[Nfb-krafters-korner] strange tool

[Susan Roe]

Becky,

It sounds like a tool I have called a punch hook.  Mine does not have the 
blue stopper on the shaft.  Does the shaft have a pointed tip below the 
hole?  My tool you thread your yarn through a hole close to the handle, down 
through the shaft and through the second handle.  I took colored burlap 
material and stretched it over a square or rectangular wooden frame and 
tacked it snug in the back.  You then took the threaded tool and punched it 
through the material and then pulled it bac out again and this left a loop 
of your yarn on the other side.  You then could make designs, make pictures 
that had a rug like quality which could also be further sculpted by trimming 
the loop ends shorter to add texture.

Once you were done, you then removed the material from the frame, added a 
backing and could make a pillow, fit a piece of that thicker stiff poster 
board and hang it on the wall or even make multiple pieces for a rug or 
larger wall hanging.  I learned to do this at the Virginia Rehab Center for 
the Blind in Richmond.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Becky Frankeberger" <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 1:45 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] strange tool


>
> You know how you collect tools, then forget what they are and what you do
> with them.
>
> I have a german made tool I remember using to make crochet material as a
> young one.  it is kind of the length of a crochet hook.  But instead of a
> hook it has an eye like a thick sewing needle.  The handle is blue. Then a
> straight one inch piece of metal, then a red plastic collar, then another
> inch of metal with the metal tear drop shaped hole where the yarn threaded
> through.   .
>
> Any idea what this is, and how do I use it.
>
> Seems to me it was bought from a tv commercial.
>
> Becky Frankeberger
> Butterfly Knitting
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