Your "Essentials"

[Matdredalia]

So, everyone has their little knitting essentials that they can't live without. For some it's a certain set of needles, for others it's their stitch markers.

What I want to know is what are the 1-3 (or more!) things you can't live without when knitting (aside from needles and yarn )? (It can be a certain bag, book, tool, whatever!)

I'm making my "Christmas list" and I need some good ideas for things that will make my knitting easier and help me learn more.

My Mother-In-Law is insisting on spending an obscene amount of money on me for Christmas (sigh), and it's either tell her what I want, or let my husband do it, and well.....I'm not really inclined to go with his ideas, lol. I'd much rather have her buy me tools that I can use to create beautiful things for my family with for years to come.

So, list list list!

[Jan in CA]

Aside from my needles and yarn....

blunt tip scissors
stitch markers
coiless safety pins
needle gauge
tape measure
pen/pencil (ror keeping track of rows)
paper
crochet hook (for picking up dropped stitches)
dental floss
yarn needle

[knitncook]

Stitch markers
Guage measuring tool (I love the Opitons one)
Small scissors
Row counter
A dpn for picking up dropped stitches
Tea

[Matdredalia]

Tea

Buahaha, that's awesome. (^-^) That reminds me, I need to pick up some more Chamomile.

[willi.t]

Dental tool (from Patternworks)
Blunt needle
Tiny Scissors
Stitch Markers
Coilless safety pins
Tape Measure
Needle gage
Dental Floss
And then you just keep adding and adding until you can't find anything in that little bag, so you start another.

[GiddyKnitter]

Scissors
Tape measure
Pins
Needle protectors (sheep)
Stitch markers
Plastic wallets (to keep my patterns crease free)!!

[Jints]

blunt sewing needle
tape measure,
needle gauge
pen/paper/calculator
scissors.
safety pins

[Eccie]

Point Protectors (which are known as the little things that keep momma's knitting from falling off the needles when we decide we absolutely have to move it for some reason while mom's in the bathroom.)
and A row counter

And I thought I was the only one who using dental floss in knitting :P

[Matdredalia]

Wow. Tons of suggestions, woohoo!

I'm curious though....what's the dental floss for? O_O

[bip]

You can never have too many:

-Gauge checker tools
-Stitch markers
-Row counters

And you can never have too much Malabrigo!