Originally Posted by
Rose_P
It occurs to me to add that in recent decades there has been considerable research in the area of learning styles, and there's no need to shame people with words like "dumbing down" for responding better to visual instruction than to written or oral. Learning styles differ.
Exactly... If I had to depend on written quilt patterns, I wouldn't be making quilts. Trying to decipher what those written words mean sucks all of the pleasure from the process, and it takes me an unnecessarily-long time to make a quilt. My brain doesn't work that way, and I have difficulty understanding how others prefer it. I end up feeling stupid.
If I see a video on a technique, my creativity soars...