[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles

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

Barb;
As long as you can get the yarn to slide in to the eye of the needle and both sizes of needles are close in size, I would not wory about the size.  They could be two lengths of the same size needle or size 15 and size 16.  As I said before, as long as the yarn fits in the eye and the needle fits in the canvis hole, easily, the size of the needle is not important.  I would say a size 16 needle has an eye about 1/16 of an inch wide.  You can easily feal it with your finger.  It is a lot larger than a sewing needle in with.
Let me know if you want me to send you one with your canvis, if you still question the size of your needles.

Terry Powers


-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Roland [mailto:barbwire59 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:42 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles

Well, I need to identify the needle size before I can mark it. As I stated before there are 5 needles in the package, 3 of one size and 2 of another size. The package itself does not say what size the needles are, it just says Plastic Canvas needles.
Barb
'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zimmer, Cindy" <cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles


> You could use Braille on a card with a bread tie hooking the card to 
> the needle.  The Bread tie will go through the eye fine.
>
> Cindy Z.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barb 
> Roland
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 7:37 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
> 'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have 
> sunshine, freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian Anderson 
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