Exclusive Interview With Claudia Quintanilla About Memory Lane | Fiberchats, Episode: 292
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My very first fiber arts memory is when I was probably three or four years old, sitting with my grandmother in her living room, hearing the click clack of the needles and watching the white beautiful garment grow in her lap. I would sit with her and be fascinated by her knitting. She taught me how to nap at seven and that was 43 years ago.
What a vivid memory!
When I was a child, my grandmother Odette taught me how to knit clothes for my dolls. Those moments were more than just learning a skill-they were filled with warmth, patience, and love. Sitting beside her, I would watch her hands move with such grace, guiding mine as I made tiny sweaters and dresses. The act of knitting became a bond between us, something that felt like it ran in our blood, a shared memory that would last a lifetime. Even now, whenever I knit, I feel connected to her, as if each stitch is a piece of our history woven into the fabric of time.
I learned knitting in my first school years.A scarf was one of the first projects
It was a first project for many of us
My first fiber arts memory is a child’s loom for making potholders. Those cotton or nylon loops wove in and out. It was a gift from my brother.
Now I’m 71 and knitting is my passion.
Oh, I remember those!
When we were younger we would travel a few hours to visit our grandma. We loved her cookies and stories. She was legally blind and still crocheted and knit.
We would always see humming birds at her house. When she passed away we would see many humming birds. My 3 sisters and I now collect humming bird items (for ourselves and each other) in her memory!
Such a sweet memory!
I learnt how to knit in school, it really ignited a creative streak in me :) I made a scarf!
That is awesome!
Hello from Swansea, Illinois. ❤❤❤❤❤! Another great interview!
Thanks for listening
This was such a beautiful interview with Claudia. It brought back so many memories and emotions of time with family, especially my mother and father. My sisters and I were taught to crochet, embroidery and cooking together. My mother continued to crochet until the end. I was so fortunate to have her live with me and we crocheted every night before bed. She made hats for everyone in our family and I made blankets for the babies. Thank you both for sharing this wonderful gift with us. If I don’t win a copy of her book I will purchase one myself.
Olivia 🦋
It’s a great book
My great aunt taught me to crochet a chain when I was a child. She was my hero at that time. She was so young on the inside, traveling to exotic (to me) locations in Africa, Europe, Asia & South America, & riding our bicycles together.
She sounds super cool
My memory of my English Nanna being so patient and encouraging with teaching me to knit. Me being left handed and she right handed . I would knit several
Rows - full of mistakes. She would graciously correct - and compliment me on how well
I was progressing. I have since learnt continental
Knitting from a Latven neighbour.
However as an adult who has faced being left handed in all facets of life. I now knit English style right handed . Understanding it all visually. What a messed up brain I have with my knitting .
But somehow it works and I love my time with my needles.🧚♀️
There are so many ways to achieve the same result
My first fiber memories were of my mother knitting baby sweaters and hats, later moving on to mittens. She made her own charts; one of the first was to recreate E Shepard's Pooh endpaper silhouettes. But fiber memories go all the way back to one great- grandmother's primitive-style hooked rugs, and another's crazy quilts using repurposed suit fabrics embellished with embroidery. Both my mom and her sister used motifs and patterns from Women's Day magazine to make items for us kids; later my mom went through an ecclesiastical embroidery phase and eventually settled on needlepoint...she somrtimes charted Kaffe Fassett patterns from the pictures!! My aunt settled on quilting. I'm so fortunate to still have their creations in my home. And it's continuing with the next generation! My daughter and niece both have art degeees. My daughter sews and recently began incorporating enbroidery with her watercolors. My niece also incorporates embroidery with drawings, and makes large crochet blankets. Now we're busy creating to welcome the next generation in November ❤❤❤
How wonderful! Embroidery on watercolor must be stunning!
I have memories of my grandmother knitting as I was a child. She did both, knitting and crochet. I mostly remember all the things that she crocheted and gave away as gifts to the family. To this day I have a red poncho that she made for me and I’m saving it to someday see my granddaughters wearing it. She made everything with so much love! I truly cherish those beautiful memories! ❤❤❤
A real heirloom
Childhood memory of grandma Natalie (“Nanny”) crocheting granny squares for blankets and trying to teach me - a very challenging task ❤ lovely interview with Claudia
I just learned how to crochet a simple granny square and you are right, it’s not that simple for a beginner
I was born into an international and an interfaith family. My late father was a Syrian Muslim and my mother is German, nominally a Christian. My parents met in a train to Paris and after my father completed his Phd in Europe they moved with me (born in Paris) and with my brother (born in Berlin) back to Damascus. Our Syrian family rejected us - a childhood memory that impacted all of us. Although my father owned a beautiful and spacious house in which all of us could have lived, he had to work two jobs as a teacher and instructor to buy a suite for his family.
