[Nfb-krafters-korner] welcome Deidre

[Becky Frankeberger]

Hi Deidra, You know me also, smile.  Have you tried trimming your yarn?  I
have a flower rug here that is three dimensional with the flower fibers
longer then the background. In fact the peddles of the flowers are longer
then the middle of the flower.  I was thinking about your water color free
form designs. If each color is a different length then the other colors, wow
would it pop even more with tons of interest to the eye.

But hey you know me I am always thinking out of the box, giggle.   


Becky and Jake waving a paw to lovely Louise.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Deidre Muccio
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 5:56 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] welcome Deidre

Hello Barb
I just joined the list today and also signed up for a beginning knitting
class. I know at least one other person on this list which is how I found
out about it. 
	What I wrote earlier today is that I once was a visual artist before
my vision went down the tubes, and I've always loved beautiful cloth and
natural fibers. I also have a lot of artists friends whose works include
dining in the dark projects, "unseen dances" art to be touched and not
strictly looked at, sculpture made of all kinds of materials, , and now rug
makers. I did see the most amazing yarns and a shawl to die for at the fair,
made by a couple in Colraine Ma. I believe they were called something like
Moonrise Designs, or maybe it was Moonshine.
After going to that fiber art fair, where I met the owners of a local Wool
and Die shop, I got hooked on rug hooking. the shop owners wasted no time in
showing me different tools, frames, cloth, the cutter, backing and
techniques, and off I went. It's very fluid, and there is tremendous freedom
to create one's own patterns and hook in one's own style.
	I have a neighbor who is an embroidery and twined woven rug maker
and teacher,, and she knits, and has rooms full of warps, looms, needles,
yarns, wool, and who knows what else. She's very excited about my new
endeavor and loves to say that she and I "think out of the box." We can talk
design, and color, and clearly understand each other. This afternoon, she
gave me my first lesson in knitting with various types and sizes of needles,
including some very large wooden ones that I used a scratchy wool rug yarn
with - those thirteen's were embarrassingly very easy to handle  , like
handling drum sticks!. We started with the finer circular 8 24 inch with the
4 ply stuff which was a challenge to get that needle under. I lost some
stitches when they dropped off and the circular needle got all tangled up.
Otherwise, after awhile I could do it, though not without a lot of effort
and certainly not rhythmically and quickly as she. I suppose that will take
awhile. All the same she said I learn fast. It sure did not feel fast to me.
After rug hooking though, where each loop comes up one at a time, well the
thought of  a single row of something like 185 stitches doesn't seem so
daunting. This neighbor is always handing me things to feel. The last scarf
she showed me, I was ready to just about beg for. It looks like I'll have to
learn how to make my own.

	Deidre


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