Knitting Tools For Beginners

This bag is great and it can be used as a yarn storage and organizer for holding all your knitting tools and accessories. There are loads of pockets for knitting patterns, needles and all those knitting extras. I love all the compartments and dividers to keep everything organized.  

Point protectors are little rubber caps which come in a variety of styles and sizes. Simply put them on the ends of your knitting needles when you are done knitting and your stitches won't slip off the needles. This is a handy knitting accessory to have.

This is a great little knitting tool and it's the only one I use. This will help you keep track of your rows (as long as you remember to move it up after every row...sometimes I forget) There are many different kinds of row counters but I just like to keep it simple.

Here's a suggestion. While this row counter can be put on your knitting needle I found it to be kind of bothersome so I used the yarn tail that I started knitting with and attached it there. That way it's always with you and not in the way. 

This is an indispensable knitting tool and one of my favorites. Locking stitch markers are the greatest things. I use these little markers for so many different things in knitting and I just love them. They're like a mini safety pin so you can actually stick them in a stitch and lock it and it won't slip out.

They're also handy to mark where you made a mistake so you can go back later to fix it. I'm sure you'll find loads of uses for these little gems.

A tape measure is always useful and this one is just a plain and simple one to use. I'd buy a couple as they do wear out.

There's always something to measure when you're knitting so it's important to keep at least one in your knitting bag.

A small pair of scissors just for your knitting projects is handy and fits nicely in your knitting bag too. 

This little knitting tool is a needle and stitch gauge and it tells you what size your knitting needles are. Just poke the needle through the holes until you find the one that fits.

It also tells you what your knitting gauge is. Knitting gauge means how many stitches and rows you have per inch. See that little slot on the left side? That helps you determine how many stitches and rows you have per inch. You can read more about gauge right here.

At some point you will need to place a few stitches on a stitch holder. Stitch holders protect the stitches from unraveling while you work on the others.

They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. These here show a small, medium and large size.

A yarn (tapestry) needle is a blunt end needle used to weave in the ends of your finished project and sew up the finished pieces of fabric. Try to find one with a big eye in it so the knitting yarn will slide through easily.

I use a crochet hook mainly for picking up dropped stitches however it's also handy when you find that the ends of your yarn are too short to weave in with the tapestry needle. I would get one to have on hand.