RE: The power of skills

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😂😂😂😂 thank you darling and no i did not learn all of this in one month.
In fact my tutor never taught me anything related to clothes or bags.

Lets just say i developed myself. My passion for art actually bring out the creative mindset.
And i made alot of research too about crochet. My first order was a customised hat and i refuse to reject the order. I have no idea how to customise though but i create something and my client loved it.

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Ah, I was so shocked because this skill takes time to perfect.😂 It seems you used online videos too to assist you in learning better. Happy to hear you never stopped improving on your craft.

I loveeeee this hat and you did so well with the customization, for someone who wasn't taught.😍

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Well YouTube tutorials would have been helpful but I don't like them. I'm not saying it's bad to make use of YouTube tutorials but, I don't use tutorials to create my crafts and I will explain why.

YouTube tutorials have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are very simple. A YouTube tutorial makes things easy and less frightening for beginners who want to learn crochet.

But here are the disadvantages: When you depend on YouTube tutorials, I'm actually relating this to crochet and my experience when i tried using YouTube tutorials.

You haven't learned anything because you copied another person's process and here are two things

  1. You either get exactly what you wanted.
    Or
  2. You mess up your project.

WHY?

  1. The video you're playing or watching is a cut and join. I believe There are no perfectionist. In anything you do as a person, you tend to make mistakes.
    And those tutors online are not perfect they also make mistakes. 90% of the YouTube tutorials i have come across don't make mistakes they are too perfect. And a lot of people depend on them.
    Since it's a cut and join video, the mistakes are done behind the scenes.
    But as a beginner who has no idea, when i get to that part of my work i suddenly become confused and don't know what to do. And maybe at the end of the whole thing my craft is not looking as beautiful as the one on the video.

  2. The measurement: for instance i want to make a shirt. And the tutorial video I'm watching is for XXL size and I'm using an XL. But i was following the exact process and measurements in the video. And at the end my project becomes bigger than me.

  3. The stress: you will have to watch, pause the video, watch again and pause the video. It's time consuming. Crochet is a slow fashion so all this stress is also a waste of time.

Lastly You can never use a YouTube tutorial to crochet a full project and remember the entire process again.
I have experienced this and have seen a lot of crochet artist who depends on tutorials and when you ask then to recreate that same craft made by them, they will have to go back and watch that same tutorial again. @yechee @yechee

So tell me does that make me? A crochet artist or a copy cat?
It's a simple No. And that's not what i want.

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So after training for one month i bought a book. My crochet book. In fact I currently have 3 of them because every crochet piece i made i have a written tutorial on my crochet book. I jot every steps and process. In this post i state it somewhere that i join a few crochet communities and get to connect with a lot of people in my country and abroad.
And we are one big family we share crochet ideas and learn from each other.

From each community I learn different crochet patterns, Tapestry crochet, How to take measurements (I ran away from fashion design because of this but guess i couldn't run forever😂😂).
And so many things i have learnt from different crochet artists.

So this is how i have been building myself and I'm still exploring because, crochet is wide and Very broad.

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