One of the appealing things about knitting is that it doesn’t require a lot of tools or accessories. A couple of pointy sticks and some string, and Bob’s your uncle. If we were scrapbookers, we’d need whole rooms and craft tables and boxes and special totes and filing cabinets to hold all the scrapbooking papers and stickers and edgers and scissors and circle-cutters and lettering templates and adhesives and so on.
One might wonder how so many knitting stores do such a flourishing business, given that it takes us a long time to knit anything and our tools and supplies for each project are absolutely minimal. I’ll tell you how they do it: all knitters are compulsive yarn hoarders. While we are knitting a humble pair of socks, our minds are already working on the next sweater. A yarn sale will inspire us to buy more yarn than we could possibly knit in five years. A visit to a new or distant yarn store will yield a crop of ideas and we’ll stock up on several irresistible yarns in case they get discontinued. If we can’t decide between two luscious colours, we’ll buy both. If we’re bored with a knitting project, we’ll take a break to shop for luxury yarn on Ebay. We’re knitters. It’s what we do.
What we DON’T do is buy goofy knitting gadgets. Like these $40 LED knitting needles:
actually..those were invented for a woman who wanted to knit in movie theaters during the trailers. I too would like to knit in movie theaters..or outdoors on my poorly lit patio, at night..or in the car at night without my husband needing to turn on the interior lights.