[Nfb-krafters-korner] : chat

Tue Feb 8 13:40:30 UTC 2011

Did anyone come to the chat?  I had a hard time getting in, but after I got in, there was no one there.  I stayed for a while, came back and no one was there.  What happened?

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindhands at aol.com [mailto:Blindhands at aol.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 7:38 PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] quilting

Hope you can make it to the chat tonight at around 8 p.m.  We can talk  a little more about it then.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

In a message dated 2/7/2011 4:21:49 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, tknox6 at sc.rr.com writes:

Joyce,

Thanks, this is just the correct information I am  looking for to make the right decisions. No, I do not have a sewing machine  now, and not sure as to if I should go that way. I liked hearing your idea,  and I am leaning to hand quilting for the same reasons, however, I have  never did hand quilting. I have to start from step one on this. Many  questions, like size of backing, batting, loop size, what is manageable, do  top first, then place in loom?
See where I am going. I have purchased  precut squares from a supplier and I liked your idea about hem ruler to sew  your stitch allowance, but should I be doing this first? Also is there  instructions on stitching? I like the idea of hand quilting, but want to do  it correctly, I have not been able to find any type of books or  instructions. Thanks for your reply.

Terry K

-----Original  Message-----
From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:43  PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  quilting

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

-----Original  Message-----
From:   nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]   On Behalf Of
Blindhands at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011  7:35  PM
To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject:  [Nfb-krafters-korner]  quilting

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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