[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles

[Barb Roland]

Thanks Terry P, that's what I needed to hear err read.
Barb
'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine, 
freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian Anderson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas needles


> 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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