Never snap up yarn that is conspicuously on sale too quickly.

Chances are, it is on sale because too many customers have complained about it for any or all of the following reasons:

--it is brittle and breaks off easily.
--it has too many burrs
--it feels itchy against the skin.
--it has inconsistent ply.
--it pills.

Don't be content with being a magazine-pattern knitter.

Knit like a Velazquez--how would he have knitted?

Knit like a Braque--how would he have knitted?

Knit like a Picasso--how would he have knitted?

Carry your knitting along with the various art movements. Have you ever heard of a post-postmodern knitter?

Life is like knitting. You follow a pattern and then you have to do everything for yourself.

Knitting Love Spell 1

As you wind yarn round your bobbin, visualize your loved one coming closer and closer to you.

People who claim that they can knit but cannot purl are truly incredible. It's like:

--playing tennis and not being capable of backhand strokes.
--writing from the point of view of a man and not being capable of writing from the point of view of a woman.
--being able to inhale but not being able to exhale.
--playing Scrabble, forming words, and not being capable of reversing those words.
--being able to perform onstage but not being able to work backstage and in the wings.

I've heard of writer's block, but purling block is quite unbelievable.

If you can multiply but not divide, all you have to do is use more hours practicing division.

If you can knit but "cannot" purl, it is possible that, the truth is:

--you are lazy to learn.
--you have poor motor coordination.
--you are exercising your defense mechanisms against the act of knitting.

In the Philippines knitting knows no economic classes. On one hand there are those who buy expensive needles and admire them so much that some of them are set aside and remain unused; on the other hand I know of children in Baguio City who, many years ago, knitted sweaters using old barbecue sticks and sold them to stores.

I observe in this country that, once the love affair with knit and purl has produced many functional works, the really discouraging factor is not progressively difficult patterns but knitting tools and aids that cannot be improvised.

If it is possible to raise watercolor and chalk pastel to the level of oil, then it is also possible to raise knitting to the same.

Once you have mastered knitting, BREAK THE RULES.

Experiment with split yarn.

Don't always end on a purl row.

Allow stitches to drop.

Variegate your tension.

Increase and decrease in stitches even when uncalled for.

Don't be conscious of stitches. Be conscious, instead, of knitted shapes.

Know the dangerous boundaries and dare to tread over them.

Push your work to the cutting edge.

Only then will you be able to take knitting to the level of real high fashion and serious art.

Down with "magazine knitting"--leave machines to do that.

Up with knitting as fabric art!

Learning how to knit is like learning how to play the piano. Your drills are the different stitches. Your pieces are the different patterns. You end up as a party entertainer, as  a concert pianist, or as a composer.

I have known of modern paintings that sold for a million dollars each.

I have yet to know of a contemporary, knitted work of art that sold for the same price.