Page Marking

Each person has a unique way of marking their pages to let them know what they have achieved. When I was little, home copiers were not even available. My mom would take us down to the copy store and have copies of the work blown up and printed. We used only a yellow highlighter to mark what was completed. In todays world you can download a pdf and work off you your tablet. I'm still old fashion. I love my paper copies. Although I no longer need to go down to the copy store and get them. Always, Always make a working copy, on a tablet or paper. If for some reason you mess up or spill something you have the original to go back to. There are more highlighter colors available now then when I was younger and I take full advantage of this. My current way of marking charts I use 3 different colored highlighters and a pen. When I complete 20 stitches I mark those 20 stitches off on the chart in Green. Green is good to go. Sometimes there are ninja stitches or colors that are rarely used and I want to save them and do them all together. These stitches are highlighted in pink to call attention to them in the future instead of having to look really close for them. My current chart all solid black hearts get highlighted in pink because they are Kreinik. This keeps me from wasting my thread by having to restring it over and over for 1 or 2 stitches. I can thread my needle to do 10-15 stitches, do a stitch tuck the end, cut, and it is ready for the next one with out having to rethread my needle. My example is a ninja that I wanted to be sure and get because he was away from all of his friends. (pictures are blurry on purpose)

Ninja highlighted to draw attention

When I have completed the pink highlighted stitch I just go over it with my green highlighter and it makes it a dark color, but I know that stitch is done.

Now mess ups. They are highlighted in blue because they are sad. Sometimes blues have to be frogged and sometimes I can fudge them and make them work. This one I did 4 squares in the row instead of the required 3. The blue lets me know there is a wrong color in that spot. Again once I fix it, it gets highlighted over with green making it dark.

But what happens when I mess up one that is already green or highlight one in green that I haven't really stitched yet? That is where the pen comes in. These 3 managed to get highlighted and were not actually stitched. Found them when stitching in the area and things did not look right. So I trace around it with the pen. Again it draws attention to it but it is harder to see the pen then the highlighter. So, highlighter is first option, pen is backup incase it is already highlighted.

Then when I have fixed the problem with the square I / over it to let me know it is fixed.

What method do you use to keep track of what you have completed?