10th
Hello craft my name is…
I found out about a new podcast that Etsy started up last week called Hello Craft. Every week someone calls up and starts out with them saying ‘Hello craft, my name is ________”
So anyways, I listened to their first podcast a few days ago and this girl was talking about how she had learned to knit from her mom and grandma. She talked about how her grandmother eventually had to stop knitting because she started going blind from macular degeneration and it reminded me of my great grandma, who also had to stop knitting because she was going blind due to diabetes.
I was about six when she passed away so I don’t have any memories of her sewing or knitting things but I always knew that she would make things because I can remember having blankets that she made for me when I was a baby. It was years later that I realized crafting was her LIFE. She loved making things for people and almost everything that she gave as gifts was personally made by her. As I started getting into crafting about seven years ago, I would take out all of the things that she would make and I would try and figure out how she constructed things. I would look at her projects as reference because no one else in my family (not my mom, grandma, or aunts) sew or crochet. So in a way, I’ve learned a lot of what I know from the projects that she has left behind.
This podcast also made me think about how talented she was and how there were absolutely no opportunities for her to build a business out of her skills the way that there is now.
It’s kinda overwhelming how a simple 5 minute podcast could bring all of that up.
