[Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?

Fri Jan 13 06:06:23 UTC 2012

Wow, I never thought of using the weed eater line.  I had been thinking of 
heavy weight fishing twine, but that thin tough line sounds a lot better.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "artist" <imanartist at earthlink.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?

>I am a hand knitter.  I am using weed eater line for my lifeline.    It 
>works well  and is stiff enough to thread through and flexible enough to 
>use with circular needles and large pieces you might be working on.  I can 
>make it any length I want to accommodate the width of my piece.  JoAn.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
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> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
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>> If I remember correctly, you use a size zero or double zero knitting 
>> needle.  It feals just like the cable between 2 circular needles.  While 
>> your stitches are on the needle slide the thin needle through all your 
>> stitches.  After knitting a few rows, 5 or 10, it is up to you, remove 
>> the needle.  Replace it in the current row of your work.
>>
>> Terry P.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Melisa Loutfi [mailto:m.n.r.loutfi at att.net]
>> 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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