Knitting in the time of YouTube.....

Back when I started to knit - ten years after I first learned - if you wanted to learn something your choice was seeking out someone who knew how or finding a book.   That was okay as long as you could find the person or the book.   Pictures or a person with great patience helped.

Then came YouTube.

Although I have been knitting MANY years, I still have a lot to learn.   I like having a DVD to learn from, but I have had a growing love for the world of knitting help available on YouTube.

Right now, I am working on an intarsia piece.   Last night, I looked at it, grimaced, and put it aside.  I restarted the project as I have enough yarn.   I decided to look and see what I could find out that would make my intarsia work more fun (and that is using the term loosely) to do and look more like the vision I have for this project.

YouTube had a lot of resources.   Suzanne Bryan has a wonderful tutorial:

Not only did I learn a better way to do intarsia, but she very clearly showed short rows and tying in ends.   It gives me much more hope for round two on the project.