I love You Tube!

So I am trying to teach myself to knit. There is so much really lovely looking handspun, dyed and painted yarn on Etsy that I would love to have a use for it/reason to buy. So I got a book, a pair of needles and a couple skeins of nice but cheap cotton yarn. The book is useless. The tutorial I found online was good for the casting on stitch, but the pictures from that point on looked like they were taken from space. Then I remembered You Tube. Two minutes later I had watched a very concise and visually easy to follow tutorial on the knit stitch. I may actually be able to do this! I flunked out on teaching myself how to crochet. Then again, I didn't have You Tube and video tutorials, so maybe if knitting works out I'll try using my crochet hooks for more then clay.