Colour Palette in a Box
I often work on the needle felting part of a project at home or at the guild. I end up with bags of possible fibres I might need and they usually hang around longer than the project. Every once and a while I have to gather them up and return all the wool to my studio. Then start again for the next thing I am working on. As you know I tend to work smaller, postcard and trading card sort of sizes. That means I don’t need a lot of any one colour. Somehow I always grab way more fiber than I need.
I keep looking at the little boxes of fibre that Ali Express and Amazon sell as part of felting kits. I don’t need the wool or the needles (I have my own local, very knowledgeable, needle dealer- Jan) So I went searching for the boxes. I found them on Ali Express. ali express box for sale I bought 2 Like this.
The boxes snap together so I took the lid of one and snapped them together.
Inside there are removable dividers.
I started adding small amounts of wool, a different colour group in each tray.
And this is what it looks like now. I do still need to add a few more colours but these are the ones I had handy in the house. I left the bottom one empty so I can add tools to it, needles, holders, and scissors to start. I need to sort my needles so I have a few of each in the tray and some of the handles.
Do you have a good portable storage system for your wool and supplies?
29 thoughts on “Colour Palette in a Box”
That’s a great idea Ann – and doesn’t it look pretty too – all those lovely fibres 🙂 It will also save time when you need to get going somewhere and you can be sure you have everything you need.
Thanks ladies, They do look pretty all organized like that don’t they. I am hoping it means i don’t have to haul around as much.
Love this seems like I could even take this on our camping trips. Thanks so much for sharing these great pics and info:)
I am glad you like it. It would be perfect for camping.
This is a super clever idea, Ann. You can see at a glance what colours you have and reach for the ones you need. Reminds me a little of my embroidery thread collection! 🙂
Thanks. I can’t take credit except maybe for putting 2 together. I reminds
me of that too.
That is so clever!
Thanks Bernadette
You are so well organised, just looking at those little bundles of fibre in their boxes is enough to make me want to start a new project! That’s so much better than how I store my left over bits of fibre….they all get shoved in to one large box under my table! My idea of “portable” fibres is to grab the nearest bag and cram it with anything I think I might need while I’m out!😱
LOL getting organized is fairly easy. Saying organized is a whole other ball game. Ye I have a bag of smaller bits too. I try to pull form it but always take to much with me.
Impressed! May I borrow ?
Thank you, of course. I added the link to the boxes up near the top of the blog post.
Love the idea of a grab-and-go box, Ann! Thanks for the inspiration!
I am glad to help. I added the link in up near the top of the blog post.
Great idea Ann! It will work perfectly for the way you create. I have tried to do this with fabric, thread, wool, embellishments but it always ends up in a big jumble. And, if I’m traveling, I put bits and pieces in a ziploc bag. Perhaps one day I will be organized.
Thanks, like I told Karen getting organized and staying that way, are two different skill sets. I am a messy creator most of the time. Get every thing out and have a good rummage around for the right thing.
Would you please post the link for purchasing these boxes? I’d love to get some to organize my roving mill ends.
I will edit into the post, up near the top.
Brilliant! And very pretty to look at too.
Thanks you
Such a brilliant idea, and the wool looks gorgeous in the boxes too. Thanks for the idea!
Glad to help, Ideas are meant to be shared.
Perfect idea, Ann. I usually travel with bits, and bits, and they end up in a mixed up mess when I return home.
Yes that happens . I am not sure how much this will help with that. Once I start working sometimes organization is the last thing on my mind.
Good idea, Ann! I guess that I am still in the grab-the-bag-and-go stage, and I end up with small bags of old project fibres all over the place. Your way seems so much more organised.
I end up with way to many bags of small amounts of fibre too. I am hoping this will help with that. And maybe help with my spreading out when I am working.
I bought some of those in a Danish shop we have here called Tiger. Cheap as chips but so practical. I use them for buttons, embroidery threads etc. but I have to admire your fibre arrangement. Great use for on the go projects and also just to sit, stare and admire…… Yum!
Helene
Lucky you finding them local and cheap. I haven’t seen the ones you can keep stacking here. They would be good for so many things.
I put all of my wool in toilet roll holders.