On small projects, I like to measure the length of the cord I need to use, because I feel like moving faster to the end.
When I do short lengths of cord, I stitch them down on to the project and, at the end of the day, I can see something done!
I remember that my mom use to have a bag with meters and meters of cord, rolled on match boxes (don’t know why ) all with some matchsticks left in. The evenings, at TV, with mom crocheting cord , always had a sound of rattling snakes from the matches in the box.
Then, when a big ball of cord was used for a project, me and my brother bet the number of the matches in the box and wait for mom to finish the ball of cord. 40 years ago, no computer, I-pads, x-force and still it was easy to play with almost nothing.
Let`s measure the cord:
All that you have to do is to run a stitch around a motif, and after, to take out the thread careful, in one piece, letting approximative 1-2 cm reserve and using it as a measure.
For the edge in our example, I run a stitch only half way (36 cm)and then I did one piece of wide cord, double the length of measured thread (72 cm).
For the flowers, four of them in my example, I measured one (approximative 60 cm )and after, I did four piece of narrow cord of same length.
Of course, if you prefer, is OK to measure how much cord you need in total(2.40 of narrow cord and 72 cm of wide cord plus reserve of 1 or 2 cm each) , do the entire length, and then cut and close neat each piece.
For big projects with same type of cord all over, just do some kilometers of cord :)) and happy croche-stitching after.
Only be careful to use same batch of thread if possible, because, believe me, even the small differences will be visible and drive you crazy.
Or may be is just me !!? Later I will tell you how to solve this colour difference issue.