Several years ago I was blessed by another woman at church with her mother's knitting needles.  I received many sizes of DPNs, circulars, and straight knitting needles.  Because I didn't have a storage system, I simply kept them all in a large tin.  Later, I put the DPNs into a little zippered pencil case to keep them organized.  As I learned more about knitting, I added to my needle collection and I used more and more of what was given to me.  Sorting through all the needles in a large tin was becoming increasingly complicated.

Then I found this at our local Goodwill (thrift) store:

It looks like a portable DVD case or maybe a lap top right?  Well, it's actually meant to be a travel bag for toiletries.  But that's not how I used it!

On the left is a section with a wide elastic band sewn to the divider every 1-2 inches.  This was probably intended for lotion bottles, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc...  I'm using it to store my double pointed needles. (DPNs)  On the needles for which I don't have the original package I used my label maker to print a label on that piece of elastic marking the needle size.

On the right is the zippered section.  I've got all of my circular needles in there that are in their marked package.  I don't have to worry about their sizes.  But then, you lift up the divider that holds my DPNs and you find this:

The middle section is a series of large see-through pockets.  I have my circulars sorted in those pockets and I used my label maker to mark what needles are in those pockets.  At a glance, I can easily grab the size I need by needle size and length.

All of my double-pointed and circular needles are stored in a small case that's easy to store and use.  I love it!  I wonder if the manufactures knew when they were making this makeup case that it would be great for a knitter?

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