Music Stand for Knitting

 Today I was doing some two-color knitting and realized again how handy it was that I had purchased a metal music stand to assist with the project!  I am so happy the thought came to me a couple of years ago.

Sitting with a pattern on my lap, trying to keep everything needed to knit a pattern, whether cables or multiple colors, turned out to be more hassle than I enjoyed. I had done it for years but finally began thinking of a better way.  So tired of things falling to the floor and having to try to reconstruct where I had been in the knitting. Enter the metal music stand!

 

This is the set up.  It is perfect for doing this work. I have the stand set up on my right where I can just glance up from my knitting to see what the next stitches are.

This metal music stand is so great to use with knitting that I talked Dear One into getting me a second one for downstairs where I also knit!  (I have a project downstairs that I started many years ago.  Since I became accustomed to reading charts for patterns, the "word charts" no longer work for me very well. Actually, I have to keep looking up ALL THE TIME and that cuts down on how many stitches I get done in a given amount of time.  I have to convert that pattern to a chart, which will happen, I think.  I hope, anyway!)

You will notice on the music stand I have the wire "clamp" which holds one side of the pattern page and some blue clamps on the left side of the paper, thus holding it securely in place.  This is very handy when I get up to go around the stand to move my swivel rocking chair away from the wall (again!  it seems to walk back to the wall every other day!!) and knock over the music stand.  The page stays in place.

You will also see that I have a small magnetic strip that I use under the pattern row.  So great a help!  

Anyway, I love this stand!  The lip on the bottom holds the knitting needle cases so I can put the needles back in the case when I am done the project. I like to keep the needles in their original cases so I can easily store them and easily know what needles I have.  You can see the edges of two Chiaogoo needle cases at the bottom right of the photo.  

Also often I put stitch markers on the metal clamping arm so I can just pull them off to use. Nifty!

It seems to me that these music stands were only about $20 apiece, in case you want to go and do likewise...