Knitting first, we're in the golden age of Yarns, there are hundreds of indie dyes putting amazing colors on a truly mind-boggling range of yarn bases both fiber content and weight. Even cheap yarn is better quality and comes. In a wider range of colors and bases, than ever before there's an abundance of wool yarn soft enough to wear next to your skin although you can get scratchy yarn if that's your jam. Then there are the patterns, thousands of them. Many of them free online, think of what you want to make, and there's a pattern out there too. So how do you like your needle's wool? Bamboo, steel, aluminum, plastic casing. Secure with 15 sizes of interchangeable tips. Straight, long short, they're out there if you are uniting the word, it's a great time to be alive.