Where do you store your needles?

Before we get into tomorrow's focus on circular needles - it's time for a little straight talk. Fess up. You have dozens of straight needles like me, right?  But is your collection a Panic in Needle Park like mine?

Now there are needles of every variety from cool polymer designs to handpainted leopard spots that just demand to be on display.  I love the look of those incredible glass needles but I wouldn't dare use them. And everyone wants the new light-up ones, but the people in my life are annoyed enough by (a) the fact that I am always knitting, and (b) the clicking noise. I won't push it.

I love the beauty of Lantern Moons but I have a thing about long wooden spikes (a childhood splinter trauma). I have a lot of big old Susan Bates metal ones - which are now considered "vintage." 

I flattered Regina by stealing her idea of placing them in a large vase filled with sand. I used litter instead of sand and my boy Dexter's been mighty curious. Um, I fear it's only a matter of time.

Got any tips about storing your sticks?

Comments

[Beth]

That picture is seriously creepy! I'm afraid I just toss my straight needles into a vase. There's no sand in the bottom, though.

[scribblesnbits]

Right now, I just have them in a canvas tote hanging from a doorknob. They're all either plastic or aluminum, except the one pair of Lantern Moon I bought and am now scared to use. I wore out the bamboo needles I had and I think I'd be really unhappy if I wore out the Lantern Moon ones (although it makes more sense to use them and wear them out than stare at them. The money spent is the same, so I've just realized my reasoning is dumb.)

[Betsy]

Actually I store my needles in my upper lip, it hides the mustache!!!

No seriously, after my huge purchase of "lots" from eBay (I am someone obsessive about collections, it is all or nothing) I gathered up some old milk tins and store them in there. I also made a huge vase in pottery class last year for the long ones! The all sit on top of a ledge on my desk in my yarn room. To keep them together I cut small stripes of the blue painters tape and attached the points together to make the matches. Painters tape will NOT leave a sticky residue which quite frankly can foil a good knitting adventure.

[Jennifer]

That is just disturbing! Ouch!

I store my needles in a needle roll, actually several of them as I've got a ton of needles.

[Mama Cat]

I have a needle roll given to me years & years ago when my mom realized that I like knitting way better than she does. She'd made this roll as a home ec project in high school, I think - in the early 1950s. I love it!!! But it is nowhere near big enough to hold my entire needle stash. Many of them are in various project bags with bits of knitting hanging off of them. And of course, whichever needle size I really need at the moment generally already has knitting hanging off of it.

My needle collection includes a whole lot of bamboo, plus a fairly large number of 1950s-era steel needles that came with the knitting roll, and some surprisingly nice soft-warm plastic ones from the 60s I think. Some are my mom's, some were her mother's, and some were my dad's mom's. I hate knitting with steel or plastic but I love having their needles.

[Susan of SNL]

Betsy has a yarn room? a real yarn room? a photo is needed!