[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic canvas/cross stitch

[Susan Roe]

Hi Sydney,

What you might want to consider is latch hooking.  It is easy to find the 
larger blank graft style canvis.  Think of your icon picture over-laid with 
a graft grid.  It looks like pattern arranging for indian seed beads, in 
that each bead/square is a single color that combines with other colors to 
form a picture in complete color.  Also, a way to invision your icon is to 
think of it as a mosaic.

You could start out with a single mosaic icon, such as a specific style of 
cross, and with the help of a sighted person, lay out your lines of colors 
as though they filled a single line of graft squares.  Imagine your finger 
running acrosss a single row of squares and in each square is a braille 
letter representing a color.  If you used this as a guide, you would be able 
to show changes in color and shape following the pattern of your icon 
picture.

I think this is a little easier than the needle punch because the picture 
formation with needle punch follows colors in a certain pattern shape, when 
you finish that shape, you move to the next color instead of forming your 
picture from left to right, adding colors straight across, one at a time.

I hope I haven't turned you all around with this.  If you want more 
information, contact me at my e-mail address below.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sydney Walker Freedman" <freedmas at stolaf.edu>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:03 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic canvas/cross stitch


> Greetings, everyone!
>
> Sorry about disappearing for awhile there.  The last semester of
> undergrad has been busy but is finally calming down a little.  Anyway,
> I'm wondering if there will be a class on plastic canvas soon?  Also,
> is it at all similar to cross stitch or embroidery.  Someone suggested
> to me that I could learn to cross stitch usin waste canvas over cloth,
> but wouldn't plastic canvas work as well?  I'm really interested in
> learning some sort of needlework or tapestry weaving in order to make
> Orthodox icons.  I've found very little info on icon tapestries, just
> a few sites with photos etc., but I've found some cross stitch
> patterns plus lots on embroidery and punch needle stuff.  I know how
> to weave in general (never done tapestry, though), and it seems that
> cross stitch on plastic or waste canvas might be doable for a blind
> person.  Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas?  Thanks!
>
> Xristos anesti!
>
> Sydney
>
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