Is it Coronavirus? Allergies? Will I have enough Yarn to survive the Plague?
Check out the latest video! Hello! How are you? How is your social distancing going? Are you worried your yarn stash will deplete faster than the Covid-19 pandemic will end? I’ve been under the weather the last two days. I woke up on Tuesday with a very upset stomach, exhaustion, and mild headache. I spent …
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Crafting in the Age of Coronavirus
How are you? How is your social distancing going? (Please be social distancing) It’s hard to believe that it’s only been four days since California went under a Stay at Home Order. Although, in truth, my family had started practicing social distancing two weeks ago, a few days before LAUSD closed down. Watch the video …
The Future of Knitting Fundamentals
Okay so it’s been awhile since I posted. I’ve been super busy on the Knitting Fundamentals series and have I mentioned life is happening? Life is still happening. And I have some news. I’ve seriously enjoyed doing the Knitting Fundamentals Series I wanted to do a primer on the very basics of knitting. I wanted to …
Gotta Get this Off My Chest
I got my first critical comment. It was nothing mean or nasty, just honest feedback. I won’t lie. I felt kind of gutted. I’m a baby channel and a big video for me is one that grabs 10 views on day one. The comment was in regards to my Knitting Fundamentals: Episode 2 Long Tail …
Introducing Knitting Fundamentals
Oh boy was this a doozy of a video to get done! It almost feels epic. I won’t get into all the gory details. Let’s just say there was flu and technical difficulties aplenty. But, finally, I have my first video of the New Years up! Watch the video! In this video I’m introducing the …
Hard Truths
My latest video was a tough one for me. I didn’t plan it. I was upset hearing Kamala Harris was out of the race and wanted to talk about it, in addition to racism and issues in the crafting community. I turned out far more emotional than I expected and there’s footage I didn’t use …
Knit Tea is born
Tonight finished editing my latest video and thumbnail. Gonna be honest. Kind of disappointed that my Monday tutorial on Weaving Ends with Duplicate Stitch is languishing. Le Sigh. I’ve gotten nice feedback on my Interchangeable needle review. I knew going into this YouTube journey there were already a lot of videos out there and building an audience would …
Weaving in Ends with Duplicate Stitch
Weaving in ends, is it my least favorite step in knitting? Quite possibly. Is it extremely important?Most Definitely. As I’ll probably state a million times, I first learned to knit from reading books and I have to say most of them did a really poor job of explaining good techniques for weaving in ends. It …
The EPIC Needle Review is Here
I’d say more than a few times a month, I’ll be looking at one of my knitting Facebook groups and the question will come up: Which interchangeable needle set should I buy? Interested in purchasing any of the needles I reviewed? Below are links*. * As an Amazon Associate I earn for qualifying purchases. I promise …