My Knitting Discovery!

At least I think I discovered this method since I can't find it done by anyone else online.  And it only matters if it's online!  So, I'm knitting a neck warmer that has a cable pattern with a repeat of 28 rows.  The few knit cables that I have done before never took 28 rows so I had to find a new way to keep track of which row I was on.  Stitch counter?  Rewrite each row and put a Post-it to highlight current row?  Keep tally marks?  (All methods I've used before)  With every method I found online I thought, "Bridget, for sure you're going to forget to ___ (move the Post-it, click the stitch counter, write a tally mark)." 

So I kept thinking and thinking and came up with this:  put a stitch marker after the number stitch that corresponds with the row I'm on!  For example, in the photo, the stitch marker is after the 5th stitch (on the knit side of the row) so that is row 5.  Voila!  On the purl side, I just purl across, keeping the stitch marker where it is.  But on the subsequent knit row, I move the stitch marker over TWO stitches to make up for the previous purl row where I did not move the marker. 

"But Bridget," you're saying, "even with this method you could forget to move the stitch marker!"  But, so far so good!  I am finished with more than 3/4 of the neck warmer and have not forgotten.  Now that I wrote that, however, I've probably jinxed myself! 

I should probably make a video of my method and post it on Youtube before someone else does!

A hui hou!

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