Tips and Tricks for Knitting

[Shandeh]

Do you have any helpful tips or tricks for your knitting projects?

List them here, so we can all learn something new!

[Jen]

Do you have any helpful tips or tricks for your knitting projects?

List them here, so we can all learn something new!

I try to be thrifty, so one of my tips is to cut up fast food restaurant straws and use them for stitch markers! You can get dozens for (basically) free!

[Shandeh]

When I work on knitting patterns that require paying attention to every row, I keep the pattern on a music stand. Bonus: the stand is metal, so I can use magnetic markers to keep track of my rows!

Christmas Stockings - Name Chart by Shandeh, on Flickr

[Kaleigh]

Allow me introduce you to my favorite knitting implement of all time:

paperclip.jpg

The paperclip!

I use them primarily as simple, colorful stitch markers because you can latch them in easily.

I've also found myself without a cable needle, so I bent one into a sort of V and used that instead! Once I was on the train and had almost finished a hat... except I needed to pull the yarn through. I picked off my handy-dandy paperclip, straightened it out, and twisted the top into a little loop. Voila! A makeshift paperclip needle!

The best part is that if I lose one it's not the end of the world, I can just stick another paperclip of any size on and I'm ready to go

[lialab]

Allow me introduce you to my favorite knitting implement of all time:

paperclip.jpg

The paperclip!

I use them primarily as simple, colorful stitch markers because you can latch them in easily.

I've also found myself without a cable needle, so I bent one into a sort of V and used that instead! Once I was on the train and had almost finished a hat... except I needed to pull the yarn through. I picked off my handy-dandy paperclip, straightened it out, and twisted the top into a little loop. Voila! A makeshift paperclip needle!

The best part is that if I lose one it's not the end of the world, I can just stick another paperclip of any size on and I'm ready to go

Very clever

[LuckyRainbow]

Kaleigh,

I have also been known to use a paper clip as a cable needle. They actually work quite well in a pinch. I also use them to neaten those cable stitches that don't look just right.