No, not for the new stash.I was in Austin last weekend and two knitting shops there had Mini Mochi, which my LYS was out of and was not getting any in until April! So I bought two colorways of that (106 and 108) and a skein of Rio de la Plata, kettle-dyed sock yarn from Uruguay. It's really soft and I'm curious to see what it will look like knitted up.
So, nope, not for the stash. Stash is a good thing. Stash is a necessity.
But you will notice a row counter in the photo; it's attached to the sock I'm working on. I know lots of sock-knitters, but only one of them, Jan, a knitting designer and teacher, uses a counter. No one else I know uses a counter, and I tried, I really tried, not to be so compulsive with this pair of socks. I should be able to eyeball the cuff and foot. I took off the counter after I turned the heel and tried to go without it. I just couldn't. I had to put it back on.
I think that maybe I'm an undiagnosed OCD knitter.
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I think if jan uses a counter you're fine using a counter too. The fact that you think there's something wrong with it is what makes it a problem.
Isn't knitting supposed to be fun and relaxing and there are no knitting police? If using a row counter makes you happy, use a row counter. I just never can remember to click it when I finish a round. But I did count rows on the finished sock and put markers every ten rows on the second one, so that's not any better than you!
I'd use a row counter if I could remember to click it. For me, it just causes more stress because tI wonder, 'did I click it?' and then I try to count...
It works better for me if I just eyeball the thing. So far, nobody has noticed any one sock being shorter, which may mean my method works, or that my family is not very observant!
I forget to click the row counter too, and that's what makes it especially odd that I must use it. I know it's not an accurate count, and somehow, that doesn't bother me.
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