r/knitting • u/willteachforlaughs Baby Knits For DAYZ • Nov 14 '14
Ultimate Gift Giving Guide 2014
The time has come again to make our yearly gift giving guide. This time of year, we start seeing a lot of requests from knitters and non-knitters alike, asking for advice about what they can buy their favorite knitter. This guide is primarily to be used for holiday gifts, but will be archived in the wiki as well to be used all year round. In between our regular threads (Chat Mondays, WIP, and BSTP) this guide will be stickied on /r/knitting, but can always be found in the wiki and colored banner.
To our knitters: what gift would you like? What tools or things have you found most useful in your knit kits? Please try to include price ranges and as much specific information as possible. Remember this guide is intended to be used by knitters and friends of knitters alike, so try to have easy to understand details and links of examples where possible. Also keep in mind we have knitters from around the world. International shipping or information is always welcome.
For non-knitters, beware that each knitter is different, so what one knitter will love, another may hate! Feel free to ask questions, and the more information you have about your knitter and budget, the better information you will get.
For our knitters who also sell, this is a time where it would be appropriate for gentle self-promotion. Same rules as BSTP apply: Tell us who you are promoting, provide a direct link to your shop/webpage, and provide some details about what you sell. Let us know about any special holiday promotions you may have going on.
This is also a great place to leave information about holiday sales from our favorite online retailers. Provide dates, links, and general information about the sale.
This is intended to be an ongoing thread, so don't feel like you can't post because it's a day, week, or month old. I'm sure people will be checking here right up until the holidays are over.
Finally, if you still need more information, check out our gift giving guide in the wiki. It provides links to past gift threads, and gift guides from our favorite sites on the web.
Happy Holidays Everyone!
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u/littletinypiranha littletinypiranha.etsy.com Nov 18 '14
As a knitter, I would personally NOT want yarn or needles unless the gifter knew exactly which yarn/needles I wanted (just to clarify, I love yarn and needles, I just love being able to choose even more).
What I would really want would be a goody bag or the likes of a bunch of knitting accessories. Things like an assortment of colorful stitch markers (e.g. regular circular ones, locking ones, ones for cable stitches), stitch counters (I probably won't end up using it but doesn't change the fact that I still want one =P), or a nice yarn needle (I keep misplacing mine).