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My Top 10 Most Viewed Videos Last Week (12/16/19 – 12/22/19)

Posted by on December 25, 2019 at 8:37 pm
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Below is a list of my Top 10 most viewed videos for the week of 12/16/19 to 12/22/19.  If you have not seen them all, now is a great time to binge watch!

Narrow Fabric Scraps is still number one!  It was uploaded on Dec 10 and for last week’s Top 10 it had 57K views and it got me 520 new subscribers.  As of today, it has 120.5K views and it got me 1.6K new subscribers. Just that one video! Super cool!  I’ll be doing stats on this one down the road a bit.

Check out my New Youtube Stats Blog Series where I show you various stats on some of my videos including how much they earn!

My Top 10 Most Viewed Videos last week!

  1. How I Turn Narrow Fabric Scraps Into New Fabric
  2. Homespun Cotton and Muslin Rag Quilt Tutorial – Snip As You Go – Episode 1
  3. Homespun Cotton and Muslin Rag Quilt Tutorial – The Quilt is Done – Episode 2
  4. How to Quilt As You Go (QAYG) with Sashing and Self Binding – Sewing Tutorial
  5. Small Stuff Quilt Series Ep.8 – My Wonky Trees Block – Sampler Quilt Sunday
  6. Fabric Unboxing – 159 Yards – Mostly Batiks
  7. Small Stuff Quilt Series Ep.9 – My Final 3 Blocks – Sampler Quilt Sunday
  8. Easiest Ever Top Stitched Quilt Blocks Using Iron On Fusible
  9. Easy Crocheted Tote Bag – How to Crochet Tutorial for Beginners
  10. How to Quilt As You Go by Row (QAYG) – Rag Quilt with Lace Binding – Quilting Tutorial

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Christmas Lights Cookies – Easy Food Craft Recipe

Posted by on December 25, 2019 at 9:12 am
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Please remember that I don’t eat this stuff so I did not test this recipe. I’m just posting so you can try it!

INGREDIENTS:
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Store bought cookies (or bake your own)
1 tub white ready-to-spread frosting (or make your own)
Various colors of food coloring
Black cookie icing (see my tips below)
Gumdrops, cut into pieces (see my tips below)
Sugar sprinkles
(see my tips below)

DIRECTIONS:

1:  Tint small amounts of frosting different colors and spread on top of cookies.
2:  Top the cookies with sugar sprinkles.
3:  Pipe black icing to make light strands.
4:  Add pieces of gumdrops to make lights.

Darlene’s Tips: You can use any color frosting and pipe it on. No need to buy black food coloring.  Or use red or black shoestring candy.  You can use any kind of candy for the lights, m&m candies, round decors. You can also pipe on frosting for the lights.

Source and Images: General Mills (Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Tablespoon, Box Tops for Education, Que Rica Vida)

 

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I Turned My Selvage Block Into a Hot Pad – Using Backing as Binding

Posted by on December 24, 2019 at 8:47 pm
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I Turned My Selvage Block Into a Hot Pad
Using Backing as Binding

Hot Pad Penny Auction

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I have fabric Flash Sales almost every weekend and a big Fabric Frenzy every 4 to 6 weeks.  Patrons and Members get lower prices and first pick at all the awesome fabric!

Leftover items get moved to ebay after the sales, but you miss out on so many choices by waiting for ebay because more than half my stuff sells out during the sales.  If you love to buy fabric, you are going to save so much money by shopping my exclusive sales. 

Please consider joining all the others who love to shop and save!

And did I mention?  Shipping is FREE for all orders in the USA!

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Youtube Stats – Crumb Quilt Adventure Episode 1

Posted by on December 24, 2019 at 3:51 pm
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In this series, I will show you stats for some of my videos so you can see how youtube works for content creators.  Please remember, I am a very small youtuber compared to what is out there and my growth has been very slow.  But I don’t give up! I just keep going and make changes along the way.  Looking at my stats will be good for me. I need to see what is working and what is not working. Hopefully, it can help other content creators to know what they might be able to expect over the life of their channel.  I will be sharing videos that performed well and videos that fell flat. I hope you enjoy this series!

