Knitting Kits

Week 8 = Knitting Accessories
Day 2 = February 21, 2014


     These are my knitting kits. I keep them with my knitting bag along with my knitting project so that I have them wherever my knitting goes. Some knitters use a Ziploc bag, pencil case, make-up bag or others container, as long as it holds all possibly accessories one might need when knitting.

     Here are the items that are in the 2 kits and what I use them for.

  

• Pencil Box
• OttLite - really bright and awesome light, in case there is not enough
• Small Scissors - for cutting yarn
• Calculator - to help figure out measurements,
• Tape Measure - to measure your knitting project
• Nail File - to keep your nails nice and smooth
• Seam Ripper - helps as an alternative scissors
• Dental Floss - life line (picture of gray and blue knit shawl above) used as a row marker to save all you have knitted to that point in case you need to pull out some future rows
• Highlighter Tape - mark your place on a pattern
• Thread - helps with sewing in your ends with ribbon like yarn
• Hand-held Mini Flashlight - cute little flashlight
• Knitting Gauge - helps measure knitting needle sizes and gauge of knitting project
• Name Badge - for knitting events
• Yarn Holder - spare piece of cardboard to wrap yarn around
• Crochet Hook - to help with dropped stitches
• Yarn Label - spare labels occasionally turn up in my knitting kit as I finish projects
• Prescription Bottle - contains the following
• 3 Tapestry Needles with curved tips - for sewing in your ends or threading a lifeline through the stitches on your needle
• 2 Tapestry Needles, regular - for sewing in ends or threading a lifeline through the stitches on your needle
• 1 Locking Stitch Marker - for marking your project
• 8 Toluca Stitch Markers - for marking your project
• 20 Circle Stitch Markers - for marking your project
• Sewing Needle - used to help fix mistakes
• 4 Safety Pins - helps hold 2 pieces together

• Make-Up Case
• Small Notebook - for pattern configuring and contact information of friends
• Post-It Pad - for giving your friends information or notes
• Highlighter Post-It Pad - really cool for marking patterns or the pages of a book with a see-through piece of paper (then you do not have to keep moving it)
• Highlighter - to highlight parts of a pattern or instructions
• 2 Pencils - for writing
• 3 Pens - for writing

     So that is my 'Must Have' list when just casually knitting. Unbelievable that I need so many extras. There are many different little goodies that other knitters have hidden in their knitting kits.

Question of the day

What is the strangest item in your knitting kit?

Knitting with Kits,


Victoria