Originally Posted by
Peckish
Another pet peeve is excess verbosity, especially in quilt videos demonstrating a technique. Just say what you need to say, I don't need or want to hear about what happened to your scissors last week, or about some silly thing your dog did, or that you're taking your car through the car wash, etc. Same goes for any recipe you find on the internet. Why do they have to post their life story, with the recipe (finally!) at the end of it??
I agree. I recently watched (actually fast forwarded thru) a 35 minute quilt tutorial from a major retailer that could have been reduced to less than 15 without all the useless chatter and unnecessary details like chain stitching, pressing and trimming 36 HST in real time!