Use the rosaries you make.

When you pray the rosary, use a rosary that you have made recently. This will help you understand the characteristics of your rosaries and what the experience of the people who receive them will be like.

If your rosaries twist, put in a reverse twist.

If you find that the loop of decades in your rosaries twists around itself after you use one a few times, put in a reverse twist before tying the knot that joins the two ends of the rosary cord. You can best determine how much reverse twist you should use by trying different amounts. The amount of reverse twist needed could vary somewhat due to variations in the in different batches of cord.

Does it matter which direction the knots are wound?

Yes, if you are using cord made from twisted fibers, the direction you wind the knots makes a difference in how easy or hard it is to tie a knot. See this link for more information.

Understand how to use your rosary making time efficiently by doing tasks that use the same tools and materials at the same time.

This is the principle behind the cord stick and the thread block. When preparing thirty rosary cords, instead of reaching for the scissors thirty times, reaching for the cord thirty times, measuring the cord thirty times, cutting a cord thirty times, and placing the scissors back down thirty times you can wind the cord around the cord stick thirty times and then reach for the scissors once, cut once, and place the scissors back down once. Another example of this is trimming the ends of the rosary cord from the completed rosary. It is more efficient to do this when you have thirty or forty rosaries than doing it when you complete each rosary.

1. There are some "exceptions which prove the rule" for this principle. That is, there are tasks when it is not more efficient to do them all at once because there are no steps that can be eliminated by doing them in a batch. For example, when tying the thread loops on the rosary cord you have to reach for a thread, reach for a cord and tie the thread to the cord. There is nothing different if you do this in a large batch or if you do it one at time before you start each rosary. Also, inserting the threading rods into the beads would actually be less efficient if you had six threading rods and inserted them into each row in the bead jig before starting the rosary. If you did that, you would have to reach for a rod and insert it six times, then after you transfer the beads to the cord you would have to place a rod down on the table six times. By using only two rods and inserting one into the next row of beads after you have transfered the previous row of beads to the cord, you eliminate two steps: reaching for a rod and placing the rod down on the table.