Frugal Knitting Haus

June 10th, 2009 by admin

Hi Ruth -
I use loops made from short scraps of yarn as stitch markers. (I use a simple overhand knot, called a half hitch to combine both ends to form the loops.) This may not be new to many of your knitters, but newer ones may not know this.

I go one better with these loops. If I am knitting with straight needles, I use different colors for decreases and/or increases in the rows. This way I don’t forget what goes where in a complicated pattern. When knitting on a circular needle, I use a different color for my end/beginning of the round as well. This way I don’t have to rely on my counting or my guess to know where I’m at on my project.

This works great for me and costs me nothing. Just like you, I am FRUGAL too.

Myra from Israel