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?
This looks fabulous. What a great idea. Everything is easy to see and use. I hope you love your new plastic totes.