[Nfb-krafters-korner] Tip of the Week - Keeping track ofstitches

[River Woman]

I can say the same, Joyce.  I am still struggling with it - I still try to 
do it the way I did it for over 50 years, and I get soooooo frustrated.  I 
went from advanced knitting, to pre-school level knitting and even then have 
troubles.  Recently you all told me to do the markers and now I am doing 
it - my R
Reader's Wrap has about 100 stitches across, so I have put a marker at the 
end of the border, and then one every 20 stitches of the basketweave pattern 
I am making in between the border. I still am having problems and still have 
had to ripit ripit ripit, but it is going better. I have always been a very 
fast knitter, and I need to SLOW down, which is HARD to do. If I was not 
able to use the CCTV, then I would NOT be able to fix my goof ups...I cannot 
feel the stitches at all once they are dropped or missing in action. And, 
most of the time, I give the project to my friend who tears it down and 
fixes it and then gives it back to me. If I had not had her the past 3 
years, I would not have been able to knit again, at all. I try to do as much 
as I can, labor over it, and sweat over it, but I still need the help of a 
sighted person when I am in knitting trouble.

Lynda River Woman
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Tip of the Week - Keeping track 
ofstitches


> This is an excellent question.  I must tell all of you this.   After I 
> went
> blind and decided to pick up my knitting needles once again and  give it a
> try, I tried or did it the same way as when I could see.  Man,  that did 
> not
> work.  I knitted by day and ripped it out in the middle of the  night.
> Days and nights were all turned around for me at that time,  too.  After
> ripping out the sweater I decided to try knitting for myself 22  times, I 
> learned
> that I had to be much more organized and I found that stitch  markers 
> every
> 10 stitches was what help me to relearn knitting blind.
>
> Now that I have been blind for almost 14 years and do a lot of knitting, I
> have not given up my stitch markers.  As some of you know I recommend a
> nice large bag of rubber bands for stitch markers and I use them on all
> projects.  When doing something in the round I like to put those rubber 
> bands
> every 20 or no more then 24 stitches.  It is not hard to mentally  count 
> 20
> stitches.  I would suggest if you are doing a pattern to stick  them in 
> there
> or even half way between a repeated pattern.
>
> I have not done a lot of crocheting since I went blind.  I do like to
> crochet, but I tend not to seek out crochet patterns.  I will say that the
> traditional metal crochet hooks are not the easiest or most comfortable 
> for me
> to use.  I have found that they have some that have padding and kind of a
> flat handle to hold and they are much better for my hands to hold onto.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 5/26/2011 9:59:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> amcarr1 at verizon.net writes:
>
> Tip of  the Week for 5/29/11
>
>
>
> Category:  Knitting,  Crochet
>
>
>
> How to you keep track of your stitches?  Do you  use Markers?  If so, what
> kind?  Do you divide stitches up into  groups of a certain number or by 
> the
> number of repeats in your  pattern?
>
>
>
> Submit your ideas for future Tip of the Week questions  to
> amcarr1 at verizon.net
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>
>
> Annette
>
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