[Nfb-krafters-korner] any bulky machine knitters?

[Susan Roe]

Terry,

Her money maker is hand carved walking staffs and canes.  She gets the wood 
from off the farm.  She has also carved the following:

placks
cutting boards
hidden figureen boxes
3 domintional figures
boxes
carved wooden eggs
Christmas ornaments
the list goes on

My favorite piece is a Christmas ornament she called "Hang on Kitty".  It 
was a little orange striped kitten waring a Santa hat holding onto a ribbon 
that had been draped over a tree branch.  It looked just like he had jumped 
up to grab the ribbon and now was hanging up off the ground.  It is so cute.

She has won several first, second and best of show and best of division 
ribbons at our state fair.  She use to do a lot of painting, but when her 
vision changed, she just shifted to carving and she has been doing it ever 
since.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] any bulky machine knitters?


> Susan;
> What does your sister make from wood?  I had a beautiful letter holder 
> from deep creak lake.  It fell and when I picked it up, the back cracked 
> and came off.  I also have a small collection of carved birds and a few 
> horses.  Let us know what she can do.
>
> Terry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Roe [mailto:dogwoodfarm at verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:33 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] any bulky machine knitters?
>
> Hi Joyce,
>
> Yeah, you had mentioned that to me a while back.  It sounds real fun.  My 
> sister is a wood carver and whatever she sells, she gives 5% to 
> Dogwoodfarm as her controbution to running the farm.  There are going to 
> be several off shoots we will be able to explore as a by product of the 
> honey bees.  We have already heard from several farms that they would be 
> willing to barder honey for things we don't grow here, like blackberries.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] any bulky machine knitters?
>
>
>> Susan,
>>
>> Did I ever tell you that I made candles and sold them as a business for a
>> while a few years after I went blind?  I did this prior to 9 11  Soon
>> after
>> that time folks got tight with their money and I switched  over to  doing
>> candle art at craft fairs.  Candle art is granulated colored wax and  I
>> had
>> an array of glass jars that kids would do like sand art, but it was 
>> candle
>> wax designs.  I then would stick a wick in their creations put some
>> sirranne
>> wrap in the top and then screw on the top of the jar and add a bow and
>> send them off carrying their proud one of a kind creation.  I made up
>> labels
>> and stuck them on the bottomn of the jar that said "Created by Me!
>>
>> I had  to stop the ccraft shows as my friend who was sighted that  helped
>> me had a back problem which gradually worsened .
>>
>> Oh well I really enjoyed myself doing that.  I was out with kids,  making
>> some money and it was far from a steady 9 to 5 job.
>>
>> Joyce
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