[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Knitting braille letters

[Courtney F. Smith]

If you want the braille larger, just make the bobble larger.

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Becky, I tried to make braille on only one side, using purl, but it doesn’t stand out well.  These tiny bobbles do.  If you have ideas for how it could be on one side, speak up.

Tracy





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Tracy, you probably do not want the Braille to show on both sides. Backwards Braille may be insulting. Trust me a lot of folks have no idea right side and wrong side. I have a guy who likes the wrong side of a knitted afghan I made him and his wife. She flips the afghan to the right side. Maybe he just likes advertising my business, grin.



I loomed the same guy an afghan. I didn’t ask about which side is up.



Braille on one side only, please.



Becky and Holden waving a paw



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Subject: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] Knitting braille letters



I figured out a good way to knit braille, using tiny bobbles.

In a stockinette piece, where you want a dot, knit 3 stitches into 1 stitch by doing knit, yarn over, knit, then slip those 3 stitches back to the left needle and knit them together through the back loop.  Gently pull the bobble tight.  It makes a nice little round dot on both sides of the fabric, but neater on the purl side.  Then purl the next row, as usual in stockinette.



I’m making a throw for a blind friend, and she wants the logo of the theater where she wants to use it on the throw.  I’ve got the print letters, and I thought it would be neat to put braille letters, too.  They came out nice, too.

Now I can put braille on anything I want.  I could even sign my work, or put my friend’s name on it.  Woo-hoo!

Tracy


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