Organize Craft Room Strings And Ribbons With A Nifty Mason Jar Hack

A well-organized craft or art room can be a key factor in both productivity and creativity, offering you a well-appointed space where you can easily keep track of and find all your supplies. String, twine, ribbon, and other unruly spooling materials, however, can often be the bane of your organization scheme, with most people tossing their supplies into drawers, baskets, and boxes. This means things can easily become unwound and tangled and aren't always easy to find. 

TikTok user @lizfenwickdiy shows off an ingenious craft room idea using an everyday Mason jar that will keep these materials both stored attractively and easy to use. By poking a hole in the jar's lid and threading them through, it makes it easy to pull out and cut off what you need. You can use any old jar for this craft room storage solution, including upcycled ones rescued from the recycling bin, for a no-waste, no-cost version of this hack.

This hack works well for sewing and craft studios, home offices, and gift-wrapping stations in your home, as well as places like the kitchen and garage, where you may keep butcher's twine or other similar materials. This can also work for organizing and storing different kinds of wire or fishing line in a workshop. 

For a portable wrapping station that you can move from place to place in your home, build a jar caddy with hot glue and jute twine like this one found on TikTok. You could also mount them on the wall with a board and some pipe clamps to help keep your work area clear.

Create this craft room organization hack by punching holes in the lid of the jar to accommodate the number of spools you'll be storing inside. Use a hammer and a large nail as an easy punch, driving it through the metal top. If you are storing wider rolls, using a knife as a punch to create a slit may work better. To make the opening larger, reinsert the nail or knife and wriggle it to make the opening wider.

Once the holes are punched through, simply thread the end of the twine or ribbon through the holes, pulling it out. Place the spool or reel in the jar. Each time you pull on the end, it will unspool, but will not tangle or impede the unrolling of the other spools. Just cut off what you need from the top. If you want to corral the loose bits hanging out of the jar, try gluing on some buttons or small spools around the outside to wrap the ends around when not in use.

These jars look adorable with several spools of twine inside, or you can layer your ribbon spools horizontally for an easy way to see at a glance what you have. You can even make several jars and color-coordinate them for a pretty ribbon display in your craft room. Use jars to dispense a wide variety of sewing materials easily, including lace trim, rick rack, and beaded trims stored on spools or cards you can just slip into the jar.