I Googled INKnitters reviews magazine the other day, and found lots of reader comments and reviews. Here’s one. They were fun to read. No surprise that most knitters loved the articles. That made me proud to be one of the long-standing article contributors to the magazine.
One lady commented: I like the articles, but when I look at some of the samples, I wonder “What were they thinking?” I had to chuckle. Some of my own samples are a little odd, and certainly not to everyone’s taste. The important thing is not “what were they thinking?” but “Hurray! They were thinking!”
Creativity requires lots of thinking. I come up with tons of ideas. I explore some of them beyond the thinking stage, with samples or sketches. But only a very few turn out to be great ideas. It’s the knitting version of the saying “You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince.”
I was very pleased to see how many readers get ideas from the articles, even if they don’t like the particular samples shown.