It breaks my heart, we are all human beings and life shouldn’t be more complicated because of who we love
What a faaaabulous interview! Thank you, ladies! I need this book…that’s a for sure! My childhood memories are of my grandmother knitting slippers for everyone around her, plus she was always embroidering tea towels and also crocheting amazing doilies . Also, my mom was an amazing seamstress…not as a profession, but as a passion. This interview brought up many memories for me so thank you so much for this🤍
I’m so glad! I think that’s the brilliant thing about this book: as you read Claudia’s stories, your own memories are flooding back
My childhood memory is learning to knit at age 10 at our local playground. Our playground was like a club with an adult moderator. Miss Joyce decided to teach us knitting and little did I know it would be a lifetime of enjoyment.
Great story!
Beautiful conversation. Congratulations. I remembered my father, when he taught me to draw. It isn't exactly a knitting memory, but I have two skeins that I didn't know what to do with them. The way that Claudia express her memories throw the knitting, gave me one idea. I'm going to knitt a sweater to remember my father and my chilhood city.
What a wonderful influence your father had on you!
My first fiber arts memory is Nanny’s large basket of leftover wool yarns in different thicknesses and beautiful colors- some were even extra fuzzy mohair or alpaca blends and I could select any yarn to create with. Her older sister would fly across the country twice a year for visits and they’d share family stories while knitting, crocheting or tatting. When I was 4, they taught me how to make a disappearing slip knot and how to reach through the loop to pull new loop after loop making a foundational chain.
What a lovely memory
This was a phenomenal interview..in fact, I went back and listened to it again. When Claudia was talking, I thought about my grandmother who hooked some amazing rugs. She hooked a rug for my parents when they were married and I have that rug framed on my wall. Claudia is an amazing woman and those sweaters are just gorgeous!
Thank you Pat! I wish I had something from my grandma, but I do have a lot of memories
One of my favorite fiber memories is that of my Christmas stocking that my grandmother knit for me before my birth. Her eyesight and dexterity began to wane after I was born so mine was the last one in the family to have intarsia and angora used for Santa’s beard. I still have the stocking and I take it out from time to time and literally just brush my fingers over the beard because it’s still so incredibly soft and brings me such joy to know her hands created this precious keepsake. Wonderful interview Claudia and Irina. I am smitten with so many of those beautiful sweaters!
I’d love to see a picture of your stocking Holly. Thank you for watching!
My first fibre arts memory was when my mother first taught me how to knit. I was in my early thirties, just before I had my first child. I had always admired the beautiful sweaters that she made for me and because they were so unique I was the envy of all my friends. So, I thought why not give this knitting a try. I was hooked immediately! My passion for knitting has never diminished. With each passing year, I love it more and more. I often thank my Mom for introducing me to art of knitting. It is my salvation! 52:10
It really feels like salvation
My memory is of my mother she was not a knitter but she crocheted and her and i made her a yarn box from a quaker oats box with a hole cut in the top for the yarn to unfurl as she crocheted, I wrapped the box with rows of baby blue yarn glued down with elmers glue, later as a teen she taught me how to crochet but I did not realize my love for crochet and yarn until I was in my 40's and Mom was gone. She would be proud of me today!
I’m sure she would be very happy you’re continuing her legacy
What a beautiful podcast. It reminded me of my paternal grandmother teaching me to do cross stitch on a fabric where the design was printed. We were at the beach in the Outer Banks of NC and a hurricane was coming. So we spent a lot of wonderful time inside that vacation.
You probably forgot to worry about that hurricane with all the beautiful threads around. I remember those preprinted cross stitch fabrics
My first memory is watching my mum knit, and wanting to do that too. She eventually taught me, and I’ve knit for most of my life since.
We are so lucky to have those women in our lives
My first fiber memory is a pink mohair sweater my mother had knitted for me. The first time I had it on my father came home, picked me up and got mohair all over his wool uniform! I don’t think I wore it after that-and I loved it.
Mohair can shed so much
My mother taught me to knit at the age of 8 as she did all of my sisters. She was so patient with me. She gave me a large ball of green yarn to practice with however it turned out I was allergic to the wool dye. My eyes puffed up like huge eggs. There weren't many fibre choices in those days. She made me lovely angora hats and mittens.
Hopefully there are more dye and yarn choices now that don’t cause you allergic reaction
Lovely interview! I remember watching my father sew clothes for me and how magical it felt to dance around in something that came from his hands ❤
What a special father you have
My very first fiber arts memory was a pair of
white crochet ponchos make by my aunt for me and my sister ❤😊❤ (I have address on Canada)
Those gifts are the most memorable
When I was a child my mother used to sew clothes for me by hand. When I was about 5 years old she sewed me a doll, and made a matching outfit for both me and the doll!
