Hace muucho, pero mucho que no escribía por aquí y no es porque no me guste, si no porque se me han ido acumulando las excusas, el caso es que hace unos días me dijo mi esposito, que, porque no volvía a escribir, en fin que me animo a volverlo a hacer, que no prometo mucha frecuencia, pero sí que lo haré.
Y que mejor manera de empezar nuevamente a escribir, que contarles mi redescubierta pasión: el tejido. Aprendí a tejer cuando tenía 14 o 15 años, pero nunca me había atrevido a tejer nada muy complicado, lo más grande, difícil, 0 complejo mejor dicho, que he hecho fue un jersey para mi recién nacido bebé, hace como 8 años, no quedó muy bonito ni como debía quedar. El caso es que el año pasado con el tema pandemia, en el aislamiento que tuvimos que estar, pues empecé a interesarme otra vez por el tejido e hice varios chales, sin seguir patrones, por libre, según me iban saliendo, y con 100grs de hilo me salía un chal bufanda bastante agraciado, hice más de uno. Luego hice un gorro para mi marido, pero seguí un patrón, con video explicativo de Aurora Sisneros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmGGQY43Io).
El gorro le quedó bien a mi marido, así que me quedó gustando,
entonces empecé a buscar más cosas para hacer y por casualidad llegué a una
diseñadora que vive en Irlanda que se llama Albiona Mclochaliann, que además solicitaba
probadoras de tejido; en mi vida había oído hablar de eso, el caso es que me
encantó, porque fué la manera de obligarme a probar e investigar sobre técnicas
de tejido. Y ya llevo tejido una boina, 1 jersey con una técnica que nunca
había hecho, 1 blusa, que en realidad era jersey pero por mi inexperiencia
quedó en blusa y estoy empezando mi primer jersey para mi hijo.
It has been a long, long time since I have written anything here, but it
isn't because I don't want to, but because the excuses have been accumulating.
The case is that some days ago my husband asked me why I hadn't written anything
lately, so anyway he encouraged me to do so again. I don't promise to do it
frequently, but I will do it.
And what better way to start again to write than to tell you about my
rediscovered passion; knitting. I learned when I was 14 or 15 years old, but I
have never tried anything very complicated, or better said , the biggest, most difficult
or complex was a little jumper for my new born baby, 8 years ago. It wasn’t
very nice and it wasn’t the way it should have been done. The case is that last
year with the pandemic situation, and the lock down that we had to undergo,
well, I started to get interested in knitting again. I made some shawls without
following a pattern, on my own, so with a 100-gram ball I made a nice scarf
shawl, then I made more than one. Then I made a hat for my husband following a
pattern with a video tutorial from Aurora Sisneros (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmGGQY43Io ). This hat fitted on my
husband very well, I liked it, so I started to look for more things to do and
by chance I found a designer who lives in Ireland, whose name is Albiona Mclohlainn, and
she was calling for knitting testers. I had never heard about this in my life, and
the fact is that I loved it because it was the way to make myself test and
investigate new techniques I have never done. I have already knitted a beret, a
sweater with a technique that I have never done before, a blouse that actually
was a jumper, but due to my inexperience it remained a blouse and I started my first
jumper for my son.
Many designers ask for knitting testers, so before they sell the
patterns, the people who knit their patterns help them to correct mistakes,
modify sizes etc. and for those of us who are not expert knitters, we can learn
a lot.
As I only have been knitting
tester for Albiona, (https://www.ravelry.com/designers/ailbiona-mclochlainn)
I can only say that her patterns are really easy to follow, even for non-expert knitters, they are very well explained, with step-by-step instructions. Anyway I recommend her patterns, and she has them on Ravelry (this is a web page where you can find designers, patterns, forums, and everything related to the world of knitting and crocheting). Thanks Albiona for having given me the chance to be one of your knitting testers, and everybody on the web to share their knowledge, without them, I couldn´t follow any pattern. In this particular case, a special thanks to
Belen from “tejer en inglés” https://www.tejereningles.es/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxAHX7wKPdpPWYtjc6KYSzw
She has a lot
of very well explain video tutorials on youtube, as her name in Spanish says
knitting in English, to follow patterns writing in English, so I highly
recommended her to learn new techniques and if you want to try to follow any
English pattern. She also is a knitter designer and she is too on ravelry, so I
hope I could try one of her patterns one day.
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| mis chales, cada uno hecho con 1 bola de 100grs my chawls, each one made with a 100grs ball |
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| Lake reed hat |
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| tonnta pullover- jadwidga pullover-gillochet beret |
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