How Do You Organize Your WIPs? By guest blogger Jana

How Do You Organize Your WIPs? By guest blogger Jana

If you’re looking in my house, you’d probably think, “Well, obviously, Jana, you don’t organize your works in progress.” I beg to differ: what looks like chaos is just bad housekeeping. The projects themselves are actually organized. Sort of.

Two categories here: Projects in Rotation and Resting Projects. Projects in Rotation are actually being worked on or at least thought about. Each of these is in a project or knitting bag along with a copy of the pattern and any notes I’ve made on the project. Any specialized tools needed (cable needle, row counter) are also stored in the bag. These projects tend to live in the living room or my car, or hanging on the back of the door to the yarn room on a purse hanger – basically an elastic band running top to bottom on the door with hooks all along its length.

Resting Projects are the ones desperately hoping to grow up to be Projects in Rotation. They live, along with their patterns, in ziplock baggies in the yarn room closet, stored in those canvas sweater hanging dealies. The unused skeins of yarn for all Works in Progress are also stored in these same sweater hangers, in ziplock baggies.

I do try to take the time every few months to review the Resting Projects and move some of them up into Projects in Rotation. If I decide to frog any of them, the yarn gets put back into the stash as described in my earlier blog.