The mainstream media is filled with stories about the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. But there is another war, ongoing, here on the home front that is much more insidious, and its consequences far more terrible for whom the victims are…
…I’m talking about Sock Wars, people, and it’s about to get ugly! Thankfully, there is the brave husband and wife reporting team of CAT and Eric Susch, who are putting their very lives on the line to cover this uncovered war. For full details, surf on over to www.LetsKnit2gether.com and see what you’re missing. Really?…
…No, not really. But SockWars III is one of the many creative ways CAT and Eric have made the once-dying, manual arts of needlework fun and popular again. Stream any or all of the 33+ video podcasts this yarn-spinning duo have produced in their two years online, and you just might find yourself hooked–all puns intended.
I’m being obvious when I write that LetsKnit2gether.com is not for everyone. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t urge everyone of my DotcomDish! fans to surf the site at least once. The thing about particular content being streamed on this website is not how narrow the subject matter is, but how steadfastly Letsknit2gether’s content creators continue to develop it.
And that’s a good thing. We live in an age when a person can build their new car online and then have it delivered to their local dealership before ever test driving it. Why wouldn’t we want the same highly personalized content in our online entertainment? LetsKnit2gether delivers high-quality, exceedingly specific infotainment to individual needlework aficionados around the globe, and then weaves their common viewing experience into a globally local community. That action defines one half of the double entendre found in the website’s name (the other half originating in the name of a stitch).
For casual site surfers like you and me, the clearest example of what I mean can be found in webisode #19. In it, CAT and Eric travel with a gaggle of knitters to a baseball game. Eric trolls the stands, videotaping solo knitters and knitters in groups. Now that our eyes have been trained, a panning wide shot reveal of the crowd shows us exactly what we have been missing—that inside “America’s Favorite Pastime” an entire subculture, enjoying a different pastime, peacefully coexists. Amazing.
If the Susches were able to reconfigure LetsKnit2gether.com to include the Web 2.0 advantage of social networking, I guarantee three benefits would ensue:
1. solidification of their fan base
2. expansion in awareness and in size of the online knitting community
3. successful completion of their goal to raise eight thousand dollars by September 30th in order to pay for a new editing system.
CAT is great at her job. Her clear instructions and folksy style make it easy to understand the finer points of needlework. And just like the better cooking or home repair online shows, LetsKnit2gether.com will quickly and easily teach you the difference between a crown and a gusset, faster than you can turn a heel.
Eric too, does an excellent production job. LetsKnit2gether.com is shot in HD. He also puts a lot of stock into the show’s lighting—the combination of the two, give each webisode a broadcast quality feel.
I give LetsKnit2gether a .comDish! “E” for everybody—accessible to all ages, even if needle and yarn is not your bag. A special thanks to KittyClapper for hipping me to LetsKnit2gether.com. If you have websites for us to review and share, please email me at ZanderKoll@dotcomdish.com, and show me what I’m missing!
