Ribbon Storage Ideas for Spools! (2 Easy Tricks)

Make sure your pretty ribbon is right where you need it with these easy Ribbon Storage Ideas for Spools! These simple tricks are such a game changer!

Then… have even more fun getting organized with these Home Organizing Tips and Tricks for the rest of your home!

Ribbon Storage Ideas for Spools

On the hunt for some simple Ribbon Storage Ideas for Spools?? These creative ideas will have your wild ribbon organized and corralled in no time!

Samantha writes: "LOVE THIS! For someone like me who runs a flowershop and has ribbon of all sizes and designs coming out her ears, this is the most perfect way I have EVER found to organize my ribbons! Let me tell you when I say I have tried everything, I mean it!!! Thank you so much for this for idea."

If you’re anything like me, you’ve collected a lot of ribbon spools over the years, so taking a few minutes to get them organized once and for all is SO worth it!

It will make using your ribbon so much more fun, too!

So are you ready to get those ribbon spools all tidied up?

Here’s what you need to do…

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How to Store Ribbon Rolls

So are you ready to get those unruly rolls of ribbon tidied up? Here are my two favorite options for storing ribbon in your craft room or craft closet…

Supplies Needed for a Ribbon Dispenser Rack

You’ll just need a few simple supplies to make a plastic bin ribbon dispenser rack!

• Thick plastic container with a lid
• 5/16” wooden dowels
• A 5/16” drill bit and drill
• Wood glue or hot glue… or both.
• As many ¾ inch, wooden, screw-hole plugs as dowels (alternatively, Tinker Toys may fit these dowels. I think they would be adorable on both ends but glued on only ONE end.)

Tip from Kathy: I didn’t have the patience to let the wood glue set before loading the dowels up, so I also glued around the outside of the dowel with hot glue.

How to Make a Plastic Box Ribbon Storage Rack

Here’s what you’ll do…

1. Using your 5/16” drill bit, drill holes in the wooden screw-hole plugs but not all the way through.

2. Put some glue in the hole and attach your dowel. It should be a very tight fit. You can sand the dowel a little to make it fit if necessary (but it shouldn’t be ~ use some muscle!). 😉

3. While your glue dries,  measure a dowel to fit your container’s width so that they extend about one inch or so beyond the outside of the box.

4. Cut all dowels to your measurement. (they’re small enough that you can simply use a serrated knife to score around the dowel and then just snap it off.)

5. Measure and mark the spacing of the holes for your dowels on the box with a Sharpie.

6. On each side of the box, the holes should be approximately 2.5” from the short end of the box, approximately 2.5-3” down into the depth of the box, and a minimum of 5 inches away from each other going down the length of the box.

7. Use your ribbon spools to gauge the exact distance you would like them placed, just be sure that they match up on the opposite side.

8. Depending on the size of your box, mark as many holes as will fit dowels. (I used three dowels)

9. Using your 5/16” drill bit, drill the holes according to your marks.

10. When the glue is dry on your dowels, push the dowel through a hole in the box and load ‘em up with ribbon spools!

11. When full, put the dowel through the second, corresponding hole.

How to Secure Ribbon Ends

Pro Tip: Ribbon ends can be secured to the rest of the spool with either a small tab of tape or a sewing pin.

Wasn’t that SO easy? Thanks to frugal friend Kathy in Connecticut for sharing this creative Ribbon Storage Idea!

Now another fun way to store your ribbon is on a tiered pants hanger! Here’s what you’ll do…

#2: How to Store Ribbon on Hangers

Here’s another fantastic tip from frugal friend Susan!

“Take a coat hanger that is meant to unclip for slacks, undo the clip, slide ribbon spools on the rod, clip back and put hangers wherever you want them! (Like the closet or a hook near your crafts) I like the wooden hangers but they also have metal ones. They are getting harder to find, but you can still locate them at Thrift shops, yard sales, and specialty closet-type stores.”

What You’ll Need for a Ribbon Storage Hanger

Here what you’ll need…

• 1 Tiered Pants Hanger (I picked this one up from Target)
• Spools of Ribbon

How to Make a Ribbon Hanger Organizer

Simply unhook an upper tier, and thread spools of ribbon on.

Repeat again on a lower tier, and you’re done! SO easy!

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So how do you store your craft supplies or ribbon?

Got a tip or trick??

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