How many of you ACTUALLY use a row counter?

General Knitting
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I use the blue turny one. It is as essential to me as the needles. I use circs mostly so at the end of a row its already there and I’ve just taught myself to turn it when I see it.

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I haven’t tried one yet, but I think I would really suck at remembering to click it.

When I was very new to knitting and saw a row counter for the first time, I honestly thought that it actually clicked itself every time you finished a row. I’m not sure how I thought it knew. Maybe if you’re using flats it could somehow sense when you were changing hands? :?? Anyway, I kept thinking it would be pretty handy, till I finally realized you have to click it yourself. :doh:

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SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN U R BEING MEAN ON PURPOSE, hilde?! :roflhard: :rofling: :roflhard:… You :frog: :roflhard: :rofling: that’s too funny!!

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I use the clicky one too. But only with more complicated patterns. My problem is not forgetting to click it but a “helpful” toddler who thinks it is fun to make the clicky sound. I have to hide the clicker from sight when he is up and then there is simply no point in using it if I have to get it out of hiding each time I need to click it.

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:roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:

Seriously - I had never planned to admit this, but I thought so too.
In my defense tho, I did imagine the actual mechanics…I thought the action of making the last stitch in a row would somehow trigger the “row tracker”. :rollseyes:

Imagine my HORROR when I found out the SHOCKING truth!

Click it yourself ? After EVERY single row??? Madness!

:roflhard: @ Hilde - that’s something I SO would have done…

Thanks so much guys. I’ll check online again - sounds like there are WAY more options than I realized.

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Gotta love the “technical” terms we all are using for these… No names were used to protect the innocent! :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:

[ul]I use the clicky one too.
I use the blue turny one.
i’ve got the hangy one, too.
I use the square loud clicky one
i use the red, click it one
I have used the dial one
It’s one of those cheap-y, turn-y ones [/ul]

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:roflhard: :roflhard: Well, when we speak in k, p, psso, tog, dec, inc, st, ssk, ssp, wyif, wyib, tbl, and dpn, what can you expect!

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hahahaha Jan, that’s funny! :roflhard:

KK, chalk another one up to “things that sounds dirty but aren’t” list

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I have paper and pencil with me so everytime I finish a row, I mark it off. Usually I right out all the numbers of the rows, or the repeats, and I cross it off after each one.

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I love my “Hangy Thing”. :shock:

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:roflhard: :rofling: :roflhard: :rofling: :roflhard: :rofling:

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:roflhard: Oh boy…and on the same day that someone asked about their 10-yr old joining KH! :roflhard:

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:shifty: You mean he wasn’t talking about a row counter? :??

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y’all have turned a perfectly innocent topic into something smutty and trashy

i have found my people

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Yup, that’s the specialty around here!! :happydance:

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:roflhard: :roflhard:

I did use the little turny things but gave up and now use pen and paper… LOL don’t ask me why but I seem to remeber to mark it when I do…

Jelly my son’s imaginary friend is named Jelly :rofling:

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What’s a row counter??? :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:

I like patterns that say something like “when it measures 8 inches” rather than a certain number of rows. When I am doing something with a pattern, I use little post it tabs you buy to mark book pages and move it underneath each new row. Also helps make sure you’re actually looking at the right line again when you have to look away.

I just do the paper thing if I HAVE to count.

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Hey, they do make one that counts itself! I don’t know how well it works in real life. Here’s a story on it.

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Let me throw my hat in here… I’ve not read all 3 pages… :slight_smile: but I will

I use one of the small boye ones… on just about anything that requries like:
Knit 20 rnds, purl 2 rnds, knit 5 rnds…

Just so I can keep track… however, I keep counting my rows too, cause I’m forgetfull and can’t remember if I ever turned that darned thing…

I’ve seen bigger ones, that you click… but I think that would be more of a hassle …

However, I’m eyeing this Digital one I saw in the KnitPicks catalog I got… I like them… because I know where I’m at… and if I’m off, it’s usually only one row and I can count the stiches… gives me a litle piece of mind… and let me tell ya … there’s not much mind left :slight_smile:

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oh nice…I like the digital one! I’m all about the toys.