[Nfb-krafters-korner] Summer crafting

[Zimmer, Cindy]

You guys are so funny.  No, actually the tie was much easier.  You take long pieces of duct tape and put them together to make a piece of "fabric" (double width of duct tape and duct tape back to back so you do not have any sticky tape exposed).  My client used regular cheaper silver duct tape for this.  Then you take an old tie and cut out the pattern.  We used the hard plastic cover from a Braille Book as our template of the tie.  This way, my client could cut around the pattern and feel where he needed to cut.  Once you have the tie shape, he then decorated the tie with the colored tape.  As I said earlier, he started at the small end of the tie and alternated the red and white duct tape.  He did this until he got toward the wider part of the tie where he started using navy blue.  I helped him with the white stars.  From last year's project that a client did, I know the stars are hard to cut out.  We tried using a template and a paper punch star cutter, but had trouble with both.  If anyone has any ideas, please pass them my way.  


Cindy Z.

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Terrence, never mind the sunvisor how about a tie?  Do you construct  the 
tie on the person until the Kountry Fair is over with?
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 7/22/2011 10:39:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gary.brewer at comcast.net writes:

OH you  newbes are in for quiet a story. We heard about this project last 
year and it  was a blast to read about. Let's hear about it again.
Henrietta
On Jul  22, 2011, at 10:29 PM, River Woman wrote:

> Yeah, Terrance, that was  my response to...what the heck????? Duct Tape?
> ----- Original Message  ----- From: "Terrence van Ettinger" 
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> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011  8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Summer crafting
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> 
>> Um--duct--tape--?  How do you make a sun visor out  of that?
>> 
>> Terrence
>> 
>> On  7/22/11, Zimmer, Cindy <cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov>  wrote:
>>> We are getting ready for the County Fair here in  Lincoln, Nebraska.  
We are
>>> doing duct tape projects and  Knitting bells on the kniffy knitter.  I 
made a
>>> sun visor  out of duct tape to turn in and a client is working on a 
tie.  His
>>> tie is red and white stripes on the small side of the tie  and the 
front of
>>> the tie is blue with white duct tape stars on  it.  Cool!!!
>>> 
>>> The knitted bells are  cute.  They are made on the flower loom and you 
hang a
>>>  jingle bell out from the center.  You can use them on the tree as  a
>>> decoration or on a present.  (might be a project I  teach in the future)
>>> 
>>> Cindy Z.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original  Message-----
>>> From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
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>>> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 1:31  PM
>>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject:  [Nfb-krafters-korner] Summer crafting
>>> 
>>> What  type of crafts do you like to do in the summer?
>>>  
>>> I know it is a busier time of the year to be outside and  gardening and
>>> enjoying the sunshine, but do tell us what type  of crafting you prefer 
to do
>>> in
>>> the  summer.
>>> 
>>> Joyce  Kane
>>>  _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
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