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YouTube is the new black!

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You know the phrase.....basic black, black goes with everything.....you can never go wrong with black! Well, YouTube is the new black! You can find everything on YouTube! Yes you can! (Remember, I learned to crochet via You Tube...yup, a 60+ year old CAN LEARN NEW THINGS! and a lot of this new information comes from You Tube!) Here's my "Learn to Crochet" post....with the links that YOU might want to follow to learn to crochet! You are NEVER too old to learn new things!) Music Videos, old movies, concert footage....I go to YouTube to see what I can find! Welcome to the world of Video Bloggers (or podcasters) After The Edinburgh Yarn Festival, I searched on You Tube and was amazed at how many video podcasters had travelled to this event. Aha, a podcaster lounge! These "Podcasters" are celebrities in their world of video blogging and they were there in the lounge to connect to each other and to meet and greet their followers! Searching for Edinburgh

Knitters need Entertainment!

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If you are like me, if you are sitting...you are knitting - right? Once you've got that stitch pattern down pat or when you are knitting swathes of beautiful fine gauge stocking stitch, you NEED entertaining! My latest project, Amaryllis by Marie Wallin (from her Springtime Collection ) is an interesting combination of challenging knitting, followed by LOTS of stocking stitch! The charted border of the body and the sleeves.....has some tricky irregular spacing...caught me out I have to admit! Then there are those LONG floats! But once those borders are done.....it's all stocking stitch....knitting to motor along with! Thank goodness for our modern technology! Technology today makes it EASY to keep yourself entertained while knitting! You can watch a favourite DVD (the more times you watch a DVD the less you actually have to watch it - as you are knitting you see the movie in your mind even though you might not be watching the screen! I'm right aren't I???)  You