Teach me about stitch markers

[jesse_the_k]

I’ve been tasked with making some stitch markers, and I’m a knitting idiot.

7mm, 9mm, or larger rings? Closed loops? Hook like an earring but tighter? Small round clasp?

How simple should dangles be so they don’t catch in the work?

Can you point me to the ones you love? Warn me of the mistakes not to make?

Comments

smooth, smooth, smooth

[ironymaiden]

I hate rings with splits or jump rings. They inevitably get caught in my yarn. Opening rings sound like a cool idea but I've never had luck with split ones that weren't commercial plastic.

My favorites have soft loops rather than rigid rings - tiger tail or elastic. My absolute favorites are these yarn balls. They show up against my work and my needles, they're perfectly smooth, and they work on every size of needle I own without disturbing the stitches.

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[jesse_the_k]

My, those "monkey fist" stitch markers are beautiful in their own right. Thanks for the link: I'm plotting how I might be able to reproduce that design.

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[xeger]

Animated Monkey's Fist Knot. There's also a ton of other neat knots there.

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[jesse_the_k]

Thank you so much! That site IS AMAZEBALLS -- you have just made my week!

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[xeger]

While I'm thinking about it, The Ashley Book of Knots is your canonical dead tree book of knots, and is pretty amazing, to put it mildly.