I remember my mom sewing a doll outfit for me :)
Such a captivating and poignant, to me, interview.Thankyou Irina and Claudia for taking the time to share.I love when you said, Claudia "by making I become myself".I feel that too, now in my early 60's...and it reminds me of an interview from Jackie Rose and her Mum recently..her mother is finding she is being flooded with more vivid memories in her later years when creating., as do I ..especially of my maternal European grandmother who practically raised me and taught me so many crafts/skills. It is an honour and delight now to make mindfully, to take the time for gratitude and passing on .Go well in your days, Ladies.🙏🌏🐨❤xx
I just got to the end of the interview...now🤭..one vivid memory is my Oma taking me to a small country yarn shop miles from our town,,it was filled to the brim with walls of hanks, home spun and Lopi..I was always fascinated with the Lopi whilst she always came away with fingering weight yarn and crochet cottons...It was like an Alladins Cave run by a older family with a disabled daughter whol also took delight in making ,sharing and being hospitable to each customer as they came. I still havent knitted with Lopi but will❤xx
I can only imagine what a treat it was to browse that store as a kid!
Playing under the quilt frame when my Mom attended a quilting bee. My mom passed her love of fiber arts to us girls (I have two sisters) and we all have done crafts, sewing, quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidery and cross stitch.
I love that connection between generations
@@Fiberchats I love your podcast and think you do such a nice job with your interviews. You are warm and inviting. Claudia was a delight to get to know a bit
This was a very emotional interview. I am so moved by how Claudia infuses her designs with treasured memories of her family and it adds so much richness to her patterns. My mother and her sister, my aunt, taught me and my cousin to knit one day when we were 9. I remember that I chose a coral colored ball of yarn and I used red plastic straight needles. I don’t remember what I actually made, but I fell in love with knitting and it came naturally to me. The next summer when I was 10 my mom taught me to embroider. I’m forever grateful to her for teaching me when I was so young and the two of us enjoyed making things together until she passed away at the age of 91! A lifetime of joy and shared creativity. I will be attending Claudia’s Knitting Retreat (along with Fruity Knitting) in Costa Rica this February and will receive a book there, so please don’t enter me in the drawing. For her class, we will be making the Monarca sweater. Now that I understand the inspiration of the butterfly, I’m even more excited to make it. Thank you for this beautiful conversation with Claudia.
Thank you Esther. I bought a golden thread when I was in Toronto for those butterflies
@@Fiberchats If/When you get around to making them, please share. Those golden butterflies are so delicate. We’ll be learning to make them at her retreat.
As I grew up, I have very fond memories of my grandmother crocheting, her hands always moving, creating hats and scarves for loved ones . The highest compliment she paid to anyone she knew was the gift of a hat and scarf, to keep them warm during our nasty winters. Blankets were another favourite of hers to create, at lightening speed , flying off her hook. Slippers as well were always gifted. I cherish the last remaining blanket and slippers that grew in her hands . They are love.
Love in every stitch
Absolutely ❤
My memory brings me back to when I was probably 5 or 6 and we would visit my grandmother and she would sit and crochet roses for her afghans. She had given me one for a wedding gift as well, but when I was 20 I decided to take an adult education class in knitting and I never stopped since then which led me into many other fiber arts such as embroidery, cross-stitch, crochet, weaving, sewing and quilting. I owe my love of crafts to her and my mom who would craft with us as children. I have never used beads in my knitting and love the sweaters in this book and hope to give it a go soon, can't wait to see yours Irina!
Adding beads is simpler than it looks. You’ll get into the rhythm of it
@@Fiberchats what type of yarn is that pattern?
What a fun interview! I remember an amazing long skirt that my mom knitted for me. My other memory is crocheting a white collar for my school uniform. Every weekend I had to take it off, wash it and sew it back om.
Oh yes, those white collars
I went to check the patterns in Claudia's book and surprised to see a collar :)
I spent all my spare time with my grandmother.
Grandmas are the best!
Yes they are. I miss her dearly.@Fiberchats
What a lovely lady. Thank you. I come from a family of artists. Most of my other family members are painters and photographers. My mother was a sewer, but from the other side of my family. I'm the only knitter. I started learning embroidery at age 14 when I was stuck at home during an illness. I started learning to knit at age 26. At age 65 1/2, I'm still learning.
Isn’t it amazing that one can always learn more about knitting?!
@@Fiberchats Indeed it is.
Congratulations Liz, you won! Please email me your shipping address to fiberchats@gmail.com
@@Fiberchats Awesome! I will.
How touching is this interview, thanks to you both for offering so much of yourselves !!! 🙏 🥰 You reminded me of my grand-mother Antoinette who taught me to knit. I remeber my first scarf it started very narrow and ended quite wide ...
I think we all made one of those 😁
@@Fiberchats 😁
Congratulations Nicole, you won! Please email me your shipping address to fiberchats@gmail.com
@@Fiberchats Wow ! I am so happy, looking forward to knit a bit more for myself ...