crocheters - where do you keep your wool?

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... 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!

I buy some of mine online, some in a local yarn store - if the local store stock what I'm after I always buy it there to support them. Also it's nice to have a squidge of the yarn when I'm choosing.

Small bag , bigger bag, basket, cupboard..., then every surface and cupboard going! I have a cull every now and again and get rid left over stock but it has habit creepy up on you.
Projects I'm working on go in pillowcases to keep clean and together , toothbrush travel tunes make good hook holders or pencil cases for scissors stitch markers etc.

My hooks are in a pot on the windowsill where I usually crochet so easy to grab. I've got yarn under the bed, in a drawer and in several big shopping bags.
If you buy from wool warehouse, they send yarn in an organza bag so I use that to store my current project.

It would be quicker to say where i don't keep my wool...

I have six boxes of yarn under two beds, a box of knitting pins under the bed, crochet hooks and various other bits in a basket (that's where the current project lives). Other wips are in cloth bags, the one I take out has a small sewing case with it.
There is also a Jamieson and Smith box of wool standing in a corner somewhere as there was no more room under the beds.

good luck Polter it would be so much easier to have everything in one place!

I mostly use wool warehouse, deramores or love knitting for woolly purchases. My LYS is tiny and doesn't stock very much so I don't go very often.

I use Wool Warehouse, a local wool shop and the haberdashery department of a local independent department store.

Can I adopt your mother?

I made a crocheted bag from all the scraps to put all my 'current' wool/projects in. I call it wool but actually I am highly allergic to lanolin so it is acrylic or cotton. All the rest is in bags around the house. the bag sits under the table in the front room as that's mainly where I crochet, and if we go for a long journey I crochet when my OH is driving so I can just grab and go.

I am gutted that my mother got rid of the Family Stash before I learnt to crochet :(

Ziploc plastic bags - after a run in with moths

I don't think the carrier bag on the back of the door is going to cut it for the pile of yarn I've just ordered from Wool Warehouse!

I have a double wardrobe, one half of which has my yarn, books etc are on a bookcase in the living room as is the pot I keep my hooks/needles in etc and the on-going project is in one of those plastic zip up bags that the kids duvets came in.

Oh soupdragon I am so sorry to hear that.
It's like it was all just there waiting for you...

I've got a stuffed zip up bag from Primark - I've only been crocheting for about a month, I can totally see how the yarn obsession takes hold!

I have several 'projects' underway - I keep seeing new things to try and want to try it immediately... nothing is ever going to get finished!!