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Dear users and authors,
do you currently have any useful tips and tricks for knitters and knitting patterns?
Let me know.
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Friday, May 4, 2018 at 10:39 AM
To make it easier to count rows in larger projects, I always thread a piece of yarn through every 10th row. It looks like this:

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