knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.
knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.
honestly I do NOT learn well from videos in general.
my ideal craft tutorial is an html page with detailed text descriptions and embedded images.
preferably line drawings, because they are often more clear than photos.
If a concept REALLY NEEDS video to get across how it’s done, I want an embedded gif no more than 5 seconds long.
(gonna make all this, on my website, for my own crafts, eventually. When I can make anything without all my muscles starting to hurt. rrrggh)