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!