Tara wrote:

Of course none of us is purely in one category, or the other
(otherwise I would never have any finished things).

Let's try this a different way. You've signed up for a difficult
class at your local rec centre. You have a list of materials and
tools to bring to class, the pattern to be handed out by the teacher.
You pack up the required yarn, the correct needles, etc in your
workbag. You grab your workbag and head off to class. Before you
enter the classroom, you open the workbag and realize you grabbed the
wrong one; but this one has yarn (wrong size) and needles (appropriate
to the size of the yarn).

Do you leave without entering the class as it would be a waste of time
not having the correct materials? Enter the classroom, explain the
error to the teacher and take the pattern home to figure it out on
your own? Stay for the class, knowing that what you did wouldn't be
part of the finished product? Other options?

I'm gonna muck this up some more with this response, but this is the way
I am. If it's a technique class, like learning techniques to make a
traditional gansey, I stay; the sample can be done with any yarn-needle
combination. If it's a class that was intended to produce a finished
product - let's say a throw pillow using bulky yarn and #15 needles and
all I have is bedspread cotton and 2-mm needles - I go home. I would
explain to the instructor just why I was gonna leave, though, and ask
for a copy of the pattern; after all these years I can make my way
through most patterns, even those charted ones that Noreen despises so
much g

The Other Kim
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