Knitting for Geeks
May 12th, 2006
I was sitting in the kitchen with my husband (I can’t tell you how wierd it is to say that…husband) today as he cooked dinner, knitting and chatting. I wasn’t knitting anything overly complicated, but it required that I knit exactly the right amount of rows. I know counting rows is easy, especially when I only needed 56. I’m lazy whenever I can be, but I was unable to use my one row/stitch counter to keep track of my rows. The incessant “row ten, row ten, row ten, ten, ten,” became kind of annoying as I attempted to keep track of each row. I was kind of complaining about only having one row counter, and the project I was using it for had a bigger need to keep track on the counter. There were more rows to count if I lost track.
My brilliant husband came up with the greatest idea for the geeky knitters, or knitters with geeky significant others. DICE!! Since both of us are DnD players, we have tons of dice, of many different sides. Corey even has a 100 sided die, which is nothing more than a pain since it will just roll, and roll, and roll. These are such great knitting tools for temporarily counting small amounts of rows/stitches. If you’re knitting a bunch of small squares with small amounts of rows (as I am), dice are perfect!
No need to state the obvious. I am a self professed geek.
Oh. My. God.
What a great idea!! I play D&D AND knit too, and using dice does make such great sense!