[Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches

[River Woman]

OMG, I stand in awe of you, Joyce. That is wonderful. I have no idea how you 
do it!  And, I am whining about getting a little hole in my knitting! 
Thanks for this lesson is perseverance.  Lynda River Woman
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From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Dropped Stitches


> Isn't that weird that we do that.  I am talking about bending over our
> work coming closer and closer to it and not even realizing that I am doing
> that.  It seems like the more you concentrate on it and get absorbed into 
> the
> task I tend to do that.
>
> I am learning how to cane chairs.  I have at this point completed the
> first 5 steps.  So far so good.  Last week was the, "I just don't get 
> it".  It
> is the first diagonal.  I had spent time feeling the cane  work that I had
> done. [no clue on how I was going to figure out a  diagonal].  My 
> instructor
> wove in 2 diagonal rows.  I did not have any  idea which ones they were. 
> I
> felt and felt and then realized I was bent  over the chair so much and 
> since
> I have no light perception getting on top of it  wouldn't help me out.  I
> finally sat up and leaned back in the chair and  the instructor asked me, 
> Did
> I find it"?  I answered nope and said I have  to figure out another way. 
> I
> suggested howabout weaving something that  felt different.  She got this
> small 1/4 inche ribbon that felt silky, but  then I couldn't feel that.  I
> pulled a skein of yarn out of my bag[yep, I  carry a hat in progress on my
> circs in my bag all the time] and now both of the  instructors were over 
> with me
> putting it in the weave.  I could feel the  end of the yarn and a little 
> of
> the diagonal, but still did not have a clue how  it got that way.  I went
> home and thought about it over the weekend.   I went back there on Monday
> with a handful of rubber bands.  Since the  chair is large enough that you 
> need
> to spread your arms out to feel the front  corner and the back of the
> chair, as soon as I put my hands on the seat I lost  my orientation to 
> diagonal.
> Front and back did not give me any trouble as  I either sat the chair in
> the direction and then I sat facing either the back or  the side.
>
> Well I know I got lengthy with this, but I have to tell you when the light
> bulb went off above my head.  I first tried the rubber bands with the
> instructor insisting that this will not work.  Little did I know I was 
> heading
> in the right direction.  It did give me a tactile feel of the  direction 
> in
> smaller increments.  Then the other instructor came over and  she made 
> this
> comment to me, You work it like stairs. So you come up out  of the hole 
> and
> go down in the hole above that one and then you move over  one row and 
> come
> out the hole on the same row you are on.  I said the,  "shape of a stair 
> up
> the riser of the stair and over the top of the  stair?"   She told me yes.
> I have now learned how to do that  going upward and downward and when I
> return after the holidays I should finish  off the top of the chair doing 
> in
> that.  I have finished about 3/4 of  the seat.  I still have the other
> direction of the diagonal to learn and  then the last finishing around the 
> edge.!
>
> Joyce  Kane
>
> What a  learning experience.
>
> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>
> Blindhands at AOL.com
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