[Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

Fri Jun 18 12:29:00 UTC 2010

Will you have any extra beads with you.  I can bring my kit so we can identify the tools I have.  I can also bring the wrapping wire.  I need to know how to cut and bend the wire.  
I have a friend that uses a wheel chair and she has done beading.  She bends the wire to hold the beads on.  
Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: Sahar Husseini [mailto:sahar at inebraska.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 8:33 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

Yes, I will be there, selling also.  Ooh, wire-wrapping.  That's another thing I'd like to tackle.  I can see if I can help you identify the tools.  I use end cutters, side cutters, needle nose pliers, and round nose pliers for the most part.  I'm not positive which of them is chain nose because I use crimping pliers for crimping my necklaces.  I use the round nose for making my loops, and I love my end cutters.  Now, I know there are curved nose pliers.  I own a pair, but I don't think I ever used it.  I used the flat nose pliers to crimp in the old days, but they flattened my crimps, and I didn't like that.  They didn't look very professional, and I hated to have a beautiful necklace with a "flat as a pancake" crimp.  *smile*

Warm regards,
Sahar Husseini
For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, Please visit my Website at www.saharscreations.com And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
Michael Jordan
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
  To: 'List for blind crafters and artists' 
  Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:30 AM
  Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

  Sahar;
  Will you be at convention?  I got a beading tool kit, but do not know how to identify my tools.  I need to know how to cut wire and bend it so I can make wrap around bracelets.  Can you help me learn my tools at convention, please.
  I will be celling on 7/3.
  Terry Powers 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Sahar Husseini [mailto:sahar at inebraska.com]
  Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:24 PM
  To: List for blind crafters and artists
  Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

  Hi Lynda,

  With a bit of practice, you can crimp your clasps again.  I have a crimping tool that I use.  It really is easy, especially since you'd done this before.  Now, you'd just do it by feel instead of looking.  I use a 2X2 standard crimp tube, and I use crimping pliers.  My first few I did were either too tight or too loose, but then, the more I did, the better I got.  Of course, I had to restring the first few necklaces I made eleven years ago, but I got through that frustration.  The beadwork you described sounds fabulous.  I have not yet tackled using seed beads and weaving or any of that small work because I don't have the patience.  I would love to work with cabochons, too, but I hate glue, intensely.  *smile*  I am totally blind, and I make beaded jewelry using gemstones, sterling silver, pewter, and sometimes glass.  For years, I let my husband do my earrings.  Then, I decided that since I told my clients they could do anything they wanted, I had better learn how to make th
   at silly loop and start making earrings.  I teach at a rehabilitation center in Nebraska since jewelry doesn't pay the bills.  Now, I can make earrings, and that opened up a new world of designs for me.  Yes, I broke a few headpins, and still do sometimes.  The thing is, I now know I can do it.  I haven't yet decided to tackle seed beads and gluing cabochons, not because I think a totally blind person couldn't do it, but because when I was born, there was a shortage of patience, and I didn't get any.  *smile*  I hope you find some helpful tips on here.  You definitely can do this yourself again.

  Warm regards,
  Sahar Husseini
  For hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind jewelry, Please visit my Website at www.saharscreations.com And remember, "Obstacles don't have to stop you.
  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
  Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
  Michael Jordan
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: River Woman
    To: List for blind crafters and artists
    Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 3:43 PM
    Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

    Hello Joyce,

    On my website:
    The pottery was done since sight loss.
    The paintings done before sight loss.
    Jewelry, mostly done before sight loss but a few were done since sight loss.

     I do not know how to finish off a nceklace - I can do the beading of larger
    beads but cannot finish anything as I don't know how to use the crimper
    tool.  My daughters have finished things for me and they do not live near me
    so I can only get them done a couple times a year when I visit them. I work
    until I have a lot of things done except for the clasps, then take them all
    with me when I visit daughters and they finish them up. I really want to be
    able to do them myself.

    I have some peripheral vision, no central vision. I can tell where I am in
    the room, and can see light, but no detail of anything. I can only see
    things if there is strong contrast and it has to be something large. Like
    walking in a snowstorm that is very gray. Every thing is a blurr for me. On
    the 10 levels of blindness, I am at level 9, next to total blindness I was
    told it is called "profound sight loss" by the dr.

    Cabachons are stones made from any gem or semi-precious gem stone, but they
    are flat on one side and lay flat on the surface. There is no hole in them. 
    You have to do beadwork all around them and secure them to the surface with
    certain stitchwork.  It is called "capturing the stone."  I do this first in
    my design, capturing any cabs that I am putting on the surface. Then, after
    each cab is captured, the design work around the stones is done. It is
    called "encrusted beadwork" and is a medieval technique. I had been doing
    research on this kind of work when on Sabbatical, and lost my sight when I
    was 1/2 way through the Sabbatical. This is what I want to do once again, I
    am crazy about this kind of work. It is very complex and heavy, done in
    layers. The entire surface is covered completely with beadworking. No bit of
    the surface shows, only the beading. I love it.

    The things I sell at the festivals are my current work - all done since
    sight loss - pottery and jewelry.

    Lynda Lambert
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
    To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
    Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 8:50 AM
    Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beads and stuff Linda

    > What is gem stone cabachons ?
    >
    > Linda so is the work on your website and jewelry work done by you before 
    > or
    > after you went blind?
    >
    > Do you have any sight at all?
    >
    > Is the things you are selling at the craft shows your current work?
    >
    > Joyce
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