Also while you want to bring ALL. THE. YARN., and no one would tell you not to, perhaps take a moment to consider if you really need four balls of super soft yarn that cost $40/skein. You never know when you might hit turbulence and spill your coffee right onto your project. The horror! Bring yarn you know you can both enjoy and replace.

Invest in travel scissors. Seriously. These mini folding Fiskars are ideal. They are TSA approved, cheap, and fold up so the blade is covered and won’t stab through your case. And grab a mini tape measure because you may not realize how happy you will be not to have to convert the metric system!

BONUS PRO-TIP: PACK BOBBY PINS. Ladies, you know you have a million of these lying around! Bobby pins have gotten me out of all sorts of jams while crocheting on the plane. I was working with chunky yarn and didn’t have a tapestry needle with an eye large enough for the yarn. Enter the bobby pin! Sewed up my project with ease. I had a set of really cheap plastic stitch markers that magically all broke at once. Enter the bobby pin. Didn’t have any knit clips to hold my two project pieces together. Enter the bobby pin! A few strategically placed pins, and my project was neatly lined up. GET BOBBY PINS!

Download or even Print your patterns. Having a hard copy on hand to refer to will save you so much anxiety. Nothing’s worse than running out of battery on your phone or computer or not having WiFi to access the file. Plus, hard copies are easier to mark up so you can follow along or make notes or not lose your place when you get distracted and run off to the ocean while stitching on the beach.