length of yarn onto a bobbin ~

 

 

catching the loose end into a 1cm cut made at the top ~ to keep each neat & tidy and to stop them from unravelling and tangling up

 

 

I found a pretty basket to put them into ~

 

tidy bobbins

 

 

Now when I am looking for a particular colour it will be so much easier to find