[Nfb-krafters-korner] [Bulk] Re: easy sock pattern?

Thu Jan 12 15:28:07 UTC 2012

I have now been "de-lighted" for four years. The first thing I learned to do 
on my own, before I could get some help and rehab, was to knit again. When I 
lost my sight I had been knitting since a small child and could do antyhing 
at all. Once de-lighted, it was impossible because I kept trying to SEE the 
stitches, and could not. Finally, I realized I needed to close my eyes, so 
that my BRAIN could understand that my eyes were not working.  After four 
years, the brain still thinks the eyes can see.  But the other thing is that 
a person who has not been blind very long does not have a sensitive touch at 
all - usually. Doing things by touch is not something that is easily done 
and is not so successful a lot of the time. I realy on sighted knitting 
friends to look at my work and find the things I cannot find by touch. And, 
usually they are things that I could never fix at all by touch even if I had 
found them.  I have figured out what kinds of yarn and what kinds of 
patterns are more successful for me, so that I what I do these days. It is 
still GOOD.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise Shaible" <denise.shaible at att.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] [Bulk] Re: easy sock pattern?

> This sounds interesting.  I'm sure it's difficult for someone who hasn't 
> been blind for very long to give up the idea of seeing what they're doing. 
> I've knitted with and without sight and find that it takes practice but 
> can be done.  I still like to have a sighted person look at my work after 
> it's done but, I find that I can do my work by myself.  I currently only 
> have light perception.  Maybe any of you who are wrestling with this issue 
> could close your eyes and do what you know how to do.  this may be 
> frustrating at first but, if you want to do any kind of craft and you're 
> blind, especially knitting, it's worth a try.  Actually, that's how I 
> originally learned to read Braille.  I had some sight back then with my 
> glasses on.  My teacher told me to take off my glasses and close my eyes. 
> It helped very much. Well, that's my take on things.  I hope it helps.  If 
> not, that's okay, too. I really know what it feels like to be blind and 
> still want to see or to have some residual vision and not have the 
> training to prepare me for the day when I would only have light 
> perception.  I guess you could say I've been there and done that when it 
> comes to transitioning from vision to blindness.
>
> Regards,
>
> Denise
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Annette Carr
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:38 PM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>
> I insert my life line into the stitches after I get the row knitted.  I
> either use a 00 circular needle or a piece of scrap yarn on a needle.
>
> HTH,
> Annette
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Melisa Loutfi
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:23 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>
> Teri,
>
> I also became blind recently. I am interested in learning the lifeline
> method that you discussed below. I have used something similar in the past
> to preserve stitches before ripping out. I would run a darning needle with
> thread  through each stitch in the row below the problem row. Then I could
> rip back.
>
> In the lifeline method, is the knitter  to insert a cable through a
> stitches as the row is being knitted as a safety precaution?
>
> Melisa Loutfi
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:
>
>> Linda;
>> Get your friend to teach you about using a life line so you can take out
> errors and not lose your work.  We had some discussion about it, maybe a
> year or so, ago.  You put a thin cable through your stitches and every 5 
> or
> 10 stitches, you move the cable up your work, to hold your stitches, while
> you work, some more.  If you have to take out stitches, the cable will
> prevent your stitches from running past that point in your work.
>> I understand the consept, but am not any good at the method.
>>
>> Terry P.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: River Woman [mailto:riverwoman at zoominternet.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:28 AM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>>
>> Though I have been a knitter for about 60 years, doing it
>> non-visuaolly is an enormous challenge for me. I have a very hard time
>> even when doing double yarn overs. Right now, I am working on a shawl
>> that has them every 6th row - and I have quite a few that I have lost
>> and did not know it till it was too late to work them in - so, on this
>> shawl, when I am finished, I will put some nice crystal beads here and
>> there, beginning with all the places where I have lost stitches. I
>> have tied them with a strand of yarn, and so I know where they are -
>> when the shawl is done with the knitting part, I will put some
>> crystals and pearsl here and there all over the shawl. I hope this
>> will be a nice detail - but it has certainly grown out of my inability
>> to FIX mistakes. Most mistakes, I cannot fix myself - even afer four
>> years of working my butt offf to re-learn how to knit again.
>> Fortunately, I have a very good friend who responds to me calls for
>> "Knitting Emergency" help. I do not, and never
> will have that sense of touch that a long time blind person has had since
> childhood. My brain is still VISUAL, and I imagine it will always be that
> way. I am still a visual learner regardless of the fact I cannot see what 
> I
> am knitting.
>>
>> I understand all things visually, not through touch. Trying to FIX my
> knitting boo boos through touch is not working very well at all. I can do 
> it
> somewhat, but not well.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lovette Yewchan" <lyewchan at telus.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 10:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>>
>>
>>> I suppose tube socks would work but wondered about the heel ones.  He
>>> instep picking up etc. sounds too complicate for me at this point.
>>> Lovette
>>>
>>> On 2012-01-09, at 5:11 PM, River Woman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lovette, I have the same dilemma. I  used to make socks whe I could
>>>> see but now I cannot do it. I would really love to make them again,
>>>> but I just end up with a mess now - I would love some ideas on how
>>>> to do them in a way that I could manage. Lynda
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lovette Yewchan"
>>>> <lyewchan at telus.net>
>>>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:26 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It is wool ease size 2.75 MM needles recommended.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2012-01-09, at 10:02 AM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What type of yarn do you have for these socks?  Without weight of
>>>>>> yarn no idea what to advise for you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joyce  Kane
>>>>>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>>>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a message dated 1/9/2012 12:41:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>>>>> lyewchan at telus.net writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi  there. I have soome sockease wool and want to make socks but
>>>>>> the pattern on  the paper is too hard for me. DOes someone know of
>>>>>> a beginner sock pattern  that would not be too hard?  Thanks.
>>>>>> Lovette
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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