Organizing needles

When I learned to knit, a long time ago, I was taught to do it with long, straight needles. Not so great for the shoulders!
So it was just wonderful when I learned to use circular needles, and (short) dpns.  Now I hardly use long, straight needles anymore.

But: now I have a lot of dpns and circular needles, lying around in a drawer, and that is a bit of a mess. So it was time to figure out a way to organize them.

For this project I used only blue fabrics. I embroidered  little knitting design on the front,

added a zipper and a lot of pockets.

As you can see I there is enough room for 6 sets of dpns, and enough room for circular needles.

Because I like to have all I need at one place, I added also a lot of pockets for tapestry needles, stitch markers, scissors and other haberdashery.

The middle section, with the pockets for the circular needles is lined with a piece of cardboard. This is because those little needles are so fragile and break so easily. The cardboard gives the organizer enough stiffness to prevent that from happening.

Groetjes. Dorien