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WAYWO: So Little Time, So Many Projects (and Tools) [1]

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Date: 2026-06-14  

What am I working on? Mostly tasks that I’m not documenting with any photography. Two of the last three summers, I had medical restrictions that kept me from doing yard work and many of the tasks to maintain the house, so I’m working away on those things. Boring but necessary.



I’ve only done a wee bit of knitting. In the cover image, I’ve done only as far as from the purple stitch marker to the needle since the WAYWO diary I did two weeks ago. That much is less than I often do in a day ~ but I’m going to blame the summer heat for not getting more done.

I’m currently knitting from the ball of yarn that is green ~ it’s gradually getting lighter and will change to yellow, which you can almost see peeking through. When I finish knitting that ball, I’ll start the second one, which will go from yellow back to a dark green to finish the shawl.

I have been thinking some about tools. There are all sorts of neat gadgets now for knitters/crocheters to use that weren’t around a decade or two ago. In the photo, I have stitch stoppers on the ends of my needle ~ very handy for making sure a project stuffed rapidly in a project bag doesn’t unravel.



I learned to knit on straight needles, as that’s what my mother primarily used. But when I started exploring the communal knitting world, I met people who used circular needles for most of their projects ~ and I found that I really liked circulars more than traditional straight needles. That’s especially true for large projects ~ like shawls where the bottom edge can be 60 inches or more when I’m done.

These next two pictures are the same shawl at different stages ~ I had to go up a needle length to have the stitches sit nicely on the needle when the bottom edge got long enough. In the first picture, it’s on a 24 inch needle, while the second picture is a 40 inch needle. I’ve got lots of needles, from those meant for knitting very fine yarn to chunky yarn, altough most of mine are mid-sized (U.S. sizes 4 to 6), as those go with the size yarns I use the most.

Both this and the shawl in the title image are knit top down ~ the green stitch marker is where I started this shawl ~ and that’s what will go against my neck. The advantage to this is that I don’t need to cast on a horrendous number of stitches. It’s less true for this version, but top-down shawls can also be knit to the point of finishing up the available yarn more easily than some projects.

What are you working on?

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