Stitchmarkers are overrated. I am not saying I do not have a few, but they are usually came to me as presents, or part of some other purchase. As I said in an earlier post (about the lace neckwarmer), I rarely need them, the first and most important thing for a knitter should be to learn to see (or to "read") their knitting. If I need something to mark, lets say a certain point (like when I am counting the rows for stockings, and do not want to start from the beginning, I mark a round number, like the 30th or 40th row, and the next time I only need to count from there), or let's say, I need to see where the sides are on a sweater to place shaping, I use safety pins. I also often use safety pins as stitchholders, especially, when I knit my half-fingered mittens. Even if I do put some markers.. safetypins because the pattern is big and complicated, I find, that once the pattern is established, they bother me, and I take them out.
What about you? Are you using stitchmarkers? If so, what kind? The simple plastic ones or fancy handmade ones?
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