[Nfb-krafters-korner] cable sweater

Mon Nov 28 17:52:47 UTC 2016

I use my 24 peg loom and move a key ring from peg to peg.  When traveling, I have a holder for quarters with a spring in the bottom.  I remove a quarter and put it in my pocket.  When I am finished my count, I reload the quarters into the holder.  This holder is good for travel because the coins will not fal out.  I got it at the container store, in MD.
Check on line.

Terry P.

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From: Annette Carr via Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org] 
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 5:09 PM
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Hi Bernice,

My preferred row counter is an abacus bracelet.  Joyce knows of a site that sells them.  It has 2 strands of beads.  One strand might have small beads or textured beads, and the second strand might have larger beads or smooth beads.  There are usually 9 or 10 beads on each strand.  There is usually some type of loop that each strand passes through.  When you want to count 1 row, you slide 1 bead from one of the strands through the loop to the other side of the bracelet.  When you are ready to start row 2, you move a second bead from that same strand through the loop.  You keep doing this until you have completed 9 rows.  When you start the 10th row, you slide the beads on the first strand all back to the other side of the loop, and slide 1  bead from the second strand through the loop.  This beads represents 10.  When you start row 11, leave the 10 bead where it is and now slide a 1 bead through the loop.  It is very much like an abacus.  Depending on your pattern, you might not need to count past 9, so the second strand can be used to keep tract of each set of rows (pattern repeats)  you have done.

When I do not have my abacus bracelet or my actual abacus, I've used creative things like pennies, pasta, beans, paperclips, jellybeans, cough drops, etc. and moved them from one container to another, or from 1 pocket to another.  Sometimes I use a large round stitch marker, and clip a locking stitch marker on it to indicate each row or pattern repeat.

HTH,
Annette

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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] cable sweater

Hi again,

I corrected my mistake and have gotten markers from upstairs.  I am off and running again.  I used to use my braille abacus to keep track of row numbers, but I have absolutely no idea of where it is.  I got two small 6 oz Tupperware containers, put 8 pieces of macaroni in one, and each time I go round I move a piece to the second container.I have a cover on the top one so if it falls, which it already has, I don't lose track of which row I completed.

If there is a blind friendly row counter out there I would be glad to hear of it.

Bernice and the sweet Octane.

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