TJ Barczak

Below is a 15-minute YouTube video that I created and edited to show my progress! Have fun with it, it’s a trip.

Written Transcript of Important Parts:

TJ: So yeah, up, in, up, in, no big deal anywhere. All pretty simple. And then, once you get to like a point where you want to change colors which is in about two more stitches for me, I know I have been working on this color for about a minute, but I was doing so much work at school that I just had a little bit more to do. What’s gonna happen is you’re gonna knot it off. And, the way you do that is, if we are gonna look at the back, you see how there’s, welp you can’t really see, you see how the tail is right here, you’re gonna loop it through the knots you already made. So that, everything stays in place. So you’re just gonna take it, loop, probably do it twice to make the world happy, because we love making the world happy. You know, world peace, world peace, world peace, Miss Universe, what do they want, world peace. So, you just do that twice, and you cut a little bit of the tail but you also want to cut your original tail down because those things are normally way too long. So, you just cut them all down. You get, a lot of extra, like for some reason I just have a lot, so we are just going to keep that extra actually. And we are going to use it again once I have to.

TJ: Okay, this is a learning experience. Twice a time, my work has popped out of its hoop. Well, I would just like to tell you, folks, it’s not fun. But, putting it back together is really simple.

TJ: Another thing that can happen is that when you’re putting your hoop back together, your string that you’re actually using gets stuck in between the hoops, so you lose about all of it. So, you have to redo it to make sure that it’s all intact. How lovely!

TJ: Finally! That, yea we can go back to work, and another like way you can differentiate, say that you’re using the same color for a very long time, what you can do is actually just change the direction of your stitch to give it like, I guess dimension or like variety. So, you’re not just looking at a solid block of color, you’re looking at a solid block of color but there is like different edges and borders, so when you look at it, you just kinda move a little bit instead of going: “Oh look, color.” No, oh look color, but there’s a little midsection here, or a bisection here so that you could be like, oh a little focal point. But, I don’t know if it’s just for the audience, it might just get them to look at it for another couple of seconds for them to be like: “Well why did he do this?” And a couple of seconds means more praise, hopefully.