YouTube is what I’m talking about. Those of us who grew up before the internet existed, do marvel at the miracle of this technology. The first personal computers came around while I was in junior high but the world wide web as we know it didn’t exist in any useable fashion until I was out of college. I wrote my masters thesis using sticky notes and index cards though I used a computer for word processing.

Shortly thereafter, the world changed. And now we can teach ourselves how to fix a leaky toilet by watching YouTube videos. I love this aspect of the internet, though a plumber might prefer I couldn’t replace my toilet innards myself.*

Those of you who have been following me on Change the Shed on YouTube since March have seen first hand how I make decisions as I’m weaving. For me, many of my tapestry design decisions are made before I start the weaving. But often color choices aren’t really clear until the tapestry is underway. In a small piece I am unlikely to weave a sample, so I am experimenting while working on the actual tapestry.

In the December 9th episode of Change the Shed I was struggling with a value choice that I didn’t trial before I turned the camera on that morning. After briefly considering (silently) how embarrassed I was going to be when I made live “errors” to a fairly wide audience, I decided that letting it play out on camera was just fine with me.