Things Need to Change, So I Started a Second YouTube Channel

Let’s just say, I am okay with change. I am okay with taking risks. And I am okay with starting over. I have been wrestling with something for the past several years and I think it’s finally time to make a change. As we get closer to the end of this year, I’ve decided that I don’t want to go into the new year doing the same thing I’ve always done.

I have been making content about the fibre arts for the internet in some way, shape, or form since 2004. I started writing about knitting, spinning, dyeing, and later weaving, on a blog called SweetGeorgia. It led me to start the SweetGeorgia Yarns company plus an online fibre arts school, the School of SweetGeorgia. Now, in order to learn about how to make videos for the School, I started making YouTube videos in 2017. This was all meant to be practice, but it has really become one of my favourite ways of making content. I can show you up close about how things work, or what I’m most excited about. I love making videos about what I’m making.

But now here is the problem. For the past several years, I have been feeling split apart. I’ve talked about this in previous videos… I know in myself that I’m a multicraftual maker that loves it all. And I want to talk about it all. And I want you to also learn and do it all, because it’s fun! But at the end of the day, this is not how content distribution works. I’m trying to think if there are better ways to meet people in this new media landscape… even if we have to start from zero.

Warping a rigid heddle loom - SweetGeorgiaWeaving on YouTube
Warping board ready to dress on the loom for the Winterful Weave-Along 2024
Weaving the Kaleidoscope Scarf on a 4-Shaft Loom - SweetGeorgiaWeaving on YouTube

Thank you so much for being here with me on this journey, and I hope that I will see you inside our big, happy SweetGeorgia community.

Notes from this Episode

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