Keep your friends close…

…your enemies closer, and your knitting tools…closer yet!

Knitting tool necklace

While I’m working my Peekaboo motifs, I need stitch markers, and a cable hook for working the brioche 4 stitch decreases. I’m not always sitting next to a table, so it’s easier to wear my tools on me.

This is just a silk cord with a hook finding (it’s half of a necklace fastener; there’d be a little ring to slide onto that silver J). It can hold stitch markers that I use to note where a motif begins and ends. The gold cable hook can hang on the silver J, too, or in the little loop that the silk cord is threaded through. The decorative pink stitch marker is for weight, so that the necklace hangs down instead of flopping around.

Each of the motifs on the Peekaboo Cowl had me using the cable hook. Having that hook on my person kept it handy!

The same is true for the Peekaboo Shawlette (coming soon).

How do you keep your cable needle/cable hook handy? I don’t use one for most cabling, but when I need it, I need it!

4 responses to “Keep your friends close…

  1. You is one clever small person !!! 🙂

  2. I have the KnitPro Magnetic necklace. I may have to dig it out again. I used to use it to hold stitch markers, especially when I’m increasing stitches. I tended to forget I had it on and then I’d knock the stitch markers off it. Instead I just keep my tin of knitting notions nearby.

    • My favorite markers are the flexible green and purple circles from Clover. No magnets for me! I do keep a stash of markers in my project bag, but it’s a pain to get them in and out. And digging for the cable hook is no fun, either. Necklace to the rescue!

  3. Good way to keep your notions close!