Ribbon Organization with Vintage Wooden Spools

We’re still unpacking and organizing in the new house, most especially in our homeschooling and craft room. Here’s a simple organization project to organize ribbon remnants inspired by this picture from Country Living Magazine.

We wrapped remnants of ribbon on vintage wooden spools that we spotted at a local craft resale shop for twelve cents a piece:

To keep the ribbon from unwinding, we temporarily taped it while securing the spools with elastic:

We fed the elastic through the center of the spool then pulled tight, making a circle of elastic around the spool, knotting both ends together. We then stuffed the knot into the center of the spool, hiding it:

Then we placed the ribbon spools on a wooden spool rack:

Now our ribbons are accessible (instead of tangled in a box!) and easy on the eyes.