[Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting machines are here!
Diane
dianefilipe at peoplepc.com
Wed Jan 7 15:19:49 UTC 2009
Wow!
good job Becky!
In having to deal with all of the junk you went through, my brother would
tell you "No is not the answer!!!"
Di
----- Original Message -----
From: "becky frankeberger" <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:01 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting machines are here!
> After nine months of writing and rewriting my business plan, then waiting
> for our State agency to figure out I can do this project, then the many
> thumbs stuck up their behinds not wanting to approve my plan, then finally
> they could not find reasons to disapprove the business, then them
> approving
> moneys to purchase equipment with an eye dropper, and trust me other
> things
> that nearly sent me screaming into the night, jerking my mentor and
> teacher
> around on various levels and so forth, the knitting equipment is safely in
> my studio in my home; it isn't paid for, growl, but it is here.
>
> Last night I knitted a very simple dish cloth. I have never knitted with
> this type of cotton yarn before, so had a few oopses, smile, but they were
> my oopses on my machines, well as soon as the person who extended his
> credit
> gets paid by the state, growl.
>
> Lessons are going very well with my mentor and teacher. I made a
> beautiful
> prayer shawl. It is blue edged in creamy white. The baby blanket was made
> from a very interesting yarn. The yarn is a pretty tan with threads every
> so often of other colors. In my case the one I made has reds, pinks, and
> blue. So it looks really interesting to the eye.
>
> A lot of what we are doing in class is learning gages, various stitches on
> the machine. Ever yarn is handled differently by the machine, like the
> dish
> cloth and my oopses. I had large yarn on a large chunky machine, but the
> gage was wrong and the machine jammed just a bit, thus my oopse. I had a
> pucker.
>
> My husband had so much fun putting the machines together last night. He
> could not wait to try the machines, smile. So I set up the chunky machine
> and he went at it knitting. He had the biggest smile on his face as the
> knitting appeared in front of him.
>
> I just had to share with all of you! Woo hoo!
>
> Becky and my full partner Jake
>
>
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