i've found the best way for me to keep my place on a chart is to use a highlighter pen to mark each square off does anybody have any other ways that they use or does everyone do this i use a erasable hilighter so if i go wrong it rubs out
I work on copies of original charts and make markings on them to organize myself better.
For big, white and black charts I use some highlighter pens - different colors to highlight repeatable stitches and orientate better, especially when the symbols are very similar.
When I am finished with a part of the stitching I mark/cross it with one color.
I use the thread parking method and to be sure where the thread is parked I put a little dot on the chart, in a corner of a cross stitch cell where it comes out from the cloth.
So after the work is finished the charts I worked on are for no use - they are very messy - that is why I keep original charts clean.
Yo utilizo boligrafo borrable de calidad...en concreto "Frixion" porque utilice otras marcas y no se termina del quitar del todo con la plancha....el color se quita pero queda una tenue linea que no se si es obsesion mia o que realmente se queda.....luego no se aprecia al enmarcarlo
I bought a bunch of those clear pockets that you put papers in to protect them. This doesn't doesn't work on all of them, but some that you find are slick enough that you can use whiteboard markers on them, that you can later erase.
I started off using an erasable highlighter too. But now I don't mark my patterns at all. I just seem to remember where I last am... but if I leave the pattern for a long time, I find post it arrow markers work. :)