[Nfb-krafters-korner] strange tool

[artist]

These strange tools are I believe called Russian punch.  I have use them in 
the past to make miniature punch rugs for my dollhouse.  They can be used to 
decorate purses and your felted projects as well.  Is difficult to do 
without sight so I don't do it anymore but still have my original kit 
somewhere around the house.  As said by someone else, they are used much the 
same as punch hooked rugs.  JoAn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] strange tool


> Yes, I have seen them for thread.  My mother-in-law had one like that.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
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> From: "Terrence van Ettinger" <terrencevane at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 7:30 PM
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>> Yes, that sounds like a larger version of what I was thinking of. The one 
>> I had was smaller, used a thread rather than yarn, and had thinner 
>> material, but the idea sounds the same pretty much.
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>> On Mar 6, 2012, at 5:22 PM, "Susan Roe" <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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'" 
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>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Custom-made knit throws, shawls, and more!
>>>>
>>>> Phone: 360-426-8389
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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