[Nfb-krafters-korner] ABACUS BRACELET?

[sblanjones11]

Joyce,
I think many of us would be interested in that abacus bracelent.  Sounds a
lot more convenient than an abacus, and very useful for counting rows.
Why don't you share the info with the list?
Susan 

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From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
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Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:39 PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting: counting rows

Cindy,
 
When I first started back to my knitting after I went blind, I used a  
regular index card.  This is how I did it...
 
I would turn down and tear it [Like a square/rectangle] across ten times
and 
then start off the next 10 rows by tearing off the folded down  squares.  I 
would use the far end shortwise top to bottom and tear it a bit  using that
for 
every 10 row count.
 
 
Since that worked OK for me I have since got much fancier.  I  purchased an 
abacus bracelet.[email me off line and I will look up to where I  ordered
one 
of the bracelets]  These bracelets are made from beads and have  2 rows of 
beads.  One row has 10 smaller beads and the other row has 10  larger beads.
So 
you can   count up to 100 rows.  I wore this  bracelet for several weeks
when I 
was working on a project and some folks had  made comments to me on how 
unusual my bracelet was.  They were totally  surprised when I told them what
it was.
 
Joyce



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