Donna Wolfe opens Naztazia's mailbag for her 1,000th upload

Her son Shawn joins the first Off My Rocker podcast, covering hook ergonomics, teaching and the channel name's dial-up origins.

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Secrets of 20 Years on YouTube | Off My Rocker: Naztazia Podcast #1

Why Naztazia? Donna Wolfe's first podcast reaches back to an early-1990s dial-up internet service origin story, a fitting detour for an upload celebrating how far her teaching has traveled.

"Secrets of 20 Years on YouTube | Off My Rocker: Naztazia Podcast #1" brings her son Shawn aboard as tech consultant and mailbag companion. The subjects are wonderfully specific to this corner of the craft world: piano-inspired hook ergonomics, one-handed crochet with a Tunisian hook, the thinking behind her calm instructional voice, and why she says generative AI struggles with yarn physics. Even broken hooks get an afterlife as ornaments.

That debut was the newest of four uploads, but the week's largest audience belonged to "This satisfying woven texture only uses 1 basic stitch and 2 variations!" At roughly 228,000 views, the smock-stitch tutorial also carries the channel's strongest daily momentum. Its woven-looking fabric combines regular single crochet, elongated single crochet and single crochet two together in a repeating two-row sequence.

Viewers are already thinking beyond the sample: purses come up repeatedly, including one commenter's account of making a bag thick enough to skip a lining. Another imagines a blanket for a climate with a rather longer winter.

The other lessons turn chain loops into awareness ribbons and compare pre-threading beads onto yarn with adding them individually. The beading upload is gathering views faster than the scarf lesson, while an older technique for crocheting two rows in one pass remains busy.

Subscribers held steady, and daily viewing is below its usual pace, though the catalog added about 3.5 million views over seven days. For Donna, this was a week with both another useful stitch and a new place to explain the person teaching it.

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The videos drawing views on naztazia right now

This satisfying woven texture only uses 1 basic stitch and 2 variatio…227,885 views · 2026-10-14 This essential scarf technique creates lovely ribbon loops!75,252 views · 2026-10-12 This clever beaded crochet setup is an absolute game changer!54,775 views · 2026-10-16 This clever stitch option is an absolute game changer!742,568 views

The numbers

Here is how Naztazia's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Printsculptors

40,388,606

BRIKLE - Lego Instructions

5,143,049

Howard Lee

4,101,370

Pidgin Doll

3,992,429

naztazia

3,548,441

All New Bricks

2,188,345

coolirpa

169,238

Film Riot

139,420

Full Time Filmmaker

128,587

subscribers

2,340,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

673,072,517

views per day

464,356

typical day: 586,670

first-day views of each video posted this week

This satisfying woven texture only uses…

88,999

This essential scarf technique creates …

34,515

This clever beaded crochet setup is an …

43,516

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Howard Lee

2,450,000

coolirpa

2,390,000

naztazia

2,340,000

All New Bricks

2,340,000

Film Riot

2,260,000

BRIKLE - Lego Instructions

2,250,000

Full Time Filmmaker

2,180,000

Pidgin Doll

2,090,000

Printsculptors

2,060,000

As of October 18, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.