You learned to knit when you were very young, I did it when I was around 10, but in my environment nobody knitted, a half-sister much older than me taught me the basic stitches who did not live here and only came to visit a couple of times a year, In my country, knitting on two needles is not so popular at any time, it is always hot here and only in few places can you wear a scarf without drowning in sweat, but my half-sister lived in the 80s in the capital when knitted wool maxi sweaters were in fashion and she learned to knit with magazines, already in the 2000s, more or less the year I learned to knit, only grandmothers did it and most of them only crocheted, but I didn't even have a grandmother, She died young, so in my family I am still the only one who knits, but now, after going through two universities and graduating from both, I feel that my life without wool and needles has no meaning. It was very emotional to read you, thank you for sharing your story 🥰
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Hello @irenenavarroart, thank you for your lovely comment and sharing your story, too 😍. The strange thing to me is that, among all the women knitters, it was my father who taught me (I am guessing that my mum was busy cooking or working elsewhere in the house, it wasn't that she didn't want to teach me). He also learned to knit when he was very young, maybe eight or nine, and knitted for himself and for others. I have been learning to knit a different way (I will write about it another time), and I was struggling until I realised I had to hold the yarn a different way to have the tactile experience.