[Nfb-krafters-korner] Blind spinners

Sat Mar 30 19:11:53 UTC 2013

Well, I can tell you that I am totally blind. No light perception. And I learned to spin the yarn after losing my sight.

Dixie
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On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:16 AM, sunshine <sunshine817 at cox.net> wrote:

> Dixie, does a person need to have partial vision to spin! I have a friend who is totally blind and tried to learn to spin and was disappointed because she couldn't grasp the instructions. She isn't sure if it is that she is totally blind or that perhaps the instructor had a difficult time teaching the spinning. So, if you or anyone knows of someone who is spinning and totally blind, could you advise!
> 
> I'm not arguing with anyone; I'm just a messenger that I was instructed by three teachers not to pull from the middle of the ske*. I'm not a professional knitter like many of you, but I can tell you that I'm tolt that my finished products look the same as anyone else's. Smiles! One person was very strict with her teaching and there couldn't be any mistakes in the finished product! It was tough learning, believe me, but I learned a lot about correcting mistakes, tearing back several rows and picking up the stitches foring row as opposed to having to knit them on.
> 
> I'll try publing from the middle, but when I did that (and was corrected for it) my yarn did become very tangled and it took a while to untangle it! Smiles! Maybe there are those who feel it's a matter of preference! Again, I don't know as much as most of you do, and probably never will, and I wasn't saying anyone was incorrect, but rather that it's what I was taught by fully sighted individuals.
> 
> Hugs
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dixie <cobaltblueheron at gmail.com>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:35 am
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> 
>> 
>> 
>> As a spinner, I can say that this makes perfect sense.  When I spin yarn,
>> there are many, many, fibers that are spun together to make one strand.  The
>> ends of each of those individual fibers will most certainly lay better if
>> one knits with the yarn going with the grain than against the grain.
>> Against the grain would encourage more splintering of the fiber, causing a
>> more worn look to the finished product.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dixie
>> March 30 ~ John 3:30
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Paulette Vickery
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:14 PM
>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>> 
>> The main reason you should wind yarn balls from the outside of the skein
>> toward the inside is that pull skeins are would at the factory to be pulled
>> and used from the middle out. When yarn is made, especially with yarn made
>> from natural fibers, the  grain, so to speak, of the yarn is all going in
>> the same direction. You need to use the yarn with the grain going away from
>> the needle or hook. That way, it will feel better, work better as you make
>> the project and look better. Pull skeins are made so that the yarn on the
>> outside of the skein is going in the right direct for winding. The people
>> who wound the pull skein assumed that you would use from the center out so
>> they made sure to wind the yarn with the grain going in that direction.
>> 
>> Paulette
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of sunshine
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:42 AM
>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>> 
>> Hi, Becky!
>> 
>> I from found that it's best to roll the yarn into balls as in so doing if
>> there are tangles, they can be gotten more easily! I also find that it's
>> best to take the yarn from the end of the skein as opposed to taking from
>> the middle. From the middle, the yarn because knotted easily. Also, I've
>> discovered that some of the yarn just isn't spun as well. Most knots and
>> beoops can be removed easily! Actually, I use the point of a stylus and thus
>> far I have been successful in removing even the smallest knots! Smiles! In
>> any case, knock on wood, my yarn products have not been tangled as of late!
>> Just because I said that, it'll happen! Smiles!
>> 
>> Hugs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:01 pm
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How about tips to help skeins of yarn not be so grumpy. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have had large pounders, to small few ouncers, act grumpy, tangle, 
>>> knot etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If a knot comes out the first thing I do is shake it.  The yarn before 
>>> the knot and after the knot I shake and it will usually untangle 
>>> itself. If it doesn't there wil be a little loop near the top of the 
>>> knot near where you are pulling the yarn out to make your item. Just 
>>> gently work the yarn with your fingers and it will untangle. Sometime 
>>> near that top loop is a peace of yarn wrapped around the knot. Just 
>>> unloosen that loop and the tangle former knot will come out.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have heard that some people kind of pull the skein before using it 
>>> to loosen, I assume the fibers. I have not tried this.  .
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There is always pulling the yarn from the outside of a skein.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> There is always roling the yarn in a ball.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am working from a pounder of baby yarn from the middle.So far no 
>>> tangles, just one knot joining yarn done in the factory.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Any more ideas how to deal with yarn tangles?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Warm smiles,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Becky and Jake
>>> 
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