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For someone who doesn’t use much ribbon, I certainly have a lot of it. I similar ribbon. I like to buy it. I parallel to collect it. And I allied to look at it. Add to this the event that I can’t fetch myself to part with even small pieces of ribbon, and it’s a bit of a puzzle.

The Problem
Over the years, I’ve tried several methods of organizing my ribbon, but it wasn’t until lately that I found one that could accommodate my burgeoning assemblage.

My first ribbon purchases were by the enclosure. I cut rectangles of cardboard and wrapped the ribbons around them, securing the ends with a bit of bright tape. I stored these tiny bundles in a limpid plastic shoebox, cleanly labeled with a Dymo label.

The shoebox system worked for a while, until I started buying spools of ribbon. It seemed blunt to take the ribbon off the spool and air it around a piece of cardboard, so I kept the spools. Hence I needed a next to the first shoebox for the spools.

The dual-shoebox system worked for a while, until I started accumulating puny scraps of ribbon. I shoved these into a builder in stone jar on my windowsill. I liked the way it looked, so I bought several more builder in stone jars and sorted the ribbon scraps by tinge. As I acquired new ribbons, I put them in the jars, which looked pleasing without being striking on my windowsill.

The dual-shoebox-in addition-mason-jar system worked for a while, until my manufacturer concoct team started sending me ribbon. Lots of ribbon. Lengthy, long pieces of ribbon that were clearly not going to fit into my already stuffed builder in stone jars. I wanted to keep these ribbons part from my main assemblage anyway, so I grouped them by stamp or theme, fastened each cluster with a one-inch butterfly cut, threaded the clips onto sheaf-maker rings, and hung the rings on the back of my fragment room entrance.

Then I took a useful look at my dual-shoebox-more-mason-jar-in addition-hanging-butterfly-cut system and realized . . . it wasn’t laboring.

Read on to see my new organizational system.

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