Okay, having begun to knit in 2005, mostly to have something cheap to do with my hands while James was in New Orleans trying to get back into our neighborhood after the stupid hurricane, I have now become proficient enough at it to need real supplies. Right now I have a long plastic needle case with a few different needls of various sizes and a small yarn “stash” - I don’t think you could even really call it a stash, though. Every skein of yarn I have (and some I don’t have) is already alotted to a project, or it’s a bit of a skein from a different project.
My point is that I’ve decided I need an entire set of double pointed needles, circular needles, and straight needles, and I also need cable needles of more than one size and I really really need a place to put it all. Right now all the knitting stuff is organized in plastic bags stacked up inside a wicker hamper thing with a lid I got at Big Lots. My ferret Mab likes to scale it like MT. Everest, in hopes of reaching still greater heights, but I moved it away from the kitchen table, so she is routinely disappointed.
The only reason I say this is that I’m tired of getting a new pattern only to discover that I not only need yarn, but I also have to buy needles. I guess that’s why James has all those drill bits. He just likes to be prepared.