Video we are exploring:  Crumb Quilting Adventure – How to Start Piecing the Blocks | Ep. 1

Video was uploaded on: August 17, 2017

Date of this post: 12/24/19.

Video is over 2 years old at the time of this post.  All stats are up to the date of this post.

Views: 131,828

Watch time: 24.9K hours

Total earnings: $498.15

Earnings for the past 90 days: $56.27 (currently earning about 63¢ per day).

What does this mean?

Bottom line, the earnings absolutely stink.  I’ll be curious to see how the other videos in this series performed. Don’t get me wrong, almost $500 is nice, but I really expected it to be more especially since the video is over 2 years old and since it is the start of the series.  I’m thinking it was the most watched in the series?  Maybe not! We’ll know when I do the stats for the other episodes.

The most this video ever earned in one day was $11.61.  That was on day 4.  It earned $152.63 for the first 3 months then it pretty much flatlined to under $1 per day.  I see a teeny tiny spike over the past 3 months, but not much. No major spikes at all for this video. That means that youtube never put it out there as a suggested video.  When youtube promotes a video later, there is always a spike in earnings. I will show you examples of that on some of my other videos.

I’m very curious to see if any of the videos in the crumb quilt series did better than this!  I’m sure I was thrilled back then to earn a whole $11.61 in one day on just one video.  But I had 22.6K subbies at that time, so that’s still kind of pathetic. lol.  Just the same, seems like that video should have earned more in over 2 years. Much more!

Let’s compare to one of my recent videos.  How I Turn Narrow Fabric Scraps Into New Fabric was uploaded on Dec 10, 2019, just 2 weeks ago.  At the time of this post, it has 111,406 views and has already earned $553.92. Holy shit!  I’m positive no other video of mine has earned even close to that much in such a short amount of time. It’s breaking all kinds of records for me. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one and will do stats on it after it settles a bit.

I’ll be back with the stats on Episode 2 of the Crumb Quilt Adventure soon!

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Buy 4 Get 50% OFF Inside MagaMadeIt’s Etsy Shop!

Posted by on December 24, 2019 at 8:42 am
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Maga Made It has a sale going on in her etsy shop!  Buy 4 items and get 50% off!  This offer is good for her entire shop and ends on Jan 16. What a great time to stock up on some gifts for upcoming birthdays, showers and other occasions.

Etsy Shop

If you become one of my patrons or youtube members, I will be happy to promote your ebay or etsy items if I think are a good fit for my audience. Want to discuss first? Email me at advertising@darlenemichaud.com and send me your ebay and/or etsy links and I will get back to you after I check them out. Thanks!

 

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3-Ingredient Sweet and Sour Meatballs – Easy Last Minute Christmas Crockpot Recipe

Posted by on December 24, 2019 at 8:24 am
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Please remember that I don’t eat this stuff so I did not test this recipe. I’m just posting so you can try it!

INGREDIENTS:
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2 lb (32 oz) frozen meatballs (beef or turkey)
1 jar (12 oz) chili sauce
1 1/2 cups grape jelly (see tips below)
(see my tips below)

DIRECTIONS:

1: Place meatballs into a slow cooker.

2: Combine jelly and chili sauce in a small bowl and pour over meatballs.

3: Cook on low for 3-5 hours or until meatballs are heated through.

Darlene’s Tips: Switch things up by swapping the grape jelly for a different flavor, such as apricot jelly, peach preserves or pineapple preserves.  You can also add other ingredients like chopped onions and peppers. If you don’t have a slow cooker, simply heat this on your stove top in a sauce pan.

Source and Images: General Mills (Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Tablespoon, Box Tops for Education, Que Rica Vida)

 

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Easy Diagonal 4-Patch Selvage Block – Keep Those Selvages!

Posted by on December 23, 2019 at 9:30 pm
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Easy Diagonal 4-Patch Selvage Block
Keep Those Selvages!

Join Patreon or become a Youtube Member to get in on my weekly fabric sales! 

I have fabric Flash Sales almost every weekend and a big Fabric Frenzy every 4 to 6 weeks.  Patrons and Members get lower prices and first pick at all the awesome fabric!

