Well, that isn't entirely true, but it's close. I had learned the basics of knitting from fellow knitters, but I wanted to try my hand at a pattern after creating about a thousand simple baby hats knit in the round on circular needles. The pattern I chose kept telling me to sl1k1psso, and I kept telling the pattern to freaking speak English already. Being a library type, I tried consulting a BOOK with diagrams. The diagrams looked like piles of spaghetti with knitting needles in the middle, and let's face it, trying to describe knitting techniques in words is nearly impossible. Here is where YouTube comes to the rescue.
Very kind, patient knitters out there in cyberspace have taken the time to create videos of techniques (like the aforementioned slip 1 knit 1 pass slip stitch over) so that visual learners like me don't set their yarn on fire or flush it down the toilet out of frustration. And they film these from the viewer's point-of-view, so it's like you are looking at your own hands knitting, which you will be once you've taken a gander at something like this:
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