[Nfb-krafters-korner] latch hook rugsRe:

[Theresa Taylor]

Another tool that is handy for making your own patterns is a wooden 
measuring tool for cutting the yarn to the proper lenth. This tool is about 
15 inches long and it has a deep groove on one of the long edges. You take 
yarn and you wrap it flat around this piece of wood and then take scissors 
and cut down the groove and that gives you the right size yarn for latch 
hooking. I also use different lengths of yarn to help produce other affects 
like a pasture with longer grass etc.
Theresa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters


> Susan,
>
> That's a good idea for the rug edges. Now, what do you do for patterns? 
> I've thought about doing like an old fashioned patchwork rug where there 
> are random blotcches of color and letting it all blend together. Like when 
> they used to cut up clothes or whatever they had for the quilt.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Susan Roe
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:13 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>
> Taking care of the rug hook edges is easy and you do it as you work.  Fold
> the edges so many squares over and you put your hook through two holes and
> latch it together.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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>
>> Now maybe something like latch hook canvas is more the material for 
>> things like ribbon and fabric. It is 3.75 holes per inch. To use ribbon, 
>> it will have to be more like a cord or rolled up in a rope sort of for 
>> plastic canvas which is 5 or 7 count won't it? I think standard plastic 
>> canvas is 5. One caution about the latch hook canvas is that you will 
>> have to finish the edge on the back somehow! If you don't, it will 
>> unravel with use.
>> Greg
>>
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Theresa Taylor
>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 5:32 PM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>>
>> There is a cool material that Carol found in Michigan known as t-shirt 
>> cloth
>> and it is called Jazz, and it is two thick for actual plastic canvas, but 
>> in
>> this light I wonder if there is a way to split it into smaller stripts or
>> use another type of fabric that is washable. The Jazz material is 
>> awesome!
>> Theresa
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Yvonne Alaniz" <yalaniz1 at gmail.com>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 4:08 PM
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>>
>>> Oh, ribbon...  never thought about using ribbon.  That could get me into 
>>> a lot of trouble lol.  I can see myself standing in the ribbon isle at 
>>> hobby lobby now with a color id in one hand and a basket in the other 
>>> full to the brim with all the pretty ribbon it can hold.  The reason I 
>>> was asking about other materials for coasters is that I wanted something 
>>> a bit more sturdy and stain resistant than yarn or fabric.  Just not 
>>> sure what kinds of materials might work.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yvonne
>>>
>>> On 1/8/2011 4:04 PM, Theresa Taylor wrote:
>>>> I don't know about the patterns or stiches, but I have seen different 
>>>> tyeps of ribbon used. There is ribbon out there in so many textures and 
>>>> forms that it adds an extra dimension of depth to the project. Hope 
>>>> this helps!
>>>> Theresa
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yvonne Alaniz" <yalaniz1 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 9:56 AM
>>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to know if anyone has a pattern for canvas coasters?  I 
>>>>> would also like to use something other than yarn for them.  Maybe some 
>>>>> kind of wire or twine?  Having said that I could use some ideas about 
>>>>> the count of canvas to use for such a project or a pattern that others 
>>>>> have used and liked.  The only stitch I know how to use is the half 
>>>>> cross stich.  Thanks for the help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yvonne
>>>>>
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