https://knitting.dreamwidth.org/ Knitting - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:47:12 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios knitting community https://knitting.dreamwidth.org/97829.html Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:47:12 GMT https://knitting.dreamwidth.org/97829.html Posted by: <span lj:user='untonuggan' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://untonuggan.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://untonuggan.dreamwidth.org/'><b>untonuggan</b></a></span><br /><br />If you ever have an experience where you pick up two swatches of the same yarn and go, &quot;Wait...which needle did I use for which?&quot; because you swatched awhile ago, or were tired, or whatever...and you had a plan of keeping all your swatches in a little book with the yarn label (ha!) but now you are just proud if you actually swatch, or even swatch more than once...<br /><br />Tie a knot in the tail end of the yarn, one for every number of the needle you use. I suppose this could get compicated with chunky yarn (using US 10 needles) or smallern European needles, but I've found it really helpful so far with my socks. Because I can just pick up the end of the swatch and count the knots and know which needles I&nbsp;used.<br /><br />Perhaps this is obvious to others, but it took me about 8 months to work out a decent system so &nbsp;I thought I'd post it here.<br /><br />I'm going to have to learn another knot for half sizes of needles.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=knitting&ditemid=97829" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://knitting.dreamwidth.org/97829.html tips swatches public untonuggan 16