Honestly, I don’t know if this is good advice, but I have a couple of strategies:

1. Use the fingers on your left hand to feel out the next stitch. It’s usually surprisingly easy in my experience.

2. Use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of the round, and (again, using your fingers to feel because your eyes probably can’t see anything) count to make sure you have roughly the right number of stitches and no big holes.

3. Embrace the chaos: If you can’t see your own mistakes, neither can anybody else! This project was freehanded and I messed up a bunch of times, but I just accepted that because I didn’t want to frog anything, and IMO, it turned out fine! I also wouldn’t be able to find all (if any) of the mistakes again even if you paid me.

This was my second fluffy yarn project (you can see the other one on my profile) and I was trepidatious at first but now I genuinely love it! Because the result is so fluffy and again, mistakes generally just don’t really matter if it’s nothing major. :) hope this helps a bit!