[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Needle feltingRe: crochet and Stream 3?

Tue Jun 9 21:17:33 UTC 2026

I am so delighted to find a person interested. There are several books 
on Bookshare. Some are good. Some not so much. Same goes for the 
tutorials, but here are a few:

Sarafina Fiber Art Has some with incredible details. She gets a little 
advanced and loses me from time to time, but she is a good place to 
start. Also has plenty of supplies to order.

Living Felt  Also has some good ones, although she spends more time on 
wet felting, which I have never gotten into.

For more simple ornament-type animals, search Youtube for the title 
Needle Felted Woodland Animals.

Also try The Felt Hob It has a wonderful Welsh Corgi as well as good 
instructions for body parts.

Pam Duffy, when she isn't talking about her Etsy business has some good 
tutorials, especially on sheep and Highland Cattle. Judy zeke has some 
simple ornaments. Some of these animals are barely indistinguishable 
from each other except in color, tail shapes and ears.  .

I have had to learn that cute wins over accuracy. For a person who has 
spent her life learning about different dog breeds and how to tell them 
apart, this has been a challenge.

Sites like Bink Bonk are just music, not helpful at all.

I would suggest you do a search on You Tube for needle felting. All 
kinds of sites will show up.

   ; 6/9/2026 9:47 AM, Sarah via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:

> I hope you don't mind me turning this thread in a different direction, but where do you get your tutorials for needle felting? I may want to give that a try sometime!
>
> Happy crafting,
> Sarah
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> From: NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Lana Van Horn via NFB-Blind-Crafters
> Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2026 6:54 PM
> To: Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Lana Van Horn <lana5 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] crochet and Stream 3?
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> Thaat would be a hastle. Each new line would be a new recording?
>
> Thing is, I assumed everyone else was using the Stream 3, and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working for me Now, I realize the problem wasn't with me or my Stream. It just doesn't work doing it that way.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
>
> Maybe I should stick with needle felting. Many of the  tutorials are fairly well described. :36 PM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:
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>> I realize it would be a lot of notes, but could you make a note of each line?  Not ideal, I know, but it might work.
>> Maybe other people who use audio more than I do will have ideas.
>> I can ask my friend who's a Stream afficianado.
>> Tracy
>>
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>> I can begin making it read line by line or sentence by sentence or even word, but when I keep going back, because who can remember all that, the Stream clams up. Haven' tried with my Stream2. It is a lot less touchy than the 3.
>>
>> On 6/6/2026 1:27 PM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Blind-Crafters wrote:
>>> Sorry, I meant to address Lana.
>>> Tracy
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>>> Hi Mesha.
>>> That's an interesting question.  I get Bookshare craft books in braille and read them on my NLS braille eReader.  I've never tried following directions in an audio book, because I think it would be hard to do for the reasons you give.
>>> Could you make the Stream read line by line, or even word by word?  I know word by word is an option on the Stream.
>>> I know there are people who use audio for crafting.  What do you folks do?
>>> Tracy
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>>> Subject: Re: [NFB-Blind-Crafters] crochet and Stream 3?
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>>> Hi everyone, this is MESHA for my crochet patterns. I like to use YouTube because a lot of of the people who do the crochet patterns. Explain what they’re doing as they’re doing it. I have thermoform paper so if I’d like a pattern, I’ll write it down myself and read it that way. I just got book chair so I’m excited to see different crochet patterns there as well.
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>>>> On Jun 5, 2026, at 6:49 PM, Lana Van Horn via NFB-Blind-Crafters <nfb-blind-crafters at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it just my Stream? Or is it almost impossible to follow a crochet pattern on the Stream 3? I have to go back and forth, reading and rereading the instructions for particular lines and rounds. My Stream locks up and eventually has to restart. There are lots of good crochet books available from Bookshare. How do the rest of you work the patterns?
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