[Nfb-krafters-korner] quilting

Blindhands at aol.com Blindhands at aol.com
Mon Feb 7 23:42:34 UTC 2011


I quilt by hand.  That way I can feel my stitches and seam allowances  and 
maybe it is not perfect, but it is my quilting by my hands.  That is  how I 
got my screen name Blind Hands, I startedfiguring out how I could sew and  
quilt  and was just learning how to see with my hands and fingers.
 
Actually, I never thought too much about  quilting with a sewing  machine.  
I do not know how or if a blind person [totally blind] could use  a regular 
machine to quilt.  I know they have all these sewing machines out  there 
for quilting, but you drop your feed dogs and you are free hand  sewing.  Now 
let me tell you that the commercial quilting machines that are  computerized 
and has the long arms and table I have had my hands on.  Some  places that 
do machine quilting let people rent out their machines.  There  was a place 
that use to do that in my town.  It was so cool and the fact is  the machine 
was moveable on an arm with a grip handle to move it around.   It also had 
the capability  of programming  the quilt design and it  just did it by 
itself.  The man and his wife who owned it spent time to  explain it to me and 
he thought it might be possible for him to teach me.
 
I had cut out all my quilt tops with rotary cutter and I had found a lot of 
 things to use to help guide my cutting of strips   I learned some  tricks 
of doing half square triangles and stuff like that.  
 
Have you ever hand quilted?  Do you have a sewing machine now that  
straight stitches?
 
 
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 2/7/2011 9:45:54 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
tknox6 at sc.rr.com writes:

Joyce,

First, advice. Which is better, to hand quilt or  machine, Ii know it is 
your
choice, but for a blind person, I do not want  to jump in with expense and
find I should have gone the other way. There is  little written on the
subject to make the choice. I did quilt by machine  and rotary cutter and I
have found material by quilt companies, precut but  am torn between setting
up a hoop or machine. Thanks.

Terry  K

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Terry


Ask away.  I have been sewing way before  I went blind and I continue  my
sewing now.  I am a  quilter.  I never had time to hand quilt when I  had my
eye  sight, but I truly enjoy it now.

I tell folks I put a lot of feeling in  my quilting!  Sometimes they  get 
the
meaning.
Joyce   Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)  
Blindhands at AOL.com
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