[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas and Latch Hook

Mon Jan 10 16:41:36 UTC 2011

It would be so nice to have some of those Dixie! I've always wished I could 
quilt because of the classic designs. So, this is a new way of possibly 
doing it! Are there quilt printables online so a sighted person could cut 
them out or do you have to buy a book?

Greg

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dixie
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:04 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas and Latch Hook

Lots of quilting patterns would work for this.  Jacob's Ladder, Flying
Geese, Tumbling Blocks to name a few.  There are quilt pattern books, with
100s of quilt block patterns.  It would take some sighted assistance, but,
one could help by cutting out the patterns of the block in a plastic, I like
to use old milk jugs, or old laundry soap containers.  Then you have a
tactile version of the quilt block.    Once you have a bunch of patterns,
you can even mix and match, seeing how a triangle fits with a rectangle, and
make up your own pattern.  The names are only names given to the blocks as
the stitcher thought the pattern resembled thus and such.

Dixie
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:40 AM
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usan and Dixie,

Thank you for these quilting designs. They are classic and also lend
themselves to a number of media. If you know others, do share! This way, we
create in our own way but if a sighted person sees it, they say oh that's
log cabin or crazy or whatever it is. I love it.

Greg

-----Original Message----- 
From: Susan Roe
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 7:15 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas and Latch Hook

Yep, that pattern would work with the latch hook and the plastic canvis as
well.

Susan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters

> This would also work with the "log Cabin" pattern.  A log cabin pattern is
> started with a square in the middle.  Then a rectangle is placed along the
> side of the square, over extending one side of the square by the width of
> the rectangle.  So, if one starts with a 2 inch square, they then have a 2
> inch by 4 inch rectangle.    Actually, that is repeated so there are 4 2
> by
> 4 inch rectangles boxing around the square.  Then the next set of
> rectangles
> are 2 inches by 6 inches boxing the prior round.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dixie
> ~  @-> ~ <-@  ~
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Susan Roe
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 11:23 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>
> Greg,
>
> That's definitely doable.  There is a quilting pattern that is called a
> Crazy Quilt and it is just made of different size squares and rectangles
> that you place up against each other in random patterns and colors.  This
> could very easily be done with the rug hooking even if you were to go
> around
>
> your grid canvis and start with one color and one size square, say 4 by 4
> and then go to another color rectangle, say 4 by 8, kind of making it like

> a
>
> puzzle as you go.
>
> Somewhere around here, and my husband has promissed to help me find it, I
> have a rug hook kit that is a simple American flag with "In God We Trust"
> written in black across the bottom.  When we find it, he will help me put
> the pattern on my netbook and I can share that with anyone off list.  It
> would be a great beginners pattern for anyone to try on their own.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 7:48 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
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "NCBootman" <ncbootman at gmail.com>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 3:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>>
>>
>>> 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"
>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 4:08 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] plastic canvas coasters
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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"
>>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>>>> 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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