[Nfb-krafters-korner] Tip of the Week - Keeping track ofstitches

Tue May 31 11:40:23 UTC 2011

Joyce and Linda;
When you both were sighted, did you both use your sight to do your knitting?  Did you actually visually watch every stitch you made.  When you see people knit, you think of it as a very relaxing craft.  What little I know, I have always done by tutch.  Same with my plastic camvis.  People marvle at how I can find all those little holes and obtain such even stitches and not even look at what I am doing.  The only thing I use what little sight I have is for iedentifying my projects and yarn colorsmost of the time.  
Speaking of stitch markers, I use them in things like hats where counting stitches matter.  I do not use them in blankets or scarves.  I hardly ever have dropped a stitch and I can knit faster with out them.   

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: River Woman [mailto:riverwoman at zoominternet.net] 
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 7:56 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Tip of the Week - Keeping track ofstitches

I can say the same, Joyce.  I am still struggling with it - I still try to do it the way I did it for over 50 years, and I get soooooo frustrated.  I went from advanced knitting, to pre-school level knitting and even then have troubles.  Recently you all told me to do the markers and now I am doing it - my R Reader's Wrap has about 100 stitches across, so I have put a marker at the end of the border, and then one every 20 stitches of the basketweave pattern I am making in between the border. I still am having problems and still have had to ripit ripit ripit, but it is going better. I have always been a very fast knitter, and I need to SLOW down, which is HARD to do. If I was not able to use the CCTV, then I would NOT be able to fix my goof ups...I cannot feel the stitches at all once they are dropped or missing in action. And, most of the time, I give the project to my friend who tears it down and fixes it and then gives it back to me. If I had not had her the past 3 years, I would not have been able to knit again, at all. I try to do as much as I can, labor over it, and sweat over it, but I still need the help of a sighted person when I am in knitting trouble.

Lynda River Woman
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From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Tip of the Week - Keeping track ofstitches

> This is an excellent question.  I must tell all of you this.   After I 
> went
> blind and decided to pick up my knitting needles once again and  give 
> it a try, I tried or did it the same way as when I could see.  Man,  
> that did not work.  I knitted by day and ripped it out in the middle 
> of the  night.
> Days and nights were all turned around for me at that time,  too.  
> After ripping out the sweater I decided to try knitting for myself 22  
> times, I learned that I had to be much more organized and I found that 
> stitch  markers every 10 stitches was what help me to relearn knitting 
> blind.
>
> Now that I have been blind for almost 14 years and do a lot of 
> knitting, I have not given up my stitch markers.  As some of you know 
> I recommend a nice large bag of rubber bands for stitch markers and I 
> use them on all projects.  When doing something in the round I like to 
> put those rubber bands every 20 or no more then 24 stitches.  It is 
> not hard to mentally  count 20 stitches.  I would suggest if you are 
> doing a pattern to stick  them in there or even half way between a 
> repeated pattern.
>
> I have not done a lot of crocheting since I went blind.  I do like to 
> crochet, but I tend not to seek out crochet patterns.  I will say that 
> the traditional metal crochet hooks are not the easiest or most 
> comfortable for me to use.  I have found that they have some that have 
> padding and kind of a flat handle to hold and they are much better for 
> my hands to hold onto.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 5/26/2011 9:59:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> amcarr1 at verizon.net writes:
>
> Tip of  the Week for 5/29/11
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> Category:  Knitting,  Crochet
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> How to you keep track of your stitches?  Do you  use Markers?  If so, 
> what kind?  Do you divide stitches up into  groups of a certain number 
> or by the number of repeats in your  pattern?
>
>
>
> Submit your ideas for future Tip of the Week questions  to 
> amcarr1 at verizon.net
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>
> Annette
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