A place marker helps you keep track of where one round ends and the next begins. You can use a piece of scrap yarn and put it into the stitch. More info on using place markers in crochet can be found in a post a wrote a while back. It’s in example 2 at the bottom.

I hope that helps!

I came across your site by accident looking for a good pattern for baby booties that I was going to get my Grandma to translate for me (all of the little codes might as well be another language for me).

I found the listing of abbreviations so helpful. They must seem like insignificant details to regular crocheters because I could not find them anywhere else until I came to this site.

What you do is absolutely amazing !! You are so clever and I am so jealous !!

Now I can’t wait until I get home from work to start some patterns on my own

Thank you for taking the time to share your creations !!

– Jess