[Nfb-krafters-korner] new member

[slery]

Welcome, Lynda.

I am a photographer learning how to be a blind crafter. Feel free to jump in
and ask any questions. We have many knitters here, both sighted turned blind
and always blind. They can share many techniques with you. 

Good news. We have a blind instructor that teaches classes via phone in
beading/jewelry making all the time. I think she is teaching a class about
once a month or every two months. She also makes homemade jams and jellies
and sells her jewelry at farmers' markets and fairs during the summer. Her
name is Laurie Porter.

I do not remember if we have anyone on this list that does pottery or not.
However, if you don't get answers to your questions in this area, let me
know and I will get you in contact with someone that I know locally. She
isn't on this list and doesn't use email very often so I will have to call
her.

Again, welcome to the list.

Cindy Sheets, 1st VP, Webmistress
NFB Krafters Division
www.KraftersKorner.org




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Blindhands at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 2:59 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] new member
> 
> 
> We do have another new member that just joined us and she had 
> sent me  
> this.  You will find her posting soon under a different email 
> address as  she 
> sent this from another email address of hers.  You can reply 
> to my  email and 
> she will get to read it on the list.  She is aware of which  
> address she 
> signed up for now.
>  
> From: "Lynda Lambert" <_llambert at zoominternet.net_ 
> (mailto:llambert at zoominternet.net) >
> To:  <_nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org_ 
> (mailto:nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org) >
> Subject:  New Member
> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 14:13:17 -0400
>  
> Hello all,
>  
> I am new here and not sure how it rally works. But, I will 
> post thismessage 
>  and go from there. 
>  
> I am a visual artist and was a Professor of Fine Arts and 
> Humanities until  
> I lost my sight in 2007. I was a painter/printmaker.  Now, I 
> am learing how 
>  to
> make pottery and I am enjoying it very much.  I would love to 
> meet  other 
> potters who have vision loss and learn from them how to do 
> some things in  the future. 
>  
> I am also an avid knitter, have knitted most of my life. It 
> was the only  
> thing I could do after I lost my sight, and re-learning how 
> to knit again  
> without
> sight was the beginning of my path to recovery of my  
> artist/self.  I would 
> love to talk with other knitters. 
>  
> Finally, I have been making gemstone jewelry and doing intricate  
> beadworking for 7 years and after I lost my sight I have had 
> a lot of  frustration 
> doing
> it again. I just cannot use the crimp tool to finish off my  
> work. Does 
> anyone out there use it, and if so can you tell me HOW I 
> might do  it.  I would 
> still
> like to do bead embroidery, but have not had the  courage to 
> try it again, 
> but I am thinking a lot about it and I do want to begin  to 
> re-learn how to 
> do
> this non-visually, if that is possible. Does anyone do  bead 
> embroidery, 
> Russian Spirals, and things like this using seed beads? Or, 
> is  this just 
> wishful
> thinking for me??? 
>  
> I will appreciate any communication, since I have now learned 
> again how to  
> use the computer.  
>  
> I have a website at:  
> _http://lyndalambert.com_ (http://lyndalambert.com) 
>  
> I started a blog at:  
> _http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com_ 
> (http://www.walkingbyinnervision.blogspot.com)  
>  
> Thanks. 
>  
> Lynda Lambert
>  
> "I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods." 
> _Georg Trakl,  Austrian poet   
>  
> Visit my website:  
> _http://lyndalambert.com_ (http://lyndalambert.com) 
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