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You're welcome. This is how I approach kitchener stitch every time I need it. Thread my needle. Sigh. Suck it up. Start playing the first video. Laugh. Go, "oh, right." Put the video on pause. Go find alcohol. Take a good swig of said alcohol. Continue playing the video. Try to get the weird way that people in the US pearl and knit into my head.* Once I've figured it out enough that I'll remember long enough to do my kitchener, do the first few stitches along with that video. Stop the video. Switch over to the second video. Click somewhere in the middle. Get the rhythm of it in my head. Stop that video. Chant to myself under my breath as I do it.

*I learned how to knit from my Mexican host mother when I was 17 and she taught me Eastern Style. It confuses the heck out of American knitters but I think it is way simpler except when I need to learn new skills. None of my books even acknowledge that there are other styles of knitting.