Hey, so I was thinking about how to make a row counter that I could keep on my circular needles, that wouldn’t induce laddering or get in the way while knitting. I was using my kacha-kacha one for a while, but I got frustrated w/it slipping off my arm chair, forgetting about it, etc. :wall:
So! Dug around in my bead supplies and came up w/3 differently-sized toggle rings, hooked jump rings on the 2 smaller ones, threaded a tiny barrel row counter on a headpin w/beads and a lobster claw clasp, and … (drumroll):
Tah-DAH!! :happydance: I just hook the counter onto whichever ring size is right for the job - placing it wherever each round begins, and when it’s not in use I hook all 3 rings on the clasp and throw it in my knitkit. Fits up to at least a US 13 needle size!! YEA!!!
I agree – the ring on that universal counter is too big for most of my projects, and it just seems to get in the way. I usually get around it by hooking the counter on a locking stitch marker and attaching the stitch marker to the work just below the needles. Your solution is even better.
Hah! love y’all’s feedback. Sure WISH there were millions involved :verysad:
Howdy there, Papergirl! From a fellow ex-Texan (via NC for now) I actually saw that Universal row counter in a LYS for FIVE DOLLARS (at least Knitpicks’ price is fair!), and thought - 1) man, that ring is too big, and 2) I could do better. I also like to make things pretty - I went overboard when I found out I could make my own stitch markers, and beaded up 14 sets. FOURTEEN SETS. Now what am I gonna do with 'em?? :teehee:
Honestly, I swear I almost (ALMOST, but not quite) get a bigger kick outta the gadgets of whatever craft I’m doing, than the actual MAKING of whatever it is (jewelry, knitting, etc.). Especially if I can make them … some bizarro techie gene in me, I’m guessin’! Anyone else have this um, … condition??
I think I have that condition too. I own not ALOT of stuff…but I am drawn like a bug to a zapper if I see a bead store…I have TONS of beads in a box in the desk…I bought…but just never found a good use for…but they were so preeeeeeeety… :roflhard: They called my name…
Ooohhh…maybe I should make stitch markers…maybe after I get some projects off the needles…
I bought that, and well, it keeps sliding off the ends of my straight needles. I was thinking about cutting it, and making it smaller. Nothing is worse than having that on the end of a needle and having it fly off, only to not know where it landed! :-x
Preeeetty beads, heeeere pretty pretty … Just like a bug to a zapper is right - ZAP!! there goes your wallet. Man, bead and yarn stores could bankrupt me easily if I didn’t watch it.
And dink - those thin flat rings Clover has for stitch markers? The exact same thing happened to using those dang things as your universal row counter, and I never did find some of them. :wall: I find that the (slight) weight of the beaded stitch markers, and now the adjustable row counter, helps to keep it on the needles w/o flipping off.
I actually saw that Universal row counter in a LYS for FIVE DOLLARS (at least Knitpicks’ price is fair!), and thought - 1) man, that ring is too big, and 2) I could do better. I also like to make things pretty - I went overboard when I found out I could