[Nfb-krafters-korner] Future Monday Night Chats

Tue Sep 14 20:20:26 UTC 2010

thanks for the ideas,  i will keep this email for reference.

God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
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skype: bubbygirl1972
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same for email.
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On 9/14/2010 9:26 PM, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:
> Hi Maria;
> NFB has plastic cards with allastic bands, that you can buy. I intend to use these in the future.  Dimo tape on the original label will work as long as the label stays on the item.  Index cards and a rubber band.  My cooking teacher made a hole in the card and knotted the rubber band after putting it through the hole.
> I have some sight and put coordinating colors in a zip lock bag.  At work when asking a color, I use a sticky note and put 1 or 2 letters in jumbo print to make me remember the color.  Lite blue I used, lb.
>
> Hope this helps.  In storage, I have a container with all my Christmas yarn, my verigated yarn, my baby colors and many boxes with solids.  I have easy access to the colors I am working on at the time.
> There are many things you can store yarn in.  I have a fold up londry basket, thin material, and it sits in my living room with many colors in it.  It is dark blue so does not show up much on my fire place harth.
> You just need to be creative.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maria aka bubby [mailto:bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:27 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Future Monday Night Chats
>
> Hi.
>
> how would you mark the yarn though without it affecting it so you can knit?
> thanks
>
>
> God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
> twitter: bubbygirl
> skype: bubbygirl1972
> msn bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com
> same for email.
> proud member of tafn
> listening to www.powerradio104.com
>
>
> On 9/11/2010 4:29 AM, Zimmer, Cindy wrote:
>> You can mark your yarn with Braille or any other alternative you like to use.
>>
>> Cindy Z.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of maria aka
>> bubby
>> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:05 PM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Future Monday Night Chats
>>
>> HI.  Imay be able to come to the october classes, any strategies for
>> knowing which colour yarn you have when working with different colours?
>> I'm thinking maybe Icould use the id mate to label the yarn when it
>> has the paper around it, but other wise, any ideas? also is it
>> difficult to work with different coloured yarns? or will that be part
>> of the class how to change colour?
>> also, it's cotton yarn Ineed correct? Ilive in a rural area so might
>> have to go search online
>>
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>> God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
>> twitter: bubbygirl
>> skype: bubbygirl1972
>> msn bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com
>> same for email.
>> proud member of tafn
>> listening to www.powerradio104.com
>>
>>
>> On 9/2/2010 7:21 AM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
>>> Here are some Monday Night Chats to mark on your calendar.
>>>
>>>
>>> September 13 8 P.M. Eastern time
>>>
>>> Monday Night Chat
>>> A knit together!  We will be knitting a fall dish cloth of  leaves.
>>> Pick out your cotton yarn and knitting needles and join us to work
>>> up a dish cloth to bring in the season.
>>>
>>> September 20, Monday Night Chat 8 p.m.Eastern time
>>>
>>> We are going on a bubble gum trip.  Come along and join us.  You
>>> have to bring your imagination along with you.  Henrietta will be our
>>> guide  for our trip.
>>>
>>> October  4 Monday Night Chat 8 P.M. Eastern time A Halloween Knit
>>> together.  We will have two Halloween dish cloths to  make this
>>> month.  One will be a JackO Lantern and the other is a Candy  Corn.
>>> The Candy Corn we will be working with different colors of  yarn.  I
>>> suggest you search for your 100% cotton worsted weight yarn  early
>>> enough to find it for these two Halloweenish fun cloths.  You will
>>> need 2 balls orange, 1 or
>>> 2 balls of black and 1 ball each of yellow and white  to make both
>>> these dish cloths.  Chit chat will be for the first half hour  and at
>>> 8:30 p.m. we will start our knitting.  The needle size suggested is
>>> between size 6 and size 8.  Please remember the smaller needle size
>>> works  better with the raised pattern on these cloths.  All you need
>>> to be  experienced is with casting on and off along with knit and purl.
>>>
>>> October 18 Monday Night Chat 8 P.M. Eastern Time
>>> Halloween dish cloth knit together   This is the other Halloween  dish
>>> cloth I told everyone about on October 4th knit together.  The
>>> suggested yarn that you will need is posted on October 4's listing.
>>> Chit  Chat will be for the first half hour and we will begin the knit together at 8:30  P.M.
>>>
>>> Phone number for Monday Night Chats are:
>>>
>>> 218 862 3242 Dawn's Den, hit #1 twice and then enter code #50.
>>>
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>>
>>>
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