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

[Laura White]

I will email Joyce and ask her.

laura

On 4/16/10, eileen scrivani <etscrivani at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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