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.