[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic camvis
Blindhands at aol.com
Blindhands at aol.com
Wed Jul 20 13:29:35 UTC 2011
Terry,
Do you have access to a computer in the evening or on weekends?
Joyce Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
Blindhands at AOL.com
In a message dated 7/19/2011 9:02:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Terry.Powers at nih.gov writes:
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
Theresa L. Powers (Terry)
Grants Clerk
Tobacco Control Research Branch
NIH/NCI/DCCPS/BRP/TCRB/DEAS
6130 Executive Blvd, MSC 7337
EPN 4039B
Bethesda, MD 20892-7337
Rockville, MD 20852-7337 (express mail)
Phone: 301-496-8584
FAX: 301-496-8675
E-mail: terry.powers at nih.gov<mailto:terry.powers at nih.gov>
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