Stitch markers are tiny yet efficient accessories in a knitting bag. They maybe made of metal or plastic and look like teeny-meeny CUTE safety pins.
They are incredibly useful and I found them very handy, especially when I was a beginner. By slipping onto a knitting needle to mark a particular position in a row, it kept my work steady and clean. Today it is the key to keeping my sanity, as I mark each fifth or tenth row done with a stitch marker... Instead of counting the same rows twenty million times.
"Many small objects, in many small places, do many small things, that can alter the face of the world."
Some other equally important uses of these teeny-meeny heavy-duty worker bees are -
1. To hang on to dropped stitches until they can be fixed;
2. To keep a tab on which is the first or the last stitch when knitting in the round, so I know where to stop and begin instead of spiralling into some weird circular nightmare; and
3. To mark where the pattern has to change in the middle of the row.
"Appreciate the little things, for very soon you will look back and find they were the big things."
Yarn fromLana's Gato Negro