[Nfb-krafters-korner] Witty Writer

Tue Jan 25 10:36:32 UTC 2011

Well, I guess I'm a poet and don't know it!

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrietta Brewer" <gary.brewer at comcast.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Kitchner Stitch and other Techniques

> Hi Susan,
> Okay, not only doyou write heart warming messages but now witty messages. 
> lol
> Henrietta
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Susan Roe wrote:
>
>> Thanks Henrietta, my family mean so much to me and since I am the "head 
>> of the family" even though I am not the oldest, managing the farm and 
>> three households, being one of the major contributers to our local NFB 
>> chapter, I need my crafts to bind me together.  Lord help us all if I 
>> start to unravel. LOL
>>
>> Susan
>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrietta Brewer" 
>> <gary.brewer at comcast.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 11:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Kitchner Stitch and other Techniques
>>
>>
>>> Hi Susan,
>>> Your discriptions of your knitting are way beyond me. But your stories 
>>> of you family warm my heart. I am so glad to hear such lovely stories of 
>>> family.
>>> Henrietta
>>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Susan Roe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ninn,
>>>>
>>>> A Liberty Cap, also called Foresters or Voyagers Cap, is a style of 
>>>> wool cap from France that was worn in the 1700's and 1800's by the 
>>>> French, Brits and Colonials in the Americas at that time.  The Liberty 
>>>> Cap was usually dark blue, the Foresters Cap was green and the Voyagers 
>>>> Cap was dark red.  I have also been told that French trappers also wore 
>>>> their caps red.
>>>>
>>>> They are smoothly knit with no ribbing, just stockenet in the round. 
>>>> Often along the front of the fused brim there would be a line of just 
>>>> X's all around or even slogans like "Don't tred on me".  The caps are 
>>>> also long and tapered, not quite to a point with a tassel dangling at 
>>>> the end. Men would often take a fancy pin or even a broach and fasten 
>>>> it just above the tassel and secure the cap's slouched top to one side 
>>>> of the cap.  Picture a Santa hat all in dark blue, cut the top 3 inches 
>>>> off, fasten a tassel instead of a pompom and secure the floppy top with 
>>>> a pin. My sister says she has seen pictures of caps with a feather 
>>>> attached where the pin would be.
>>>>
>>>> It does call for a thin yarn, but not as thin as sock yarn.  I am using 
>>>> a worsted because I couldn't see myself trying to use a light sports 
>>>> weight on such small needles.  The pattern notes called for a zero, but 
>>>> I had only worked with a 2, so I compromised and went with a one.  For 
>>>> the conversion in size, I didn't trust any kind of recalculations on 
>>>> what it could probably look like.  I took the time to use their initial 
>>>> instructions of casting on 130 stitches and knitting about 10 rows.  I 
>>>> took that straight off the needles and pinched it up to where it should 
>>>> fit and decided to take off 26 stitches and went with 104 stitches 
>>>> instead.  I went back to the directions on how to work a provisional 
>>>> cast on and hoped I was doing it correctly and went on from there.
>>>>
>>>> I can say with a smile on my face, I have successfully knit the 
>>>> provisional cast on, knit the first flap of the brim, put in the brim 
>>>> welp, knit the front half of the 3 inch brim, put in a trapeze line, 
>>>> and fused the brim together.  I am already about one inch up from the 
>>>> brim.I stayed up past 10 o'clock Saturday night because once I started 
>>>> fusing the brim, I was afraid to stop until all 104 of those tiny 
>>>> little stitches were locked forever in their place.  LOL
>>>>
>>>> I haven't herd of the site you mentioned "knitter's math".  My gauges 
>>>> never fit what is called for, that is why I do so much modifying and 
>>>> running trapeze lines as I go.  It is my way of sculpting in yarn.
>>>>
>>>> Fusing a brim is first shaping your brim to be folded flat and then 
>>>> locked in place almost like the kitchner stitch, but not quite.  For 
>>>> this pattern, a fused brim has three important parts, the provisional 
>>>> cast on, the brim welp and "fusing" the stitches you picked up from un 
>>>> raveling the provisional cast on onto a second kneedle, and then 
>>>> looping them one by one up and over the corresponding stitches on your 
>>>> working kneedle.
>>>>
>>>> A trapeze line is the same thing as a life-line.  It has saved my 
>>>> sanity more than once and has definitely kept me from tossing several 
>>>> attempts at complicated stitch patterns in the trash.  LOL
>>>> I am very blessed to have my sister next door.  She is sighted, 
>>>> however, she is not a knitter and does very little crochetting, 
>>>> however, she is outstanding in reading and comprehending diagrams and 
>>>> pictures.  If she can read it and describe it to me, then I have no 
>>>> problems doing it.  Her talent is painting/drawing and when she started 
>>>> having some sight problems, she shifted to wood carving and has done 
>>>> nothing but excelled. No surprise there.  My husband paints/draws as 
>>>> well, does functional wood work,and Native American style leather work. 
>>>> He grew up with a mother and two grandmothers who knitted and 
>>>> crochetted.  He has the patients of Jobe looking through my pattern 
>>>> books when I'm trying to find something specific in mind and will read 
>>>> the pattern for me.  I can't help but smile and thank God for him when 
>>>> he is down on his knees in front of me looking over something I've 
>>>> knitted, trying to find something visually where I just know something 
>>>> dosen't"feel" right to me.  He also
>>> can't stand to see me ripping something out after I've spent days or 
>>> even weeks working on because he knows when I say it doesn't feel right 
>>> to me, he can tell me 100 times it looks fine, but I won't be happy 
>>> until it does.
>>>>
>>>> Susan
>>>> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
>>>>
>>>>
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