[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hello there..

[Barb Roland]

Hello Deasy and welcome to the group, I'm Barb, 53 also have RP and still 
have some usable vision. I was not doing any crafts before loosing what 
vision I have and joining this group has taught me I can do anything I want. 
Actually loosing my vision has allowed me to expand my horizons. Thus far I 
have learned to loom knit, do some beading and plastic canvas, little bit of 
clay work, I can now even crochet a chain. I also garden, have made some 
stepping stones and even made some concrete cannon balls for hubby's cannon, 
lol.
Main thing is to keep an open mind and be open to learning new things, 
blindness does not need to stop us from doing things we want to do.
Barb in Missouri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deasy Junaedi" <deasy.junaedi at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 1:14 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hello there..


> Hello everybody..
> My name is Deasy and I am a new member.
> I am 35 years old, female, low  vision of 5% sight remaining because
> of retinitis pigmentosa.
> I lived in Indonesia. My parents are from etnic chinese who born and
> live in Indonesia.
> But I cannot speak chinese.
> When my sight is still ok, i never do any handycraft, though I really
> love handmade.But now, since my sight worsen, I really interested and
> want to learn any handycraft.
> I really excited when I found out this mailing list.
> Perhaps any of you are willing too give me any instruction and teach
> me how to start knitting, or any other handycraft for the newly blind?
> Looking forward to hearing from u soon..
>
> PS : I wonder is anybody who join this mailing list is already able or
> familiar with the handycraft before got blind or not? I would love to
> hear your story please..:)
>
> cheers,
> Deasy
>
>
>
>
> On 19/07/2012, Cathy <flowersandherbs at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Terry,
>>
>> There are patterns galore on the net. For my first try I simply used a
>> 24-peg round loom and knitting with two strands of Lilly cotton yarn in 
>> WW
>> weight,  I true knit row 1 and purled row 2 and continued till the cloth
>> was
>> square. I'm still working on it actually. Next cloth I will try a pattern 
>> a
>> bit more complex that a friend sent me. Tanya has many loom knit 
>> dishcloth
>> patterns and I am sure she would be happy to share them with you.
>> You might want to Sign up for the Xmas dishcloth class Cindy is offering. 
>> I
>> have. It looks interesting.
>>
>> Cathy
>>
>>
>>
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