Lidl (shoe) Yarn Organiser for Storing Yarn

Yes it is a lid shoe carousel, but I discovered, on Facebook, that you could use it as a yarn organiser. I was intrigued and when I found one in my local store, I thought I would give it a try. You will have discovered, in a previous post, (here) that I am a yarnaholic and my practice yarn has got out of hand and needs some organisation.

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Box Contents

I could not visualise how something round could be found in a flat box, but I took it home and took out the contents of the box.

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It contained 3 poles, one with a spring to hold the pole between floor and ceiling. There was 8 round plastic shelves and lots of little flat plastic ‘hooks’ that slotted in to hold your shoes. They were slightly the wrong shape to hold a cone but it was worth trying. There was some little elastic bands that held up some little tubes that held up the plastic shelves. All in all an interesting design.

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The instructions were a little difficult to understand, especially the bit about how to add the tight rubber bands. I just did my best to interpret the diagrams.

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A hour later I had the pole assembled, but then found that my little cottage ceilings were too low for the pole. I may need to saw off some of the metal tube. Finally, I managed to wedge the pole (not totally vertical) between floor and ceiling in a corner of my spare room. Once it was wedged, I was unable to move it so it was stuck where it was. Fortunately it was close to where I wanted it.

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Yarn Organiser

I then spent a few hours trying to figure out which cones would go on the pole and which would stay in boxes on my spare bed. I tried colours and different types of yarn. The plastic pieces that hold shoes on, are not the right shape for cones of yarn. I found that smaller cones fitted better. A few hours later, I finally had half my cones on the pole and it was not bad. I think that when I have used some of these for practice, I will use the pole for my new yarn2cone cones of yarn or other 500g or smaller cones of yarn.

So, I feel that the Lidl shoe carousel is a good way to organise and store your yarn, especially as the price is less than fifteen pounds. The round plastic ‘shelves’ rotate so that you can view your yarn, which I like. If your yarn keeps falling off the ‘plastic hook things’, then you can just store it on the round plastic shelf.

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Have you tried doing this? If not, perhaps the next time you see a shoe carousel in your local Lidl you could try it.

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Happy Knitting!

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Carol

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