One of the goals I had in this project was to learn about how best to utilize stitch markers. As I mentioned in my post about picking a pattern, one of the reasons I chose this pattern was because there were specific instructions on using stitch markers in the directions. Now with a little bit of circular and lace knitting experience under my belt, I have one thing to say:
I. Love. Stitch Markers.
They seem like a fairly intuitive tool, but they did take some getting used to – once I realized I was just meant to slip them on the needles like a stitch, rather than fasten them to individual stitches, I was off the races. That being said, it was a bit of a rough start.
One epiphany I had – that felt very clever at the time, although most people would likely just see it as common sense – was to link two markers together to designate the marker at the beginning of the row from those mid-row. The pattern does recommend this through the use of different coloured stitch markers, but since I don’t have enough stitch markers of one colour to utilize this method, this was the approach that I took (however, it took an embarrassingly long time to find this alternative solution…which, I’ll admit, has left me with a slightly wonky start to my scarf, but I’m hoping if I just fold that over when I wear it no one will be able to tell).