crocheters - where do you keep your wool?

[mayfridaycomequickly]

... and hooks etc? I've just been taught the basics but I'm loving it and it's keeping me from eating so much crap on a night time

My wool and hooks are currently just sat on the sideboard.

I need something to keep them in and wondered if anyone had any ideas other than the ikea box I'm thinking of pinching from ds' room

Also - if you take your crochet out and about do you take it in anything? I stuffed mine in my handbag for a longish journey in the car but it'll get scruffy if I keep doing that!

[RoosterCogburn]

I have a chest of drawers that I store my yarn in (I have an embarrassing amount)
Whatever I am working on at the moment lives in a lidded box in the living room, it used to be in a plastic trug tub but we now have a cat who steals it if she can.
For when I'm out and about I have a small canvas bag that I put in my current project, hook and scissors.
My hooks all live in a glass jar on the mantle piece.

[mayfridaycomequickly]

A whole chest of drawers?? Haha - dp is moaning now and I only have 6 balls! Haha!

[yellowsnownoteatwillyou]

In a wardrobe hanging shelf thing,and in random plastic bags for taking it out.
I have a lot of wool

[TheWoollybacksWife]

I keep my yarn in the cupboard under the stairs - there is just enough room for the Hoover and the ironing board

I keep my current project in my work bag by the sofa and the extra yarn for the same project in a bag next to the sofa. The bag was bought by my DDs for my birthday and has "ballsack" printed on it. I'm a juvenile sorry

I have a silk pocket to keep my hooks in that lives in my work bag. I also have a fold up pocket with hooks, wool needles and scissors in that also lives in my work bag, along with a plastic box with a tape measure, stitch holders, stitch markers etc.

[merrymouse]

In a basket.

[TheNinjaGooseIsHooking]

my yarn lives in ikea boxes and then anything I'm working on goes in a cotton tote bag. Mine says 'knit fast die warm' Woolly

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

My wool stash lives in a big fabric holdall in the bottom of my wardrobe. Small current projects are taken out and about in a canvas drawstring bag, which also contains a clear plastic pencil case with spare hooks, tape measure, scissors etc. If it's a tiny project with a small ball of wool it just gets squeezed into the same pencil case. Got another one of these with bits I only need occasionally such as googly eyes, brooch fittings etc. Also have a large canvas shoulder bag that I use for bigger ongoing projects (blankets etc).

[RoosterCogburn]

Yes, a whole chest of drawers, and it's jammed in.
I've even got a bag on top at the moment because I can't squeeze it in.

[mayfridaycomequickly]

Oh god, wool is going to take over my house eventually isn't it!

[TheFairyCaravan]

I've got a chest/blanket box in the middle of the sitting room that we use as a coffee table. I have got a rather large stash of yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks and cross stitch stuff.

DH can't moan, his stash of timber takes up most of the garage!

[mayfridaycomequickly]

Ooo- what's a stitch marker bracelet??

[TheNinjaGooseIsHooking]

are you claiming the spare room as a craft room Polter I would love a craft room!

[honeysucklejasmine]

In the footstool, but its getting a bit crowded. Plan on setting up a container in under stairs cupboard for less frequently used yarns.

[SocksRock]

Umm, everywhere... I have a 8 cube expedit that is full, a couple of large storage boxes under the bed, a bag in my car that hasn't made it to the house yet, and a large storage cube in the living room for my current stuff. And half a sofa of WIPS.

[BitterChocolate]

Large zip-loc food bags are perfect for taking a project in your handbag. I leave the ball of yarn in the bag while I'm crocheting to stop it from rolling around all over the place.

I have a lot of Stylecraft Special DK, which I keep in a pop-up laundry basket in my sewing room. I also have three clear plastic lidded boxes, one with thinner than DK, one with DK and aran weight and one with thicker than aran.

[thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter]

Knitter chipping in, hope you don't mind all of mine is in two old unfabulous, Pampers nappies cardboard boxes and my needles etc and current project hang in a canvas tote shopper in the cupboard under the stairs - away from the cats

I'd love to buy a gorgeous pottery bowl thingy to store/display my nicer stuff though if anyone knows if such a thing exists please!

[BitterChocolate]

I recommend keeping your crochet hooks in something, perhaps a pencil case or a roll up make-up brush holder, even a mug or small vase if they are on a shelf. Hooks will escape at any opportunity, give them an inch and they'll hurl themselves down the back of the sofa.

Also, I have some small labels (the card type on a bit of string), if I stop working on something mid-way through then I write the hook size on the label and attach it to the last stitch.

[mayfridaycomequickly]

Wow - some of you have loads!!

Thanks Miaow I'm not up to making anything fancy that I need to mark stitches for yet wonders what I'd need to mark them for... I'm literally just at the jar covers / single colour scarf stage!

Out of interest - where do you all buy your vast amounts of wool? I've bought a couple of crappy balls in Asda and some on a stall in town but it's all acrylic. Nowhere locally that I know of sells it!

[SecretSpy]

mayday, it's all happening online. unless you've got a local wool shop or market stall that sells it.

aldi has it sometimes if you like acrylic.

and get yourself on Ravelry and be prepared to lose days.

[SecretSpy]

For wool from sheeps loveknitting, deramores, wool warehouse, kemps woolshop, and Aileens Woolshop on ebay are all good for a browse.