I love coloures, so I do it simple:
All reds in one basket, all mauve in one, all yellow in one (or
sometimes it is two and three)
I am So unprofessione that I mingle different thickness and types,
but when I set all my baskets out on the floor and let my eyes "swim "
in the colores, I am in paradise!
BTW: It's saturday evening here, but I have NOT drunk any vine yet, even
if you should think so!LOL!
(to be a bit more "soberminded" The baskets fit in a shelf, and stand
there side by side, easy to reach, and don't take too much place.(my
children have moved from home years ago, so I HAVE some more place now
;-)
AUD ;-)

skrev i melding
om...
We had a very good thread on storing needles.

So how do people deal with those little balls of yarn left over from a
project? How do you store them? They do not fit in a file folder!

Do you keep the gauge trial with the left over yarn? But, some of my
gauge
trials are stitch samplers that I want to keep with my patterns, and
not
with my yarns. I guess that means a cross index system, i.e., a note
attached to the yarn that the guage trial is stitch sampler such and
such.

When do you just throw the leftover yarn balls to the cats to play
with?

Do you sort by yarn thickness or by color?

I keep projects in progress in clear plastic shoe boxes for small
projects
or clear plastic sweater boxes for larger projects. Each project box
has
all the yarn for that project, the guage trials, the needles, and
instructions/pattern/calculations/charts for that project. At the end
of
the project, I put the needles away, file the pattern, and . . . .
What do I
do with a 1.4 oz ball of bulky yarn.

What do you do with your bits of left over yarn? Is this where the
squares
exchange comes in?

For now, I'm going to put them into recycled zip-lok plastic bags.
The
cross index idea sounds altogether too much like work.

Should RCTY work together to get into the Guiness Book of Records by
createing the world's largest ball of yarn, one left over bit at time?

Aaron