[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic camvis

Wed Jul 20 14:23:55 UTC 2011

I only have computer access during work hours.  DORS has not worked with me to set up a home account or show me how to access my work e-mail from home.  

Terry

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Terry,

Do you have access to a computer in the evening or on weekends?

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
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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)
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Tobacco Control  Research Branch
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