[Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience

Thu Oct 28 12:24:37 UTC 2010

Yes, I have to have my face right up on that large dark print to read it. I 
have a step stool here beside my shelves and have to get up on that to be 
close enough to read the labels on the boxes that are higher, too.

I love the shelves and drawer containers so much. This way I have a ton of 
stash, but it is nice and neat. Whenever people come into my office, they 
always have a look around and smile at my walls of neatly organized knitting 
yarns and projects.  Being as organized as I can be helps me a lot when I 
need to find things.

I like your idea about Braille. I have a basic knowlege of it, and could do 
the braille tapes on the fronts of my bins.  Thanks. Lynda
----- 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: Thursday, October 28, 2010 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience

>I have a plastic box with 4 or 5 slots to put needles in and I can put 
>folding sizzors there, too.  I think I might lose a pill bottle.  I can 
>sourt them out by size.  I like those quilted change purses for a pair of 
>sizzors and a needle or two, to cary with my project.  I usually have a 
>second needle.  You never know when you might drop one!
>
> Linda;
> How about adding braille to your large print labels.  This will prevent 
> straining for those high up items, and if you are learning, the print will 
> back up your braille.  I can read jumbo print, but surely not that far 
> away.
> I had alfa shelving put in my closet by the container store and also in my 
> londry room.  One wall is for crafts and other items.  I love it!  Shelves 
> are adjustable.
> Plastic draws from Walmart or Kmart are also helpful if you do not want to 
> put shelving in.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramona Walhof [mailto:rwnfbi at q.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 7:49 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>
> Linda, I certainly could not claim to be patient, but I may have a tip 
> that you would like.  I keep yarn needles in a pill bottle.  If you have 
> several things in plastic bottles, they can be Brailled.  If you don't use 
> Braille, other tactile markings will work.  Where aids and gadgets for the 
> blind are sold, there are generally glue on shapes to go on the top of 
> jars, etc.
> You can also use envelopes to sort things like needles and chrochet hooks 
> and trims, etc.  I don't do it as much as I wish I did.  But when I get 
> around to sorting things in bottles or envelopes and brailling them, it is 
> so nice too be able to find them so easily.
>
> Ramona
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>
>
>> Yes, for me it will be three years this week. Waiting has become a way of
>> life now and at first it was so difficult to know you had to wait for so
>> many things that were beyond your control. I still get anxious sometimes,
>> then I tell myself to relax and go on with something else. What bothers 
>> me
>> themost now, is losing things. Not being able to find something that I
>> normally would have found without delay.  I lost the piece of pottery I
>> had bought for my grand daughter's birthday present...have not yet found
>> it, so today I bought another one which I will give her. Where the first
>> one is, anyone's guess! I also searched for a very long time this morning
>> for the Addi Turbo Needle I had bought for the Life Line Class - fainny
>> found it exactly where it should be, but I had searched that place 
>> several
>> times and did not find it there...often times things are where they are
>> supposed to be, but I miss them again and again. Yes, I understand the
>> waiting game, too. Lynda
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:22 AM
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] patience, patience, patience
>>
>>
>>> Man, I will definately say I went blind 13  years ago and I HAD to 
>>> learn
>>> a
>>> lesson in patience.  Wait for a ride, wait to borrow someone's eyes  for
>>> a
>>> second to look at this or look at that, crawl around on the floor 
>>> feeling
>>> for something I dropped, wait to save some money to get this or that,
>>> that I
>>> just can't live without.
>>>
>>> OK enough of my wining.  Take me out in the bacdk yard and shoot  me.
>>>
>>> I think I will go put on Pandora radio and sit back and knit that other
>>> slipper for one of the Princesses.  Thank you so much for that class in
>>> cozy
>>> slippers.  I am making my first pair out of the 8 ply cotton yarn of
>>> Peaches and Cream.  The girls loved it when I got it.  Pinks and 
>>> purples
>>> and I
>>> got solid pink and solid purple for toes and stuff.so they can  tell
>>> whose is
>>> whose.  The oldest just wants it in the varigated yarn.   I feel the 
>>> calm
>>> coming over me...
>>>
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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