Learning to knit as a child

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So, I discovered knitting as a

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child around the age of 7 or 8. My

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grandmother taught me the basics.

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All my life I've knitted, but I've

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knitted in a classic way, unraveling

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shawls, sweaters, things

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like that, until 2011 when I suddenly

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decided to make

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things in three dimensions. The first

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thing I knitted was a

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fish.

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I showed it to her. "My fish!" she

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said. "But now you see, you can

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make a chicken." So I had to, well,

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I'm going to make a chicken and I continued

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I've been practicing psychiatry since 2001.

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Before that, I was a general practitioner and I

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specialized in traumatology. That's where

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I realized that

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knitting