[Nfb-krafters-korner] beaded heart-shaped basket

[Kendra Schaber]

I have had my hang-up with a rag rug yesterday. A friend made me a shuttle 
so that I can weave my rag rug at a faster pase. The problem was that the 
shuttle was a bit too thick to go under the edge of the loom which has a 
mettal bar to weave around. Once my friend got taller eye hooks and taller 
nales to go on the ends that holds the metereal that I weave around, we had 
to install the I hooks and the nales on the spot because the strips that I 
was working with was too long. It slowed down my weaving. Two men and I got 
the I hooks and the nails installed right but I discovered that I have to go 
half as long of strips that I tried working out yesterday even with the 
taller I hooks and nails. The shuttles work fine under the bar but the 
strips with their bulk doesn't without cutting them in half. Between 
working, doing homework, keeping up with the end of the football season, and 
everything else that life throws at you can be wild at times. I'm glad that 
I am working out the bugs now rather than later! Maybe I'll have the bugs 
out by spring.
Kendra Schaber
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy" <flowersandherbs at gmail.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 7:24 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] beaded heart-shaped basket


> Hi beaders,
>
>
>
> Well, as usual I didn't do things right the first time and had to undo my
> work and try again. this is a common state of affairs for me. tonight I 
> put
> the pins on facing in the wrong direction. We were all talking about 
> whether
> there was a way to fix the problem without undoing it. Joyce and Theresa
> said there was "no way" but Len kept saying it didn't matter! So I redid
> three quarters of row 2 and it was only then that I realized what Len had
> been trying to say! I believe what he meant was that if I had simply 
> flipped
> the entire project  down onto my tray with the spines facing up instead of
> down against the tray, I could have folded up the pins for the sides and
> been fine with the beads facing outward.  Wish I'd understood what Len had
> been trying to explain, or wish I'd figured this out before I'd nearly
> redone the entire second row. <sigh> once again I must put this down to a
> learning experience and accept that as usual I must learn things the hard
> way.
>
>
>
> Cathy
>
>
>
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