Row Counter
Ever since I have started crocheting I have been wanting to by a row counter. I keep forgetting to buy when I go to the store. Well, last night My fiancee and I went to Wal-mart and I told him I needed to get one. He said,'I thought you already had one?' He was talking about my pedometer. You know those things that you are supposed to use to count how many steps you take.I had got one in one to those McDonald healthy meals. I never thought of using it to keep track of my rows. It's perfect I never loose count of my rows ever again. So, pull your pedometer out of the junk drawer, because you know you aren't using it, and never loose count of your rows again!
Sabrina. I saw the tip on using a pedometer to count rolls. Can you tell me how you can use the pedometer to count rolls. I am at a lost of how this is possible.
I count **rows** not rolls. This particular one you have to manually click. so everytime I do a couple of rows on a small project or every row for a big project I click the pedometer. This way if there is a change I do not lose count. you would have to have a pedometer that you can manually click.
I'm thinking it could even be possible to count with a non-click model, but you'd have to shake it each row. That might not work AS well, but it's a possibility.
This is not feasible for everyone, but if you are lucky enough to be a beader and/or woodworker, or you have one around - this works great for me. I made a crochet abacus. I drilled five holes in two dowel rod pieces that were about 5-6 inches long. Then I secured the dowel rods to a base by drilling a hole the same diameter as the dowel rod and filling the hole with jeweler's epoxy (carpenter glue would work too). Then, I strung pony beads on waxed cotton, using a three different colors of beads - I used white for "regular" beads, yellow beads for every fifth stitch, and royal blue for every tenth stitch. I did three rows like this for counting stitches. Then, the bottom two, I used red and green alternating beads to count the stitches. Before putting the bead strands on the base, I painted it and let the epoxy dry overnight. The pony beads are the sparkly transparent kind and I painted the base with some metallic spray paint from Krylon that has a "chrome" look. It's not exacly like chrome - but it does resemble silver art clay. I get complements on this all the time and, of course, the inevitable "What is it?" This works much better than any counter I've seen...even my Kacha-Kacha counter which I love and still use when I'm taking my project mobile.