[Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
River Woman
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Sat Jan 14 13:32:08 UTC 2012
The Collective Unconscious is really how I get problems resolved and how I
learn new things most of the time. When I rely on my intuition I have far
less problems in my life. lol
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From: "artist" <imanartist at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 3:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
>I think you could call this proprioception. JoAn
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> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 5:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
>
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>> Me, too. I guess it is muscle memory at work - I do find that I often
>> knit with my eyes closed, too. I hold my needles very high to my chest,
>> and I knit with the needles pointing away from my chest and tilted up a
>> bit towards my face. My body remember how to do this and my brain just
>> doesn't remember that I cannot see. I have battles with my brain, a lot.
>> lol
>> Lynda
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 7:32 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
>>
>>
>>> Yep, I get a neck ache sometimes and then think why do I hold it up
>>> closer
>>> and bend down to see it. I do it when I am concentrating more, too.
>>> Habits, they don't go away.
>>>
>>> Joyce Kane
>>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/13/2012 7:26:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> amcarr1 at verizon.net writes:
>>>
>>> Cathy,
>>>
>>> When you are ready to pick up knitting needles again, we will be here.
>>>
>>> I too enjoyed the discussion. I found it interesting about where
>>> people
>>> held their hands while knitting. I find that when I am really
>>> concentrating
>>> hard on working a difficult pattern, or fixing a mistake I hold my
>>> hands up
>>> near my chest. When I am more relaxed, I hold them lower. I find that
>>> I
>>> keep my head tilted down toward my work even though I can't see what I
>>> am
>>> doing, and sometimes my eyes are closed. I think the closed eyes part
>>> is
>>> because I am visualizing in my head what I am doing.
>>>
>>> Annette
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cathy
>>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:55 PM
>>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
>>>
>>> I want to thank everyone who chipped in to discuss this topic. Not just
>>> about the life line and various choices for what to use, but the use of
>>> needle protectors, stitch markers, and other tips. I believe now I will
>>> certainly try to knit with needles once again, one of these days. But
>>> at
>>> the
>>> moment I have so many things going, I am not certain I can handle
>>> another
>>> craft. However, I am certainly tempted to buy some needles and try
>>> again
>>> soon.
>>>
>>> Cathy
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Blindhands at aol.com
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:43 PM
>>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] knitting life line
>>>
>>> We had gotten these long circular knitting needles size 00 and a nice
>>> long
>>> size. Some of us got it from New Hampshirre mail order. I will have
>>> to
>>> dig around and come up with info. The fact is that you want a tthin
>>> knitting needle so it does not add any thing to your knitting thickness
>>> of
>>> stitches. As we Knitted the row or round with the regular knitting
>>> needles
>>> you worked the life line into the row. You then just left it there and
>>> continued to knit rounds or rows. Now if you were working a number of
>>> pattern rows it was suggested that you determine a number of rows and
>>> then
>>> move your life line up. You do not want to do this every row[too
>>> time
>>> consuming], but think of it as if a mistake is made you will easily rip
>>> out
>>> down to your life line and then reknit from that point. You want this
>>> life
>>> line needle to be longer then the piece of work you are working with
>>> so if
>>> you normally work on say something that measures 44 inche bust, you
>>> need a
>>> needle example
>>> 50 or 60 inche long. Don't hold me as I do not know common lengths
>>> of
>>> needles.
>>>
>>> You can use yarn, string or whatever, but the small 00 circular
>>> knitting
>>> needle is easy to feel, has points on the needle part, comes in long
>>> enough
>>>
>>> lengths and you can use point protectors or rubber[elastic bands to put
>>> on
>>> the ends so stitches will stay on.
>>>
>>> Joyce Kane
>>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/12/2012 12:26:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> flowersandherbs at gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Wow this knitting lifeline is a really interesting concept to me! I
>>> have
>>> never heard of it and gave up knitting with needles solely because I
>>> could
>>> never pick up my dropped stitches! Now years later I learn that this
>>> life
>>> line is a preventative to dropping stitches. So Annette, you knit a
>>> row,
>>> then thread yarn or a knitting needle in to that row before
>>> continuing? Am
>>> I understanding the concept correctly? Terry you said something about
>>> a
>>> cable, what do you mean?
>>>
>>> Cathy
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Annette
>>> Carr
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:39 PM
>>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>>> Subject: 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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