[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Knit throw

[carcione at access.net]

Hi Cindy.

Are you thinking blocks sewn together, or just declaring each block will be X by Y and knitting the whole thing without sewing?

I have made a couple throws of picture blocks, using dishcloth patterns that fit a theme.  I like them a lot, and they were fun to make, but there are definite seams where I sewed them together.  Not a bad thing, but a design element.  

 

I was thinking more along the lines of wide stripes of different patterns, but I’m open to blocks instead.  How are you imagining it?

Tracy

 

 

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Depending on the size of the letters (guage), you could do them in a quilt block pattern and then use other patterns or a single pattern for the remaining blocks. Cables, basket weave, seed stitch, a dish cloth pattern, etc.

Cindy

On 6/14/2025 2:42 PM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:

A friend asked me for a knit throw to show off what blind people can do to an organization she works for part-time, the Paper Mill Playhouse (a theater that has some described performances).  She’d like it to have their initials, PMP, and whatever other pattern I fancy.

I found patterns for letters on good old Daisy and Storm, daisyandstorm.com, and the letters are 17 rows high.  I could put them in a couple times, and maybe figure out how to put braille letters with them.  I could put stripes or something else between the rows with the letters. 

 

I’m thinking what those stripes should be.  Does anyone have a throw pattern they like I could adapt?  Or have ideas?  Or even feel like this is a project they would really love to undertake?

Tracy

 

Tracy

 

 





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