Mark my woulds
Thursday November 21st 2019, 11:23 pm
Filed under: Knit

Does anybody else do this? I sometimes put a bit of random yarn next to the second stitch in from the edge as I start knitting so that I have a marker to show just how much I’ve gotten done that day and to nudge myself to do better after days when I don’t.

Sixty-eight hundred stitches yesterday was a bit much, though; I mostly gave myself a break today.


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It is not like I don’t have enough random bits of yarn. But right now I am not knitting anything large enough to need it (garter scarves….

Comment by Holly 11.22.19 @ 7:30 am

OCD pops up now and then

Comment by Sherry in Idaho 11.22.19 @ 8:02 am

I often use one of those little safety pin-ish locking markers on the edge of a “slog” project.The Dr. Who season 12 scarf I just finished knitting comes to mind, all 41,952 stitches of it (not to mention the bind offs on both ends).

Comment by Nancy G 11.22.19 @ 1:31 pm

I’ll sometimes put a locking stitch marker on to see progress. More often, I’ll wish I had put one on, so I could know how much I did in a day!

Comment by ccr in MA 12.01.19 @ 11:57 am



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