[Nfb-krafters-korner] welcome Deidre

[Deidre Muccio]

Yes, Becky, keep thinking out of that box. My neighbor showed me a twined
woven rug the other day I was ready to tuck under my arm and store for her.
She however was not going to part with it. She used venetian blind cord for
the fuzzy parts of the rug. Wow, it was fun. 
	For my latest piece, a neighborhood 7 year old boy cut out some
glitter sticky foam paper in the shape of fish and an eel. Another friend
who knows water and the ocean left in my mailbox some rubber cut outs of an
octopus, dolphin and sea horse. I stuck them on my piece temporarily. They
still sit there. Everyone loves the contrast of the smooth cut outs to the
hooked wool strips in all kinds of underwater colors. Eventually those forms
might be made out of felt but for now, people say just leave them. It's a
most whimsical piece, kind of what I intended but not my usual mossy,
suggestive continental type of rug hooking patterns. Oh wait, yes the water
colors do flow into one another. I often think I'll just do circles within
circles or spin off from that, or cubes of color spinning off from each
other, but the lines immediately become rivulet like and before I know it,
I'm once more drawing, so to speak, rivers and fields and sun splashing
through water, sky and woods.
	I do have to say that my little experiment with knitting yesterday
cause my two thumbs to go numb. I hope there will be some tips for how to
avoid repetitive stress syndrome.
	Speaking of dogs, mine is up and rarin to go snoop and leap around
in the snow around the corner of the house.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Becky Frankeberger
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 10:28 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] welcome Deidre

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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