My name is Jasmin, I’m a Yahoo and when I was six-years-old, I singlehandedly gave the chickenpox to the entire second grade. While I count that as one of my proudest accomplishments, it also resulted in life-changing learning. When she wasn’t dotting the spots with calamine lotion or drawing oatmeal baths, Mom decided that it was time I learned to knit. Mom was raised in Germany, so it didn’t come from out of the blue; my mother never sat with idle hands. I was a fairly agreeable child, and so, I knit. While my first knitting is orange and full of unintentional holes, my subsequent knitting improved over time. All thanks to my mother. I knit through high school and college, and somewhere in between, started a knitting blog. Two years ago, I called my mother with a harebrained idea.
“We should do a knitting podcast!” I said. “And we should call it ‘The Knitmore Girls.’ Because it’s the two of us, like the Gilmore Girls!”
Mom agreed, and a few months later, we launched our first episode. Since then, we have had loads of fun and encountered quite a few mother-daughter teams. I suspect that most of them happened the way most family businesses do (kids working for their parents’ businesses). Some of these companies include Handmaiden/Fleece Artist, Southwest Trading Company, Tess Yarns, and most notably, Schoolhouse Press. (Schoolhouse Press was founded by Elizabeth Zimmermann and she was joined by her daughter, Meg Swansen, a few years later). Loads of people learn to knit from a family member, but if you’re not confident about teaching your kiddo to knit – or you would like to learn, too! – many local yarn stores offer classes, and Mom ‘n’ Me knitting classes are often offered in the summertime or over winter break. I happen to be a big fan of tandem learning – I learned to spin (on a spinning wheel) alongside my mom when I was in sixth grade, and I think it made me more open to learning as an adult.
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