After reaching 50 (unceremoniously counted and not celebrated) videos, I’ve got all the YouTube ingredients down. Put some ALL CAPS words in your video title, don’t type or speak in complete sentences, if you do speak in complete sentences, make sure you chop them all up in the edit; and make sure you’re always launching a new series or rebranding yourself or something. That being said, I have a new video up called “WHAT I ACTUALLY KNIT: Cables & Diamonds Scarf” and if that doesn’t tick all those boxes, I don’t know what does.
So it’s a new series.
Now, I’ve started more knitting serieseseses on my YouTube channel than I’ve finished (why is that? There’s got to be some psychology behind the thrill of an amateur saying “This is the first in a new series of videos about ___” that someone should study), but this is one that I’m excited about and hope to keep building on. Building on very slowly because knitting but building nonetheless! As the title says, it’s all about what I’m actually doing with my time. What I actually like to knit when I’m not knitting for a tutorial.
And what is it I actually like to knit? I guess I’m still figuring that out. The actual number of knitting projects that I’ve truly sat down and knit for myself, for fun, for no other reason is very small. The actual number that I’ve actually finished? Even smaller. There’s maybe a hat and a scarf or two. So these “WHAT I ACTUALLY KNIT” (the caps are required in all instances of course) videos are a way of A: showing the world what real knitter really knits and B: forcing myself to commit to a project for once.
This project is a diamond cable pattern I’ve seen here and there. The video shows it off better than I can explain it.
The hardest part about the scarf? Finishing it. Since posting the video I’ve maybe added ten inches to the thing and oh my goshhhhh the desire to yank it apart and start something else is HIGH right now. I make mistakes, I get new ideas I want to incorporate, I get generally bored. If anything, knitting is about patience and actually tuckering down and working.