[Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome Portia

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

Portia;

Can you put your e-mail in the body of an e-mail, for me.  I want to send you something, but am having trouble reading your e-mail.  Is that an and sign?  What is around the part after happyness.  Looks like parenthesis?

Terry Powers

Terry.powers at nih.gov
 

-----Original Message-----
From: greatful_n_happiness [mailto:sober512 at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 1:59 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Welcome Portia

Hello and thank you for asking. Sorry I didn't do that earlier in my first post.

I am from Southern California, in the Los Angeles area.

I am 43. Totally blind. I learned to hand knit in highschool. We had a basic sewing class and at that time, sewing machines were not adapted for the blind.

So, a couple of my friends were taking the class and were blind as well.
They learned to make a basic ribbed scarf. I saw what each of them were doing and wanted to get involved in the class.

I started the scarf but later took it apart after the class had ended.

I was a real slow knitter but now, people watch me knit and they can't believe how I can knit and not be able to see. I knit for charities and also, to make something on the side to supplement my income.

I also learned to loom knit after a few people that are on this list talked about it. I figure on trying it myself. I started on the Knifty Knitter loom set I purchased a few months ago.

Just doing the basic Ewrap stitch on hats and scarves on the round loom.

I haven't going further on making afghans or anything that require flat loom knitting yet.

I bought my first long loom set a few weeks ago. Was frustrated with trying the figure 8 cast on. Kathy had told me about this group and the classes offered here.

I recall being in this list before but didn't have the money to signup for the membership so dropped out.

So, I signed up for the list as well as the classes.

I want to learn as much as I can. I don't have the room for a sewing machine in my little studio apt but want to learn to hand quilt or hand sew things.

I want to try my hand at basketry and beading as well.

When I am able to get all the supplies to work on that, I will signup for the classes in the future. I had done both plastic canvass and latchook in JR. High.

But, never gone back in to it.

Well, sorry my post was long. I tend to write like that and never keep it real basic and short.

Thanks again for the welcome and I look forward to meeting all of you one day in the class.

Portia, Southern California

Facebook: Portia Latieff Mason

Twitter: califknitter
Ravelry: angelpm


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