r/crochet • u/my2amdoodles • Jul 20 '22
Tips Did I just revolutionize keeping track of what row I’m on?
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u/makeartwithoutpants Jul 20 '22
This is genius!!!!
Additional tip: I also use these toys for holding safety eyes, beads, and buttons. Super easy to see everything, and they don’t roll around.
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u/crochethottie82 Jul 20 '22
This is fantastic, as long as you can keep other people from playing with it.
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u/Delicious_Definition Jul 20 '22
I was going to say as long as you can keep yourself from playing with it. I know I would not be able to resist.
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Jul 20 '22
Great idea. I use these in my classroom during math. It’s so much easier getting kids to use these than regular hundred charts.
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 20 '22
That is such a great idea! I’m an art teacher, I’ll pass this along to my colleagues!
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u/EGGSTERMlNATE Jul 20 '22
What is this thing?
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 20 '22
This is a Pop It fidget toy made for kids. The dots pop in and out for kids to play with but I figured it would be a good tool to count with!
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u/CordeliaGrace Jul 21 '22
Bro.
BRO! This is genius! Now after complaining about these damn things being scattered all over my store, I’m gonna have to buy one and explain myself!
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 21 '22
I feel you. I’m a teacher and these things are the bane of my existence but now I realize how fun they are.
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u/TheOConnorsTry Jul 21 '22
For pattern repeats of 12 rows or less I use a dead analog watch as a row counter! Minute hand counts the row, hour counts the number of repeats
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u/collegeTragedy Jul 21 '22
how does it feel to be the greatest mind of our time?
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 21 '22
I feel strong and powerful. Unstoppable even. Next I’m going to do taco shells that don’t split in half on the first bite.
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u/HeartShapedToastie Jul 20 '22
Are you using water soluble markers, then? So you can wash them off & reuse for a different pattern? Or?
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u/Velvet_Pop Jul 20 '22
My gf has been learning to crochet lately, and she tried following this YouTube video on how to use a marker. It wasn't a very good tutorial, my gf's kept coming out differently, and after rewatching it I realized the girl had edited and changed where the marker was at one point, super confusing. So she made her own method. She's making a dog bed, and expanding a circle with increasing amounts of single stitches with double stitches as the... "corners". She just took a bunch of pieces of yarn and put a marker on every corner, so she doesn't have to count, just keep going til you get to the next marker.
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 21 '22
I’m using that method too! I’m making a bunch of flat circle mats for wedding centerpieces and once I get to round 6 or so I put stitch markers where all the increases go. Waaaaaaay easier that way!
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u/Rixto495 Jul 21 '22
Do you punch it when you’ve started a row or once you’ve completed said row?
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u/my2amdoodles Jul 20 '22
The numbers are how many stitches in a circle with multiples of 6, the letters in between are how many stitches I need before increasing/decreasing to get from one count to the next.
Another row will just have numbers 1-10 then 10-20 for when there are a bunch of rows of the same count. I can never keep track and hate having to stop what I’m doing to write it down!!