[Nfb-krafters-korner] life line

Wed Jan 18 18:54:02 UTC 2012

Hi Cathy, got it!!! You might want to check out the gardening section of 
Home Depo or some other store like that to find out whether or not they have 
weed wacker wire. Just a thought.
Kendra Schaber

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy" <flowersandherbs at gmail.com>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] life line

> Hi Kendra,
>
> LOL, no we were not discussing gardening! We were discussing the idea of
> using a weed whacker wire as a life line for knitting.
>
> Cathy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kendra 
> Schaber
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:28 AM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] life line
>
> Hi JoAn, how about organic methods? If you are interested in gardening 
> such
> as myself, the best way to get rid of weeds is to pull them out of the
> garden as they are spotted or discovered in non-visual ways. Keeping the
> weeds out just by pulling them out as they are discovered every time that
> you go out to check up on the plants is actually pretty easy. Weed wackers
> are useful when the weeds are not discovered soon enough or have grown too
> big just to pull them out of the ground. There are also gardening tules 
> like
>
> garden hoes that also work well for getting rid of weeds. Just ideas to
> concider. It is a bit early in the year for this advice but me not 
> following
>
> the conversation has its consiquences. I thought that you were trying to 
> get
>
> rid of weeds since I have been noticing and hearing all over the news that
> winter is more like a "winger", the oppasit of "sprinter" if you get my
> drift. The planting season is on the horrizon believe it or not.
> Kendra Schaber
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cathy" <flowersandherbs at gmail.com>
> To: "'artist'" <imanartist at earthlink.net>; "'List for blind crafters and
> artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] life line
>
>
>> JoAnn wrote:
>>
>> "I am using weed eater for my life line."
>>
>> I've done a lot of gardening but haven't anything to eat my weeds! In
>> other
>> words, what is this weed eater line?
>>
>> Cathy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of artist
>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:34 PM
>> To: List for blind crafters and artists
>> 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'"
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:04 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] easy sock pattern?
>>
>>
>>> 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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