Mission: Ribbon Organization

Nov

2009

After I posted my Craft Area Makeover, I had email after email asking me to show how I hung my ribbon on the cork board. This is so easy, you won’t believe it! It was one of those temporary ideas that worked out surprisingly well so I decided I didn’t need to change after all!

Here is what I did.

I put all my ribbon onto dowels. On each side of the dowel I got a piece of ribbon and folded it over, making a loop just big enough for the dowel to fit through. Then I glued the ribbon with hot glue- yep, hot glue- to hold it.

Again, I made this to be temporary as I never thought this would last or that the hot glue would hold the ribbon together once it had to hold the weight of the ribbon, but the original hanging dowel I made nearly 2 years ago is still holding strong!!! You could also just make a giant loop and not glue anything too if you are still worried about it. Maybe I used some great ribbon or something that melted together with the glue? I don’t know, take it for what its worth, I am just glad its working!!!

Then I just tacked up each side with 2 thumb tacks!

Can’t get easier than that, right?

And I have A LOT of ribbon hanging, as you can see, so this board is holding a lot of weight and doing just fine!

Martha Stewart has some ideas if you want to copy her instead:

Use a utility knife to make slits or use grommets. For both versions, make a 1/4-inch hole on box ends. Place ribbon spools inside, then slide a 1/4-inch dowel into one end, through the spools, and out the other. A thumbtack on each dowel end keeps it from shimmying into the box.

I also found this idea on Country Living: