[Nfb-krafters-korner] FRIDAYS QUESTION: What things as ablindcrafter do you find difficult in working your craft of choice?

[eileen scrivani]

Hi Laura:

Well, if you decide to do a class on mattress stitch & Joyce is good-to-go 
with it, you have at least one student so far.  Actually, I forgot about 
using a crochet hook and slip stitching seams together.  The neurotic, 
perfectionist side of me hears other knitters saying how there's nothing 
like mattress stitch though to seam pieces together.  If I remember, the 
slip stitch works, but the seam is a bit bulker than mattress.

I think if I got a good explanation & had a better understanding of what 
strands I should be going under I'd catch on ... I say that now!

Actually, I have a yoke style sweater I made last winter (bottom up and 
joined sleeves & body at under arms) and I just tried mattress seaming the 
little holes at the under arm.  I did one side and left the other one since 
I'm a doubting Thomas.  Never sure of what I'm doing.  I thought this would 
be good to start with because the seams will be in my armpits and if someone 
comments on sloppy work there they are looking way to closely.

Hope this will be a class in the very near future since I could always use 
it.

Thanks.

Eileen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura White" <lewhite86 at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FRIDAYS QUESTION: What things as 
ablindcrafter do you find difficult in working your craft of choice?


> Eileen I would be willing to teach that class.
> Have you thought of using a crochet hook to slip stitch the pieces
> together.  Its what I do.
>
> Laura
>
> On 4/16/10, eileen scrivani <etscrivani at verizon.net> wrote:
>> If I have knitted pieces that need to be seamed together, I find doing
>> mattress stitch not the easiest thing.  I have taken a class on how to do
>> mattress stitch, but wonder if the explanation was made more difficult 
>> than
>> it needed to be.  I'd like to see a blind knitter from this group offer a
>> class on sewing together side seams, and sewing top seams like what gets
>> done at shoulder seams, but not a three needle bind off,  in order to see 
>> if
>> I can make better sense out of the mattress stitch technique.
>>
>> Eileen
>>
>>
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