[Nfb-krafters-korner] Do-it-yourself latch hook

Mon Feb 20 00:38:09 UTC 2012

Mike,

So after reading your chart in your email that was for 1 row.  Does it  
print the whole file out with all the rows and columns?  Can you copy this  and 
put it in say a word file to read?

I amIf you did the flower pup isn't that one of the kits we are doing the  
class with?  So Kathy do you have to go thru writing up the color chart in  
words or can you use this?

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

In a message dated 2/19/2012 10:59:55 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
flowersandherbs at gmail.com writes:

Hi  Michael,

Ok, I followed your instructions and uploaded my mystery  picture and was
able to view my instructions. This is really amazing! All  of the colors now
listed by row and column!

I did notice that  the chart is written beginning from top right left, and
since projects are  normally done from the bottom left, I would need to 
begin
at the bottom  right and move toward the left side to achieve the picture. 

Wonder  what I have a picture of anyhow?  I do know it is from my trip  to
Seattle this past summer. Wish I'd labeled the  files!

Cathy

-----Original Message-----
From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Michael 
Baldwin
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:22 AM
To:  'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Do-it-yourself latch hook

Cathy,
Hi, There is an asterisk link after  the Print / view your project! ] link
that brings  up the text.
After you upload your photo, find the  Print / view your project! ] link 
then
down arrow  once more with jaws. It will just say link unless you have it 
set
to read  the punctuation. Hit enter on that and it brings up the text. It
will look  something like this. Instructions are from a flower pup image I
uploaded  from amazon.com.

Your custom latch hook project  (leftsource.com).

Created February 18, 2012, 10:19 pm with  reference number 1329632302.

Important note: row 1 is the top of  the project, and column 1 is the left
side of the project.

Row  1 Column 1 301-White
Row 1 Column 2 301-White
Row 1 Column 3  301-White
Row 1 Column 4 301-White
Row 1 Column 5 301-White
Row 1  Column 6 301-White
Row 1 Column 7 303-Ivory
Row 1 Column 8  326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 9 326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 10  326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 11 326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 12  326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 13 326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 14  326-Turquoise
Row 1 Column 15 326-Turquoise

-----Original  Message-----
From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 19:00
To: 'List for  blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Do-it-yourself latch hook

Latch hook making program

Hi  Michael,

This program was quite interesting and has potential, but it  can not work
for a totally blind person without assistance at this  point.

My sister and brother-in-law uploaded a picture of their cat in  front of
their Xmas tree. They were able to choose how many colors they  wanted in 
the
pattern and what size they wanted the canvas to be. the file  they 
downloaded
of the latch hook pattern for the cat was quite good and  had a chart 
showing
what square to put each color in. They commented to me  that if they'd had a
better picture of the cat and tree, the pattern  probably would have been
even nicer and if they'd asked to have more than  twelve colors the picture
would have looked even more realistic. As it was,  my sister was quite
excited by the possibilities for using the program for  herself and wants to
take a picture of her family and make a latch hook rug  of it. this was the
woman who has told me up till  now that she does  not want to do any crafts
anymore.

Anyhow, my brother-in-law sent me  a text copy of the pattern. It listed all
the colors in words for me with a  graphic and a letter of the alphabet to
represent what each color was. The  letters representing each color were not
intuitive in that the color forest  green was the letter A instead of 
perhaps
FG and the color silver was B  instead of perhaps SL. Then I was given the
yarns per inch of the project  and  was also given the size of the project 
in
inches and then had to  math out how many rows I would have and how many
yarns in each row.   No real problem, in this case it was 5 yarns per inch
and per row, making  it 60 by 45 yarns for a 12" by 9" project.

Then the real difficulty was  that the pattern was simply written out with a
graphic next to a letter in  the alphabet corresponding to each color. for
example: a c a a a b d f I  and so on. 

I was unable to determine where one row ended and the next  row began and of
course I could not remember which letter of the alphabet  stood for each
color.

This is a wonderful tool for a sighted person  to make their own latch hook
picture and for any one who has some one  sighted who can help them to read
the chart. You buy blank or lined canvas  and your own yarn and hook and 
away
you can  go.

Cathy
-----Original Message-----
From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Michael 
Baldwin
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:24 PM
To:  'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Do-it-yourself latch hook

Hi,
A while back I posted a site where  you could upload your own picture and
turn it into a latch hook  pattern.
Well, The site owner has made a small change. You can now get the  pattern 
in
text output.

http://www.leftsource.com/

There is a  star right after the print link after you have uploaded a 
picture
that will  give you the text output. I am looking to get some feed back on 
it
and  compile it all to send to the site owner.

You can upload any picture  you want for now for test purposes. Some of the
image stuff will still need  to be done by those with site, but this should
at least make it a little  easier.

I think it is pretty cool he has even done this much. Please  check it out
and let me know what you  think.

Thanks,
Michael
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