Each year, I film upwards of 250 tutorials, that's not including the left-handed versions. Sometimes it's an educated guess of what I think the crocheters will love and other times, it's taking a chance.
With filming so many free tutorials, not everything flies out of the gate and tanks immediately. I can tell within 2 hours of a video launching if I have made a sound decision or a mistake. If it's a mistake, I don't linger long and look for another project to film.
The influence of videos happens based on The Crochet Crowd Stitch Social, video tutorial requests we get through this website and just watching trends. It's rare for Yarnspirations to request a tutorial, with exception to the Stitch Alongs.
Here is my List in Picture Format
If it compels you to know more, you can click the picture and you will get the pattern and tutorial that matches it! You can give it lemons! 🙂
I'll tell you what compelled me for each. Just for kicks! Fetch is never going to happen! 🙂 You can leave me a comment at the bottom of the blog if you feel you want to add why a tutorial tanked or it lacked your interest.
Lori says
It’s fun to see which videos tanked and it seems your reasoning on each was spot on. The only thing I can add is the yarn for the Misty Vine Cable baby blanket. I won’t work with velvet because of worming and especially for a baby blanket that will need frequent washing. I love your style Mikey! As always, thank you!
Denise Hardin says
I think a lot of these was due to the timing. School (even college) was cancelled and not sure of a start date in the fall of this year. The lovely gray cable blanket could have been because it was listed as baby blanket but in grey. Also I noticed some of the patterns for winter wear came out in April and May. We in the United States are well out of cold weather by then.
Leslie Bird says
We attended the yarn reveal in Columbus and the first thing I said to my mom was I'm making the football blanket for dad. Maybe it will pick up steam now that we're back to playing sports. I thought it was an excellent idea as a gift for men. I am going to try the ridge textured hat and cowl for myself. I have some "pretty" yarn (pretty and pretty expensive) that I've been waiting for a pattern to speak to me. I think this is it. Thanks again Mikey for all you and your team do.