What to store for crocheting or knitting?

If you crochet or knit you know the mental/physical therapy it can be. If you are in a stressful situation, or long hours with nothing to be able to do, wouldn’t it be great to be able to use that mental/physical therapy, which ever you need? Also while you are reaping the benefits of the therapy you can also be providing socks, hats, mittens and even bandages for your family. Even if you do not crochet or knit at this time, maybe if you have nothing else to do, you can finally sit down and learn. So if you have all of the ingredients such as hooks and needles, yarn, scissors, tape measurer and instruction books it could save your sanity when times are hard.

If you already crochet or knit you know that you need to have such items as crochet hooks, knitting needles, yarn and instruction books and of course a pair of scissors and a tape measure.  There are a few other accessories if you knit that are nice to have such as line markers and stitch holders.  If you don’t already crochet you will need a few different sizes of crochet hooks. You use one hook at a time to crochet; however, there are several different sizes of hooks. If you choose one from the smaller sizes, one from the medium sizes and one from the larger sizes that should cover most of what you will be crocheting. In knitting you use two knitting needles at a time. The same would apply as far as sizes to have.   In my opinion, the best type of thread to have would be 100% cotton. To me cotton is best for cold and hot weather because it wicks away sweat from your body.  As far as the colors go, I tend to keep more to dark solid colors so as not to stand out in a crowd. Also if you tend to keep to 1 or 2 colors then you can have more thread to use than if you need 3 skeins of one color to made a project and have some left over then what do you do with it?  Now when you make bandages it would be better for the yarn to be white, so that you can bleach it to keep them as clean as you can.  And on the instruction books a basic crochet book that shows all the different types of stitches and how to determine gauge and one that had a basic hat, mittens and sweaters would be best. And that may take a few instruction books to get that information, also if you have young babies you may need one for their size too.  With knitting instruction books a basic stitches and how to determine gauge and basic hat, mittens, sweaters and socks would be the best to have. You can get instructions, gauges and patterns for free on the computer and if you go to You Tube you can watch someone teaching the how to.  Knitting also uses some accessories such as line markers and stitch holders. Those would be nice to have, however, they are not mostly necessary.

If you can store these items in your storage you can use them yourself or use them as trade goods, which are things that you can trade for something that you really need such as food, tools or whatever. And if you go to garage sales and second hand stores you can pick up these items for a lot less than if you go to the specialty store and purchase these new. There are lots of things to gather to be totally prepared, if you have to purchase everything new it may be the difference from having what you need and not having it.