Gentle Row Counters

[suziehomemaker]

Has anyone ever seen a stitch counter that would be good for wooden/bamboo knitting needles. I have a ton of the plastic kind that work just fine with metal needles but I don't want to risk scraping my wooden ones. I have the clicker counter and the dangle one for circular needles but I was wondering if there's anything nicer out there that I just haven't seen yet.

Thanks!

[*KnitPixie*]

I'm not sure maybe someone else has some good ideas

[lynne082]

You could tie a piece of yarn around the counter and make a loop, and hook that onto your needles instead of the plastic. Or you could find someone who knows how to make jewlery and ask them to put another [smooth] ring on the plastic ring so you would use that instead.

Or maybe just paint it with clear nail polish.

Also, see this http://wendyknits.net/archives/000159.html

http://www.43things.com/things/view/2842

[letah75]

I am cheap, and don't want to spend valuable yarn money on stitch markers....or anything else for that matter.

So I use hair ties. The kind you can get for 100 for about $.99. I get the multi colored kind so that I can use one color for border and one color for counting if necessary.

[janelanespaintbrush]

This is what I do. They're not fancy, but you can hardly get more gentle than yarn. (I'm assuming your mention of the word "clicker" referred to row counting.)

[suziehomemaker]

I did mean row counters - sorry for the confusion!

[brownishcoat]

Suzie, you might get more responses if you update the thread title to say "row counters".

[suziehomemaker]

I think I did the update correctly.

I may just have to use the circular needle counter or the hand held clicker.

[janelanespaintbrush]

There are also a few old threads about row counters that you could probably find by doing a search.