[NFB-Blind-Crafters] What are you working on next week?

[carcione at access.net]

Hi Sarah.

I knit braille letters by making a purl when I was on a knit row, the same as I was making the print letters.  I checked carefully that my braille letter was oriented the same as the print letter, not coming out backwards.   They came out well.  The “dot” is really a small diagonal, but it’s still recognizable. 

Each braille cell has 3 horizontal spots and 5 vertical spots.  I had to skip a stitch between each horizontal dot, and a row between each vertical dot, with the skipped row being purl, same as for the print letters.

Tracy

 

 

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Hi Tracy,

 

Congratulations on finishing the throw! Is this the one with letters on it? If so, how did you end up doing the letters? I know folks were throwing out various suggestions on this list a few months ago, but I can’t remember which method you decided to go with. 

 

Henry, I will try to remember to answer your question sometimes, but I likely won’t answer it every week or even every-other week, because I am such a slow knitter, my answer would be the same for several weeks in a row!

 

Happy crafting,

Sarah

 

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Henry, that’s a good idea.  Can you take charge of remembering to ask the question Sundays?

 

I like the idea of your memorial area with a nice runner.

 

I’ve finished the throw.  I showed a picture to the person I made it for, and she really likes it.  So now I’m going back to the sweater I’ve been knitting. I have to calculate the button spacing and make the buttonholes, so I’ve been putting it off, but it’s time has come back around. 

And Annie sent the macrame group a pattern for a Christmas tree wall-hanging, so I’m getting the materials together to start that.  I think I’ll hang it on my front door until I get a wreath.

Tracy

 

 

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Hi Ericka and Everyone on what I shall call “So, What Are You Working On Next Week?”

Tracy, what do you think of the idea of maybe making this a weekly Sunday column? I think that anyone can contribute to it meaning that there would be no need for an Editor.

I am and will continue to be working on two Loom Knitted Scarves. One is in the official colors of the United States Army of Black and Gold and the other is a coffee brown scarf that is like one that my Maternal Grandfather used to wear.

I am also designing a Table Runner of White and Gold to put under my Memorial area for my dogs and cats Urns and other memorials to them.

 

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I have a blanket of many colors shall we say nearly finished. I started ok but I’ve learned that you have to count the Rose because if you don’t things, don’t turn out right. Hopefully by the middle of next week, I will have this finished. At least I have straight lines on three sides of the blanket now. :-) It doesn’t learning blanket that’s for sure. Some squares are sewn together. Some squares are crocheted together and some corners in quotation marks are just that triangles to make a bad shape a square. I don’t know whether I will give it away to a relative who isn’t so picky or see to it that the Homeless get it.

 

Have a good week all!

 

I wanted to get this thing out of the way before I started on that baby blanket. I talked about before.

 

Ericka Nelson

K E9DYN

Proud general class him license owner

 

On Nov 15, 2025, at 12:55 PM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org> > wrote:



It’s Successful Saturday!  Have you started or finished a project or achieved a goal?  Share it with us and we’ll celebrate with you.

 

I’m pretty sure I’ll finish the throw I’ve been knitting sometime this weekend.  I only have 5 rows to go before binding off and weaving in ends.  Yay!

It’s purple at the top and bottom, with  light blue and medium blue sections in the middle.  It seems nice, and I hope my friend likes it.

Tracy

 

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