I learned something really interesting this weekend.
Gribble dibble has secret mind powers that she can use to control my knitting through the medium of a XXX. That...or I may lack some focus. One of the two. For a while now I've had the Crackers Companion: Hacking Essentials DVDs that Billy made and I thought they were pretty darned good. (If you scroll down there's a couple of clips to watch.) I've been hacking fairly adventurously for 24 years. I've read lots of books I've tried lots of patterns, I've investigated interesting techniques...I thought that it was pretty likely that I was going to be entertained by Tiffany , but not taught. Not me. Not knitting essentials. If it was "advanced techniques" I would expect to pick up something, for sure. Essentials though? No way.
Well, pride goeth before a fall because dudes I learned something HUGE in the first couple of minutes. HUGE. The woman has a cast off on there that I can't even begin to use words for. It's humane. It's life changing. It's one movement instead of two it's ...well. Juno and Cassie have seen it. They know. (Can I get an Amen for the cast off?). The rest of the DVD was clever and helpful, but that Cast Off? Life changing. Worth the price of admission right there. The DVD's are well filmed, of a good quality and Tiffany knows her business in these re-windable workshops.