When I go to my next class, I'm hoping I have everything I need. Have made a list and put into a special tool box with extra items to go with it. My rotary cutter has extra blades. Ihave extra machine needles and a couple threaders and thread and bobbins. My iron is small and always ready, lint roller. Other items also. couple extra pair of scissors. ANd my manual. I keep it for the portable in my machine carrier. Hand needles and grips for the fingers. I dislike when I'm trying to hear the instructor to have someone talking to me. Since my right ear is my bad ear, I try to sit at the very end of the left side of the table but as close as I can get to the instructor. That way I can tell people that I can't hear out of my right ear. then they just talk to the one on the other side of them. and Iwon't go to Hades for lying. I really don't hear out of my right ear (maybe 5%).