How would you store your UFOs?

Along with the knitting needles? I might need them for a new project. Just buy more needles? Or would you go to the trouble of transferring the UFO onto stitch-holder cables?

On the one hand, that might be a good idea; on the other hand, it’s a real motivation killer if I can’t pick up the UFO and keep knitting right away. Could interchangeable circular needles be the solution? I mean, you’d just buy more cables to go with them.

Now, I’m not really one to let UFOs pile up, but I could imagine that it would stay a UFO even longer if there were no needles in it anymore—it would basically be put away for good, never to be seen again.
I’d store it ready to go, so that any spontaneous urge to knit can be acted on immediately—that way, even a UFO will eventually get finished.
And maybe it’s also an incentive if you suddenly need the needles and have to go buy some more.

I’m a UFO specialist.....

I leave the circular needles with the project—I have plenty of them. Over the years I’ve accumulated more and more, because I bought myself a set of needle tips, got needles from my mother, and got some from neighbors and friends.

With double-pointed needles it gets more difficult. I often don’t have more than 1–2 of each size. But before I take them out, I’d rather not start the new project. 

I don’t transfer them onto stitch-holder cables. 

When it comes to crochet, I don’t have five of everything either. Then it often happens that I take out the crochet hook, forget to put a note in, and in the end I rip it out because I no longer know the hook size and often the pattern either. 

In any case, add a note to it… what needle size, what pattern, and what yarn. It’s best to keep everything together. 😁
I’ve had to unravel quite a few projects simply because I hadn’t made any notes, and with one of them, I’d even given the yarn away in the meantime because I couldn’t remember why it was in my yarn cabinet. 
For UFOs, I use “old” knitting needles/circular needles—usually the ones where the cables aren’t so nice and smooth anymore. Then, when a sudden urge to work on a UFO
strikes, I can quickly carry on knitting by simply knitting the stitches onto the “good” needle.
I might browse the flea market sometime—I often find “old” knitting needles there for “next to nothing.” 
I’m not too convinced by stitch-holder cables, but that’s surely due to the yarns/needle sizes I use. With 3–4 mm needles, I find it “difficult” to get the yarn onto the cable... 
My UFOs (currently three) are stored in separate craft bags. Everything’s nicely together.... 

In a case like that, I find KnitPro really handy: unscrew the tips, put the protective caps on the ends of the cables, and attach the needles to a different cable.

After all, a UFO usually becomes one because you set it aside to work on something else... and then forget about it. You do want to keep knitting, though. That’s why the needles stay in.
That’s how I always find mine, anyway. 😂 I’ve never set anything aside thinking, “This is going to be a UFO now.”
Best regards, Marita