Knitting Preparedness Plan

Well as we all know we as Americans have been asked to enact an emergency preparedness plan with a garbage can full of food, water, duct tape, plastic sheeting, toys for the kids, and medication. Well what about knitting? At the army supply stores they have handy little take and run kits with water and food for 4 people for 3 days. I've even seen similar type things at Costco. They have compact ones for your car or larger ones for if you become trapped in you home. God forbid! But as any good American should be prepared I propose a knitting emergency kit be assembled. Nothing makes a stressful situation easier to handle than a ball of yarn and a pair of needles. And knitting needles if sharpened can make swift work of disposing of intruders who are desperately trying to get at your stash because they foolishly failed to prepare their own knitting emergency kit.

Now you may think to yourself I'll just grab my project bag before I head out to make a life in the wilderness after the ice age comes/ nuclear holocaust/ Yellowstone volcano erupts/ flesh eating zombies begin to wander the streats/ cyborg mutant monkeys attack/ or whatever but in the chaos will you really remember? As you foolishly grab your purse and diaper bag, a handful of socks that don't match and fresh clean underwear scrambling to find the photo albums or to tear the hard drive out of your PC in hopes you'll some day be able to get your pictures off of it will you really remember your knitting?

Over the next few days I will be devising and enacting a 12 step plan that any knitting or crocheting American can enact in order to always be prepared for a knitting emergency.

Now I want to be clear a knitting emergency DOES NOT need be a national emergency. A knitting emergency can include such things as waiting in line at the bank, being in a bank that is being robbed, waiting in line Tuesday morning for an amazing deal at Tuesday Morning, when your children are driving you crazy, sitting in traffic, waiting in line at the DMV (this one is very serious), you have family over and you need to go hide in a closet to maintain your already unstable sanity, or my biggest one when your children or husband or dog fall asleep in the car and out of fear of waking them you don't want to turn off the car so you sit in the car with the engine running in a parking lot somewhere so they can be nice and rested before you subject them to some marathon shopping.

I'm sure we've all come across some of our own knitting emergencies so just leave a comment and I'll add them to my next post.

So today I will assemble a few different types of emergency kits to suit a few different situations. But the basis of the kit will always be the same, knitting. :)

If you come up with your own ideas as to what should be included in an emergency kit please let me know.
As the boy scouts say "Always be prepared."