Testing in the late night

Good day— er evening (??) Crafties!

I've been slacking hereon the blog this month and honestly the Channel Chats too 😅. I was up late last night, as I usually am, and was tinkering around with some of the new equipment I got last month for livestreaming. I ended up yapping in a way that I usually reserve for when I'm recording on the main camera and destine it for the cutting room floor.

The long and short of this prep is that I've been planning on doing lives on Rumble for over a month. What's stopped me? I could say scheduling and exhaustion but what I really think it is, is fear. You'll find that I'm really just a bundle of nerves 80% of the time and I've been letting that get in the way of advancement this year on several fronts. Whoops!

Really this video was meant as a video note for future me but ended up being a full blown conversation full of stories and happenings that I haven't posted anywhere else. Honestly felt kinda vulnerable but I felt good afterward so...

https://vimeo.com/1177991236

Join me for a psuedo Channel Chat, recorded 03/27/2026.

Excuse my sleep deprived indecision here, your girl was just riffing.

Livestreaming has been something that I've dabbled in here and there over the years but it never felt like anything my community valued as a whole. So for a time I just shut up and stuck to the tutorials. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Well I don't do those anymore and it feels like I'm courting a while new segment of people. While I don't know if I conveyed that in the video last night, I'm opting to see this as a new opportunity rather than mope about it.

I've been uploading to Rumble since 2020, back before it was a blip on the radar and the audience I built over there outpaced my YouTube one, yet it feels closer, quieter. And given the opportunities that are offered on the platform these days, I want to dip my toe into streaming there. Not only will it get me yapping/sharing more, but it'll also allow me to create a whole other type of content that I can use else where.

What might that be?

Well, dear reader, I've been a long time consumer of VoDs and tend to enjoy them interjected in my day. These are the 10-15 minute videos that some creators put out on a regular basis. As I said in last night's video, I can't be intentionally vapid. The thing is with Channel Chats is that I usually only make them when there's something important and plentiful to share. Otherwise, my video uploads go quiet and I stick to yapping over on Twitter. You'll notice that I've been padding those gaps with shorts/tiktoks but even that courts an entirely different audience that rarely ever watches the full videos. So with these streams, I can record them, chop them up later and plug them into my upload schedule in a way that will have me more present in people's feeds.

If I may be candid here, I hate the landscape of video content now. Everything looks the same as far as thumbnails and the general aesthetic of creators. Booktubers blend together, fiber art content all mimics each other and it feels like everyone is just saying the same thing with barely variable cadence. My brain feels like its melting out of my ears sometimes and when I consider that this is a formula to 'success' to some extent, I die a little on the inside.

That being said, I can avoid some of that by already having material to use. Not only will that give me more things to talk about but it'll also give me a little overlap as topics release. Back when I was creating tutorials, I posted on Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and then had Channel Chats in between. I don't know how I'll schedule these segments but I think having more volume will help me to reach more of my beloved community.

Which has been a struggle of mine. I don't really know what to do but it feels as though I have to beg and pull teeth to have engagement with people. Asking questions fall on deaf ears, and even engaging in [if you like this, I'll GIVE that] goes down the drains. Though this has been stuck in my craw for quite some time, this go-around I am determined to not let it get to me so much.

Every failed public thing will just lead to more exclusive content for my pattern club or something.

Really at the end of the day, I just want to reach people and the only way to do that is to keep persisting! I think what'll end up happening is that I'll end up finding a whole other segment of viewer and that's fine by me.😆

That's about it for this post.

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Thanks for reading & Happy Making! 💖