craftgrrl | Recycled container yarn tub

So I originally saw this idea at a craft shoppe.
A large plastic bottle, with a hole in the top to put your yarn into.
Especially helpful if you have kitties that enjoy chasing your yarn ball....also helpful for keeping said pet hair off your yarn, along with dust, thread and other flotsam it inevitably picks up from the floor.
However, the store wanted $6.oo for a large plastic bottle.....and I knew I recycle such things on a regular basis.
So I waited.

And voila, sherbert tub!

~I had already cut a hole in the lid~

But, its a sherbert tub. Not very pretty.

That's alright!
We've got plastic primer, spraypaint, and leftover stick on stencils from other projects!

Ok, so I should have taken more time between applying coats.....as the stencil started pulling off my base coat....
And in the past I really should have cleared out my spraypaint's nozzel(s) as I had all sorts of problems with both greens jamming, and the light green left some paint chunks on the surface......
But still....looks better than a sherbert tub with a hole in the top....

I glued on a small square of some scrap 'craft foam' sheeting I had floating around, hot glued it over the opening, and cut an X in it to give it a dust filtering hole to feed the yarn though.

Holds a reasonable size yarn ball with plenty of room for it to move.

This project could easily be adapted to smaller or larger containers.

And there you have it!

Enjoy!

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