Leftover items get moved to ebay after the sales, but you miss out on so many choices by waiting for ebay because more than half my stuff sells out during the sales.  If you love to buy fabric, you are going to save so much money by shopping my exclusive sales. 

Please consider joining all the others who love to shop and save!

And did I mention?  Shipping is FREE for all orders in the USA!

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I’m Making Selvage Scraps Fabric Blocks – It’s a New Addiction!!!

Posted by on December 23, 2019 at 2:36 pm
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I have officially fallen victim to another addiction.  Move over crumb quilting, I’ve got selvages calling out to me!

Before you even read this, run to your fabric trash and pull out all your selvages, even if they are only 2 inches long (that will cover a corner, baby!).  Then come back and finish reading this. And forgive yourself for ever tossing a selvage out. You won’t do it again.

I have known about sewing selvages together for quilts or other projects, but I just didn’t think I’d like the looks of that. I was completely wrong!  I frigging love selvage blocks!  I have been playing with ideas for a couple of weeks now and I want to show you everything. But I can’t.  At least not all in one video.

I’m going to start with some simple diagonal blocks and will share my tips on how to do them assmbly line style.  This is so quick and easy and fun! You are going to love it!

And the blocks are simply beautiful!

I just wanted to get you excited for a video tonight.  Not sure when it will be uploaded, but I really am aiming for tonight.  Be sure you subscribe to my channel and click that notification bell. Then I think there is a drop down or something so you can choose how you want to be notified.  I really don’t know, but other youtubers say that, so I’m saying it too. lol

Just subscribe to my channel already. And also join my Peanut Gallery group because I post all my videos in that group.  Be sure those notifications are on too.

“See” you tonight!  So excited!

Look at what happened today!  I hit 90K subscribers! For sure I will hit 100K in 2020! Thank you to all my subscribers!

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Join Patreon or become a Youtube Member to get in on my weekly fabric sales! 

I have fabric Flash Sales almost every weekend and a big Fabric Frenzy every 4 to 6 weeks.  Patrons and Members get lower prices and first pick at all the awesome fabric!

Leftover items get moved to ebay after the sales, but you miss out on so many choices by waiting for ebay because more than half my stuff sells out during the sales.  If you love to buy fabric, you are going to save so much money by shopping my exclusive sales. 

Please consider joining all the others who love to shop and save!

And did I mention?  Shipping is FREE for all orders in the USA!

Patreon at the $5/mo level

Youtube Membership at the $4.99/mo level

Exclusive sales inside patreon and youtube are for USA only. Outside of the USA must wait for items to appear on ebay and must also pay the shipping via ebay’s Global Shipping Program.

 

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Handbag Crossbody or Hip Bag by CeeBeeAccessories

Posted by on December 23, 2019 at 12:05 pm
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Please check out this awesome bag that CeeBee Accessories has in her etsy shop!  A versatile zip top bag that can be worn at least 4 ways, a crossbody bag, a shoulder bag, a fanny pack, 4) a hip bag! more details

Handbag Crossbody or Hip Bag

Etsy Shop

If you become one of my patrons or youtube members, I will be happy to promote your ebay or etsy items if I think are a good fit for my audience. Want to discuss first? Email me at advertising@darlenemichaud.com and send me your ebay and/or etsy links and I will get back to you after I check them out. Thanks!

 

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8 New Penny Auctions – Fabric Scrappies and Craft Rope – eBay

Posted by on December 23, 2019 at 11:55 am
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Check out my 8 New Penny Auctions with Free Shipping!*

Also check out my latest videos!

Small Stuff Quilt Series Ep.9 – My Final 3 Blocks
Sampler Quilt Sunday

Homespun Cotton and Muslin Rag Quilt Tutorial
Snip As You Go – Episode 1

Homespun Cotton and Muslin Rag Quilt Tutorial
Snip As You Go – Episode 2

*Free shipping for USA only. Other countries must be part of eBay’s Global Shipping Program. I still cover the shipping charges to get the package to ebay, but then you must pay eBay the remainder of the shipping charges.

 

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