[Nfb-krafters-korner] new member

Tue Jun 8 18:31:13 UTC 2010

The closest I came to making pottery is when I signed up for a pottery class 
in college. However, the first day, I entered the ceramics room and 
discovered how incredibly slippery the floor was, and I, having brittle 
bones, felt it was way too dangerous to risk falling and fracture my back 
just to learn pottery. So I dropped pottery and added public speaking.  (Now 
that was really dangerous...*smile* at least I was one who got very nervous 
doing public speaking.  I heard of a study once that of a list of things 
most people are terrified to do, public speaking beats out dying in some 
people's minds.  I'm not quite that bad, but it takes me a bit of work to 
prepare something I am going to deliver to an audience.)
Anyway, how do you deal with the incredibly slippery floors in the pottery 
room?
It's worse than ice.
It's like a frictionless surface.
--le

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From: "MS S TILLETT" <suetillett at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] new member

I used to do pottery.  I took three semesters of pottery in college and 
learned to throw pots on the wheel, and also some handbuilding.  Some years 
later, when I was working at the Senior Center, I taught a pottery class 
there for about ten years.  The class was all handbuilding, and we glaised 
and fired our things at the local community college.  I had folks from age 
40 to 90 and two alzheimers women.  It was a wonderful class.  We made 
bowls, napkin rings, mugs, lamps, teapots, and little animals.  I loved it. 
I wish I had access to a kick wheel.

Sue, Wonder, and Gilly
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: slery
  To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
  Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 10:20 PM
  Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] new member

  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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