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My paternal grandmother, she values a lot manual work because she has worked her whole life. She saw me under a different light when I showed her my so called progress with knitting. She usually says I study and stay at home too much, so, I guess this changes one thing. She learned how to knit because of her mother, it really helped her during the World War II to produce garments to keep warm. She still knits until now, however, she only knits scarfs because they are easier. She is done with sweaters, socks and blankets.

My material grandmother also used to knit but, she stopped about a decade ago. But, she still keeps her masterpieces in her apartment to remember what she did. For example, a blanket she knitted when I was born that I always use whenever I stay in Colombia. She also learned from her own mother. 

One craft, two grandmothers from two different nationalities: German and Colombian. It is clear, the craft is passed down from mother to daughter. In my case, there was a generational skip, because my maternal grandmother did not pass it down to my mother. 

As I stated before, knitting is a craft that is passed down women to women in the family. It would nice to break that chain with school programs. The industry is very much gendered based. Most of the tutorial videos on YouTube are by women. Also, the physical stores demostrate it.