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Chapter 2If I could give one piece of advice to people beginning to use yarn, this is it: Stay away from patterns. The people who write patterns are highly skilled, sophisticated designers, and your early (and middle and late-middle) experiments will look crude and clumsy compared to their work. But--BUT--the experiments will be YOURS, while other people's patterns will not. It all depends on what you want--if you want to make pretty things that other people admire, then patterns will help you. But those pretty things and that admiration will become addictive, and the longer you use other people's designs, the harder it'll be to create on your own. If, however, you want to use your yarn as a painter uses paint, you need to develop the courage to be crude and clumsy and to make useless things that you throw away. Eventually you'll figure out how to make useful things if you want to, because you'll be developing technical skill and design intuition with each experiment that you toss in the trash. Next Page Return to Table of Contents
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