Knitting

Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas

Printable Row Counter Makes Your Notes Prettier

by

Download a free row/round counter printableSometimes I can find — or actually get up and bother to find — a real row counter when I need one for a knitting project. But usually I just make hash marks on whatever piece of paper/back of an envelope is handy.

That’s a perfectly legitimate way to go about your knitting life, but if you want to use something a little cuter, check out this printable from Bubi Knits.

This is great for when you need to count more than one thing, like if you have cables that cross on different rows or you’re counting for a stitch pattern as well as decreases. You can print out multiple sheets and use them to count different things. (Just remember to label them so you know what you’re counting where!)

How do you keep track of rows when you’re knitting? I’d love to hear if you have a different system!

[Photo via Bubi Knits.]

Comments

  4. I use the markers that are like a paper clip and easy to move. I place one on each 5th row until i reach the pattern repeat and then repeat the process.

Have you read?

Knit a Log Cabin Blanket with All Your Scraps

I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn. 

It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small. 

In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches. 

If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come. 

If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you. 

I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?). 

Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry. 

Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns. 

[Photo: Kristen Finlay]