[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic camvis

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

Welcome Minh and Hi to Barb, Lindy and all others interested;

My original book, on plastic camvis, was written, with the assistance of Verizon's For The Blind, long ago.  I think someone else, looking for the book, discovered that they are no longer around.
Sheron Hooley and I transfered the braille copy of the book, back to text, on the computer.  The original book has thermaform diagrams.  I added descriptions for these diagrams.
The original book uses numbers for both rows and columns, defining the squares on the camvis.  While teaching my first two classes, my students and I have come to a conclusion that it is easier to understand, by defining the squares by using letters and numbers, not just numbers.  The extream corner would be A,1 instead of 1,1.

I am willing to teach people in a class, one on one or by even shairing tactual samples.  Some learn the best by being able to feal what they are going to accomplish.

Plastic camvis is a form of needle point.  It is done on a plastic grid.  The big trick with plastic camvis is there are no, yes I said no, knots!  You stitch over loose pieces of yarn, along the back of your work, how easy!
It is a combination of different sized stitches and different textured yarns and even chord.  I just discovered the sparcle chord, a few months ago and was able to create a sparkling Christmas tree, a sparkiling red heart and a sparkiling white snow flake and more.  I love the sparkle chord combined with a yarn background.
You can also feal the difference between chord and yarn.
It is an endless world of creativity.  I was thinking of how I might be able to add beads to create decorations on a Christmas tree, but now I found the sparkling chord, my decorated tree has been created!  The chord is a bit hard to work with for a beginner.  It likes to twist and you have to keep flattening it out for a neet look of your work.

Terry Powers


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