Why I’m Stepping Away from the Camera and Returning to My Blogging Roots
If you’ve been following my creative journey for a while, you know that I’ve poured a massive amount of heart, time, and energy into video content lately. Creating tutorials and sharing my work visually has been an incredible challenge, but if I’m being completely honest? YouTube has become incredibly frustrating.
There is a unique kind of exhaustion that comes with watching a platform chip away at your hard work.
When you see a finished video, it looks like a seamless 30 minutes to an hour of instruction. What you don’t see is the reality behind the scenes: spending hours upon hours setting up lighting, angles, and filming the actual process, followed by another one to two tedious hours editing. And the work doesn’t stop when the upload finishes. Then comes the mental gymnastics of trying to figure out how to promote it across other social media platforms just to get eyes on it.
To pour that much physical and mental labor into your craft, only to have that hard work essentially taken away in a single day, is incredibly disheartening.
Because of YouTube’s strict 365-day rolling window for public watch hours, metrics you fought hard for can vanish overnight simply because of the calendar flipping. It feels like the goalposts are constantly moving. You spend days creating, only to feel like you’re trapped on a hamster wheel, chasing numbers that the platform can just pivot away from at any moment.
It takes a toll on the creative spirit. And frankly, it’s made me realize where my time is truly valued.
Entering a Much-Needed Hiatus
That’s why I’m shifting gears. I am officially taking a long-awaited hiatus from creating regular videos, and I am putting absolutely no time limit on it.
I need to step back from the relentless demands of video production and return to my roots: right here on the blog.
Blogging is where everything started for me. It’s a space where I don’t have to put on a high-energy performance for a camera, worry about promotion fatigue, or wonder if a year-old piece of content is suddenly going to expire and hurt my standing. On this blog, the focus gets to be exactly what it should be: the craft, the nostalgia, and the community.
What This Means for Video Content Going Forward
To be clear, I’m not deleting my channel. Video still has its place, but its role is shifting entirely. While the camera is being put away for the foreseeable future, you might still see video pop up down the road in a much more intentional, supportive way:
- Blog & Shop Updates: I may still pop up on camera occasionally to give you a quick visual tour of new things happening in the shop or around the blog.
- Pattern Clarity: When I release certain free or paid patterns, I might create specific, focused video clips to go along with them to help clarify tricky steps or techniques.
But for now, video will only be there to serve the patterns and the blog when I feel inspired to use it—not the other way around.
Why This is Better for Everyone
By moving my primary focus back to written content, photography, and structured patterns, I can offer a few things the strict video grind never quite let me do:
- Clearer, Pace-Your-Own Details: No more pausing and rewinding a video twenty times. Written tutorials let you work at your own speed, with video clips there only when you actually need them.
- More Consistent Updates: Because I’m not spending days trapped in a filming and editing loop, I can share more projects, thoughts, and updates with you much more frequently.
- A Grounded Space: Just honest, cozy, creative sharing without the tech fatigue.
I want to spend my hours creating things that last, in a space that I can actually build upon without the foundation shifting beneath my feet. Thank you to everyone who supported the heavy video journey—but I am genuinely so excited to be back at the keyboard, focusing on the pure joy of making.
Grab a coffee, settle in, and let’s get back to basics.