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Today I am going to show you how to organize the endless rolls of ribbon us crafters seem to accumulate. (Please ignore my dishes in the kitchen, doing this tutorial for you was way more important!) I want to say I didn’t think this up all by myself I first saw it here on Pinterest and was like duh why didn’t I think of that.
Most of the tutorials I have been doing you can use things you have around the house. But today to do this tutorial you need this bin sold at Wal-Mart. They come in a variety of sizes. This one was $3.00 at my Wal-Mart. It measures on the inside 12x15x7
You’ll also need a 5/16 inch dowel rod. I also got this at Wal-Mart. It comes from there in a four foot length.
Cut the dowel rod the length of the bin plus one inch, so you will have some to over hang and keep it in place.
Insert the dowel into the hole of your choice through one side. For most ribbon rolls the third hole on the second row from the edge works perfect. The dowel rod I got fit in the hole very snugly.
Feed the ribbon rolls on to the dowel and feed through to the other side.
Next feed each of the ribbon rolls into the holes. Awesome and organized!
After doing this I discovered that the roll move around quite a bit, so I added a rubber band to each end. This worked like a charm. I may go back and add rubber bands between each roll.
I had some ribbon that was on smaller rolls or just loose so I added a bin and baggie to help contain the excess between my two rows of ribbon.
Last I added a piece of ribbon about a yard long to the side of the bin and attached a pair of scissors to the other end. The next time I need a piece of ribbon I won’t have to hunt for the scissors, just snip and go.
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