ribbon storage

• angie girl Said:

I had my husband build out of wood a ribbon holder that I have hanging on my wall. It is sorta like something you would (and prolly could) use on the back of a door. I have cafe rods holding dowels with the ribbon spools on the dowels. I tied a pair of scossors with a long piece of ribbon to keep right there on the dowel system so I always have scissors. I also keep a yard stick next to it. You can see it in my gallery. That photo is when I first hung it up and not all my ribbons is on it in that photo like they are now. It frees up drawer space by placing it on the wall.

I don't know how to add a photo in this post or how to add a link so to see it you will just haveta go to my gallery. It is titled Ribbon Storage.

I use the jars. I take all my ribbon off the spools and only keep 2-3 yards then join ribbon swaps to get a variety. Jars are sorted by color, then I have one that is only Christmas themed ribbon. Works the best for me. Tried a homemade pull-eze and hated it. Tried keeping it on spools and organized. Took up a lot of space. The jars are my favorite.

I have the Clip It Up ribbon organizer, close to the gutter system. Except you have clips beneath for the small pieces or those not on rolls. I do like it.

I also use the rain gutter. Its the best system
I've found so far and it hold ALOT of ribbon.

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...

This is mine and I love it, I am so glad I took the time to wind the ribbons. I got the idea from the veggie site (I think but I am not sure)

url=http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/image/scrapro om/2041195.html][/url] Ribbon storage By CorrieW

My Dad and BIL built me this awesome ribbon rack!
http://kellyspages.typepad.com/.a/6a00e393355675883401156f3f8f05970c-500wi

My loose ribbon is in jars, and my spooled ribbon is on this awesome rack!

I used to use jars to sort. But then I was limited on storage space (maybe a good thing if you cant stop buying!)

I recently moved and I am in the process of reorganizing everything. My ribbon is going on ribbon rings. It feels like it is taking forever (well worth it.. its looking much better).

The pros I see so far - Ribbon is crinkled as much (as a jar), and you can see all that you have.

cons: if you have a lot of big rolls you cant put it all up, the solution is to display a yard or so and use the inventory dots, or mark the tag that you have a lot more.

To stay organized I only keep 2 yards of a type of ribbon (very rarely i keep extra if I really love it) then I swap the rest in swaps for other ribbon and scrapbooking embellies.

I will have pictures later this week but here are a couple links int he gallery of other girls who use them:
http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/?m=image& id=191710...

sb.com has ones by chicory chic, and the ones I have are called Ribbon Ring, if you google it you can find it. I purchased the bulk pack so I have room to grow.

Ribbon Storage By KellyCali

Rolls take up a ton of room. I always take them off the rolls. You can see mine here in the gallery. There is also a link there to my blog post showing just how much room it saves getting them off the rolls. Hope it helps. I have had my storage this way for many years, and I LOVE it.

This is how I store mine...I have several of these containers full....It works for me and takes up little space.


Ribbon storage
By Patti Poo

• Mimmy96 Said:

I stole this idea. I LOVE it. I also turned a $4.00 clear plastic make-up bag in to a ribbon hold by punching holes in it. It is in the pic also. Sitting on top of the white shelf on my desk.


My ribbon holders
By Jeniffenner

here's my DREAM ribbon organization-

http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=gallerie...

my next house/room will have this!

Such great ideas, I can't wait to try some to help me organize!

I have tried many ways and finally came up with this... This is by far my favorite!!! It just plain rain gutters from lowes! I used the vinyl ones!
Updated Scrapbook Room By Mimmy96

I have ribbon problems too. Once in a while I get it put away nice, then I go ribbon shopping and don't get around to it and it is a mess again.

I'm also looking for ribbon storage ideas. I've never seen the ribbon purse before, but I like it.

I also saw a video on youtube of a woman who had a box-version similar to it. When I saw the box, I was thinking i might try to make one out of a baby-wipes box. Not sure how I'd get the holes in it, but I'm sure it could be done quite easily. I don't have a crop-a-dile, but I'm thinking the big bite might do the job.

I'm like you. I love love love ribbon!!! here is how I store mine. I take it off the spools.

ribbon storage

I love my pull-ez ribbon purse!!

Ribbon storage
By KristiL

I have mine in "bathroom bins"- plastic rectangular boxes that have round holes cut in them. I put a dowel thru it short way and string the spools of ribbon onto those. It works really well. I don't want to pull all the ribbon off the spools and dump it into the pull-ez and I don't want to put them on rings and I don't want to wrap them around clothes pins so this works for me so far. This picture doesn't have them totally organized but you can see what I use.

Feb. 1, 2009 By Seaexplore

I use one of those pantry door shelving things & just bolted it to my wall. & the plastic containers on the bottom are from container store.

My sunshine room By Scrapalooza

I really liek the Ribbon Ring system, you can hang the rings jsut about anywhere, so it gives you alittle more room instead of jsut putting it on a shelf.

I have a few photos in my gallery of the ribbon rings system. depending on the size of the ring, I have the largest size, 3 in diameter it can hold QUITE a bit of ribbon.


And since I know I won't be using for the most part a full 12in.+ I will cut the ribbon down to 2ft lenghts

you could try the pull-ez ribbon purse...

I have this thing with buying ribbon. It just screams "BUY ME" when I'm at the stores...so now I have tons, but I'm clueless about storage ideas.

Please share with me your ribbon storage ideas. Most of what I have is almost full spools (of all sizes), not much "scrap" lengths...so I need that kind of storage ideas.

Thanks so much in advance!