Make Something Cool Every Day for April: Day 1

the inspiration for my first project came by default as i was trying to finish a hat that I've been carrying around in my purse for a week working on little by little whenever I can get a row or two in. I got to the last row today and i needed to count out how many stitches I had in each row so that I could bind off giving the top a fold so that it looks like cat ears. As usual I reached for the closest small round object that I had at least ten of (usually it's safety pins) and started counting out the stitches in groups of ten and realized that this is the perfect oppertunity to make a set of stitch markers.

these are my makeshift stitchmarkers


and these are my new handmade ones that i put together this afternoon