[Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome Ninn

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Ninn,
 
Welcome.  Please do tell me how or where you heard about Krafters  Korner 
or NFB Krafters Division?  I like to hear from the new folks how  they found 
out about us.  That is defintely one of my jobs getting the word  out to all 
visually impaired folks about the going ons over here at Krafters  Korner.
 
It is the right place to hang out as we do have a lot of different crafters 
 that do all types of crafts.  The best part as you said is and many of 
them  have figured out how to do it without sight or much available sight.  I  
started this up just for that reason.  
 
We all can go and take classes or join local guilds, but mostly the sighted 
 world have these things going and they don't have a clue what to do with  
us.  They don't understand maybe we know how to do it and just want to join  
in with others to share our projects, ask for opinions or learn from us or 
teach  us something new.  I started my own knitting/crochet group locally 
because  the one I had gone to and I asked about other groups, I was told they 
couldn't  teach me how to do it.  I did not want them to teach me as I had 
been  knitting and crocheting, sewing for 45 years and I had gotten back 
into doing  all of that after I went blind.  The group I started up by sitting 
on the  porch of a country store that my cousin owned were all sighted 
folks[I did get 2  other blind people to join us for a small time, but they all 
took me as a  kknitter and crafter that was blind, not a blind knitter.
 
I also thought how great it would be to somehow get a group of blind people 
 together to share their know how on doing crafting.  Well with the NFB and 
 the folks on this list it has grown into an international crafting 
happening for  the blind.
 
Please check out our website for upcoming classes that might interest you  
over on our website.
 
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.KraftersKorner.org) 
 
 
I do hope you take some time
 
 
 
Joyce  Kane
www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com