[Nfb-krafters-korner] Baltimore

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Carol,
 
People are being flown into Baltimore for the EBay course on Monday Feb.  
21.  Sorry I will miss the meeting.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 2/11/2011 8:13:34 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
csiegel at bellatlantic.net writes:

Hi Every  one, I am glad that Joice is going to be a member of the first 
Ebay  
Class.
If you come in early in the weekend, The Greater Baltimore  Chapter has a 
Breakfast at 9 AM.
The Meeting is from 10 AM to  noon.
The 19th is the date of the meeting.
Our Chapter meetings are the  third Saturday of every month.

If you want to call me,
my telephone  number is:
(410) 486-2183.

Thank you.

Carol  Siegel


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lindy van der Merwe"  <stephlin at iafrica.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists"  <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:00  AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fabric question


> Hi  Dixie,
> I have not done a lot of quilting, so perhaps others might have  more 
ideas 
> for sorting and storing. I mostly use long pins with  plastic heads for 
> sewing. I find them much easier to work with than  the pins with the 
small 
> metal heads. If my fabric feels the same on  both sides, I will first ask 
> someone to check if it actually has a  right and wrong side since some 
> fabrics not only feels the same on  both sides but also looks the same. 
If 
> the fabric has a right and  wrong side, I will usually mark the piece by 
> holding the fabric so  the right side is nearest me and inserting the pin 
> so the plastic  head indicates the right side of the fabric.
> With the star and the  flower, only one cut is required per shape, so you 
> should be able to  keep track since you are folding in a sequence. You 
> might first want  to cut all your scrap fabric into similar sized 
squares, 
>  though.
> If you have many different scraps of fabric, perhaps you can  ask someone 
> to help you sort it into different piles of matching or  complementary 
> colors and, at the same time, help you to pin the  pieces on top of each 
> other with the right sides on top and the wrong  side facing down. You 
> could do this before or after the cutting  process or after both.
> I hope I am making sense here. Perhaps others  can explain better or has 
> some ideas on this subject. I'd love to  hear how others do this too.
> Lindy
> ----- Original Message  ----- 
> From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
> To:  "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
>  <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011  2:26 PM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fabric  question
>
>
>> Ok, so how does a person who is total  keep track of the right and wrong
>> sides of the fabrics?   Obviously the first cut is the easy one to figure
>> out, but for  quilting, I have a closet full of scraps.  This sounds 
like 
>>  a
>> project for the  sighted?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Dixie
>> ~  @-> ~ <-@   ~
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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