[Nfb-krafters-korner] tips for scissors

[Deidre Muccio]

	What a great idea about the scissors! Thanks for that story.
	I've graduated from using a 4 ply yarn with gigantic wooden needles
to some finer needles on a circular cable. Also the yarn is thinner.
Unfortunately I keep ripping out what I've done cause invariably something
goes wrong within a few stitches of completing a row. I'm not sure what this
relapse is all about. 
	Can't they make the tips of needles get thinner for just a tad
longer so it would be easier to catch that yarn at the tip of the needle? I
promise I'd remember to keep my tension just right and slide that stitch
onto the thicker part of the needles to maintain a nice even size. Honest, I
would. I'd say a rosary a night too. 
	I'm not giving up.
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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] tips for scissors

If you have a small pair of scissors a tip that brings mack memories for me.
 
My Gram always had a pair of small scissors with a piece of elastic thru the
handle then the elastic had a knot tied in it with a large safety pin
attached to the elastic.  Well actually the elastic was not attached it was

hanging from the safety pin so it could slide up and wdown the elastic.
Now 
she always had this pinned to her apron or dress. Gram only wore pants when
she went out in the garden.  So while sitting and doing her crocheting the
scissors were always right there and easy to find.  As I grew up and she
gave me my own scissors and made up the elastic and safety pin I wore mine
pinned to my pants pocket or my shirt and I still do that.
 
You can get up and walk around and your scissors are always within  reach.
 
You can get elastic by the yard in Jaann's or a fabric store or you can get
packages of elastic too.  It doesn't really matter the width of the elastic
as long as it isn't too wide and fits thru your handle of your scissors.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/13/2013 3:12:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
deimucc at verizon.net writes:

Thanks  Cindy. I have some already I was thinking of emptying them out and
using  them. I do need something right at my side for when I put a hook and
small  scissors down while rug hooking. It's amazing how much fumbling goes
on if  there is not a clear space right there or an apron pocket to drop
tools  into while working and having to put them down temporarily. At  least
knitting needles with yarn attached to them don't tend to escape  notice
easily.
Fro anyone who is interested the famous  Webs is right here in my town.
Their web site is yarn.com. Each Sunday  morning on WHMP FM, they air a show
called Ready Set Knit and it is hosted  by the couple who own Webs. I
love this show, and   even did  before I thought about learning to knit. 
They
feature yarn sellers, pattern  book writers, talk about new yarns just in,
close outs, all kinds of  things. I bet you can listen to the current and
old programs on their web  site. They mentioned that anyone who didn't catch
it should go back and  listen to the year's end review. 

Deidre


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