[Nfb-krafters-korner] Marking Needles?

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

Barb;
On those kind of packages, it should give you a range of sizes of needles in the package.  They are usually in the package from small to large.  You should have been able to get a single pack of 2, size 16 needles.  Squeze the tip of the yarn and it should slide into the eye of the needle and also fit into the holes of the canvis, easily.
Send me, directly your home addres and what you want and I will get the canvis out to you.
If you go to Walmart or any hardware store, they have plastic boxes with about 4 inch slots.  I use one of the for my needles.  It has 5 or 6 slots.  I use a change purce or even some kind of bag for a few needles and sizzors to keep with my project.

Terry Powers


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From: Dixie [mailto:blueherons at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 9:20 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Marking Needles?

Barb,

In my sighted embroidery days I used to have a couple different ways to store needles.  
First of all I had a sort of book made out of fabric for the cover, a piece of ribbon to tie it closed, and in the booklet were 2 pages of felt.  This thing was about the size of a 3 by 5 card folded in half.  On the top of the pages we had embroidered a number that represented the size of the needle stored on that page.  So it would say 18 at the top of the page, and we would just stick the appropriate needle into the felt on that page.  Another way I used to keep needles was with small prescription bottles and just place a label on the bottle what was inside.



hth
 Dixie
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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barb Roland
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:37 AM
To: Krafters-korner
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles

Question on how to identify needle sizes. I just signed up for the plastic canvas class and yesterday went to get my yarn and needles. I found a package of plastic canvas needles with 5 needles of different sizes but nothing on the package to indicate what sizes they are. Can anyone tell me how to identify them? Also how do you mark or label needles?
Barb
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