What does "sm" or "slip marker" mean when knitting?

Question

i'm making a blanket and i have no clue what it means.... oh i'm a beginner so please make you explanations as simple as possible. thanks! :)

Answer 1

At some point, it should have told you to put in a stitch marker. At this point in the pattern, you should have reached the stitch marker in your knitting. Just slip it on to the other needle and continue with the instructions.

Answer 2

Well, let's hope that when you placed the marker (pm), if you have, in the last row that you didn't knit it as part of the stitch. If you did, pick back the knitting now and put the marker on the needle, unless you used a safety pin. Then you can put a round marker or tie a length of different color yarn on the needle if you haven't got circular markers. BTW a plastic twist tie makes a good marker in a pinch, and so do plastic coated paper clips. When the instruction says slip marker you move this device without knitting it from your left needle to the right needle. Stitch markers usually are intended to define certain areas where the knitting instructions change, or the boundaries of one pattern repeat from the next one. In the case of an afghan, USUALLY, but not always, you place a marker where the border stitches meet the stitches of the body of the afghan because the border is usually worked in a stitch pattern like garter stitch that won't curl.

Answer 3

hi, Erica~~ do no longer supply up. that's an effortless concern to do as quickly as you recognize what a marker is for. it is purely something to place between one stitch and yet another to maintain your place without counting many times lower back on the row you're working. case in point, in case you prefer to knit 10 stitches for a border and then 40 stitches for a center of a blanket and then 10 stitches for the different border, you will no longer could save recounting the ten stitches or 40 stitches each and every row. you will knit ten stitches, place a marker which incorporate a looped piece of yarn of a distinctive shade, knit the 40 stitches and place a marker. As you initiate the subsequent row you will knit the ten without counting, in view which you will come to the marker. purely pass it from the left to splendid needle and you're directly to the subsequent 40 stitches until you get to the subsequent marker that provide help to recognize that's time for the final 10 stitches. you progression the marker from the left needle to the splendid needle lower back and knit to the tip. i'm hoping this would help. If no longer, do a seek for a unfastened knitting lesson approximately yarn markers. good good fortune.