Hola gente hermosa de la comunidad motherhood ♥ espero que se encuentren realmente bien. Cuando yo estaba chiquita veia a mi mamá tejer, ya sea dos agujas, crochet, macramé, costura o bordado. Tanto a ella como a mis tias les habia enseñado esas habilidades mi abuelita, por tal motivo cuando cumplí aproximadamente 8/9 años mi mamá me entregó un ovillo de lana, una aguja de crochet y pasamos largas horas enseñandome como utilizarla. A la edad de 10 años ya hacia bufandas y gorros! con el paso de los años dejé de tener tanta paciencia, comence a utilizar mi tiempo en otras actividades y dejé la agujas de lado. Mi mamá siguió tejiendo y aprendiendo actividades nuevas, y en la cuarentena estuvimos codo a codo tejiendo barbijos y tapabocas. Incluso en su momento publiqué aca en Hive algunos tutoriales! pero no suelo tejer tanto actualmente, como dije, no soy muy paciente y no me gusta estar invirtiendo tanto tiempo en la misma actividad.
Hello beautiful people of the motherhood community ♥ I hope you are really well. When I was little I used to see my mother knit, be it knitting, crochet, macramé, sewing or embroidery. Both her and my aunts had been taught those skills by my grandmother, for this reason when I was approximately 8/9 years old my mother gave me a ball of wool, a crochet needle and we spent long hours teaching me how to use it. At the age of 10 I was already making scarves and hats! Over the years I stopped having so much patience, I began to use my time in other activities and put the needles aside. My mom kept weaving and learning new activities, and in quarantine we were side by side weaving chinstraps and masks. Even at the time I published some tutorials here on Hive! but I don't usually knit that much these days, as I said, I'm not very patient and I don't like spending so much time on the same activity.
En la tarde de hoy yo estaba en la computadora trabajando perdida en mis asuntos, me levanté a servirme un vaso de agua y veó a mi sobrina Martina con cara de concentracion, aguja e hilo en mano, y a mi madre explicandole como dar su primera vareta. Me quedé mirando la escena unos segundos, y recordé nuestra primera vez tejiendo, la nostalgia se apoderó de mi y me acerqué a ellas. Mi mamá ya no es tan paciente como en mis recuerdos, asi que tomé su lugar y le expliqué a le nena las veces que fueron necesarias. Se fustraba muchisimo asi que me senté y le dije que va a llevar tiempo pero lo va a lograr.
Today afternoon I was at the computer working lost in my affairs, I got up to pour myself a glass of water and saw my niece Martina with a concentrated face, needle and thread in hand, and my mother explaining how to do her first double crochet . I stared at the scene for a few seconds, and I remembered our first time weaving, nostalgia took over me and I approached them. My mom is no longer as patient as in my memories, so I took her place and explained to her the times that were necessary. She was getting really frustrated so I sat down and told her it's going to take time but she's going to make it.
Entonces tomé una aguja, un ovillo, y a la par de ella comencé a tejer. La idea era simplemente explicarle como podria ser mas prolija y debia contar las varetas que hacia. Pero me entretuve tanto que cuando me quise dar cuenta estabamos ambas tejiendo concentradas. Me desconecté totalmente del mundo y mi tejido se llevó toda mi atencion. Charlamos de tecnicas, le conté sobre mis errores de tejido en el pasado, le conté anecdotas con mi madre y como fue que vendí mi primer bufanda gracias a mi abuela!
So I took a needle, a ball of yarn, and next to it I began to weave. The idea was simply to explain to her how she could be neater and she had to count the double crochet she did. But I had so much fun that before I knew it we were both concentrating on knitting. I totally disconnected from the world and my fabric took all my attention. We chatted about techniques, I told her about my knitting mistakes in the past, I told her anecdotes with my mother and how I sold my first scarf thanks to my grandmother!
Estuvimos toda la tarde tejiendo! mi mamá con su proyecto de chaleco a cuadros, Martina con unos "collares" y yo simplemente tejí sin un objetivo, solo contando y charlando. Avancé y lo desarmé algunas veces, porque no se me ocurria ningun trabajo que realizar. Martina mientras tejia me contaba que estaba haciendo collares para su abuela, para su madre, sus hermanos, e incluso hizo unos para mi madre y para mí. Si bien al principio estaba enojada porque no le salia bien la tecnica cuando terminó se la vió super orgullosa de su trabajo.
We were knitting all afternoon! my mom with her checkered vest project, Martina with some "necklaces" and I just knitted without a goal, just counting and chatting. I went ahead and took it apart a few times, because I couldn't think of any work to do. While she was weaving, Martina told me that she was making necklaces for her grandmother, her mother, her brothers, and she even made some for my mother and me. Although she was angry at first because she didn't get her technique right, when she finished she was super proud of her work.
Yo no puedo decir que estoy orgullosa de mi trabajo porque simplemente hice ésto jajaja
I can't say I'm proud of my work because I just did this lol
Me parece muy importante traspasar éstas habilidades de generacion en generacion, y que a su corta edad ella aprenda que en vez de estar perdiendo horas y horas de su tiempo viendo videos en youtube que de nada le sirven se puede aprovechar el tiempo en algo productivo, se sintió util y entendió que es muy buena en algo nuevo! y lo hermoso que es crear algo con tus propias manos ♥ yo soy una tia orgullosa y estoy usando el collar que me regaló mi sobrinita Martina en su primer encuentro con el arte del crochet ♥
I think it is very important to pass on these skills from generation to generation, and that at her young age she learns that instead of wasting hours and hours of her time watching videos on YouTube that are of no use to her, she can take advantage of the time in something productive, she felt useful and understood that she is very good at something new! and how beautiful it is to create something with your own hands ♥ I am a proud aunt and I am wearing the necklace that my little niece Martina gave me in her first encounter with the art of crochet ♥