[Nfb-krafters-korner] learning to spin

sunshine sunshine817 at cox.net
Sun Mar 31 16:50:50 UTC 2013 

Hi, Deidre!

Picking up a stitch that is a few rows down wouldn't cause it to become weak! Some people, however, pick them up from rows way down and that does tend to weaken the stitch! I'm sure that all you have been knitting is beautiful! Its with time and practice that we get better. I took a couple years break from knitting because my hands were so bad and that happens with constant change of weather! I couldn't believe that the last time I purchased from Lion Brand was in 2009! That was the year I started knitting again!

Thus far, I'm not creative either like some people are! I'm sure there will be those who will always exceed what I can accomplish, but as long as I do the best I can, someone will enjoy the gifts they receive from me, I hope! Smiles!

I've always wanted to learn to latch hook. A friend asked how I'd separate the colors of yarn and I mentioned that I'd use ziplock bags and mark the colors in braille! Smiles! Latch hooking is for a time in the future. Crocheting is something someone tried to teach me, but I couldn't pick it up. Who knows! In the future, I might try that as well! Beautiful borders can be crocheted onto afghans and scarves! Smiles! 

Have a lovely visit and give yr dog a huge hug f me6

,hugs

 

----- Original Message -----
From: Deidre Muccio <deimucc at verizon.net>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 10:20 am
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] learning to spin

>
>
> Ruthie
> I'm finishing 2 scarves. One might have wound up as a hand towel, it's a
> psychedelic cotton everyone loves and it reminds me of some thin colorful
> cotton towels I brought back from Ghana many years ago. So rather than
> continue on and making a small hand towel, quite novel in color, I decided
> today, I would knit another few rows and bind off and use it as a scarf. I
> want to see how well it wears over time. I'm not convinced yet that my
> knitting is strong enough to hold up though looking at it, people say it's
> very even. Even so, even if the dropped stitches are picked up, wouldn't it
> still be a weak link in the fabric? 
> The other thing I'm knitting is made of a 50/50 Cascade yarn, part
> wool, part acrylic. It's very soft and easy to knit. That one I have split
> numerous stitches and dropped some so I worry about its structural integrity
> as well. Overall it feels pretty solid so maybe I'll be surprised about the
> finished product.
> I want to let the rug hooking take over in the next months, so I'm
> trying to wrap up this knitting before concentrating on finishing a rug
> piece on the frame then finding help to cut up a box of cotton jersey
> someone gave me to do the next rug piece. I've seen cotton jersey and nylon
> rug hooked and I love it. You can vary the effect which I like. Also the rug
> hooking is all in my hands, I don't need much help with that.
> I sure am not abandoning knitting. I do find the rug hooking puts me
> in a much different head space, one in which I am more creative in terms of
> design and variation. I can't do that with color or pattern with knitting. I
> find the knitting less bodily intensive as well (though technically harder)
> and in that way it takes less effort and is more relaxing. For the rug
> hooking I have to really give it my all in body and mind. For all you
> knitters out there, I don't doubt you also have places that open in you to
> allow for much creativity in what you are creating, I'm just not there.
> Let's see, I started knitting around Xmas time. I'd probably need an
> intensive month long knitting retreat to perhaps get there.
> Off to see the neighbors grandkids do their "Spring Egg" hunt while
> my dog will also do some kind of find.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of sunshine
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 5:40 PM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] learning to spin
> 
> Hi, Deidre!
> 
> I've been reading with a friend on skype and knitting and also practicing
> the E Rap. I : that down pat now the can't wait to learn more! Smiles! I'm
> knitting a scarf for a friend and she chose the seed stitch! She went on the
> net to see what a scarf would look like using the stitch, so that's what
> she's getting! Smiles! Much is so new to me, but I'm enjinying all the
> learning there is to be had! Smiles! Good to see you out here! What are you
> knitting now!
> 
> Hugs
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Deidre Muccio <deimucc at verizon.net>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013 10:15 am
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] learning to spin
> 
> >
> >
> > Sunshine
> > Last year Dixie told me to make sure when I was at a local fiber arts 
> > fair to have someone show me how to spin. I did, and the part I did 
> > was simply meld the fibers evenly together with my fingers. That was 
> > easy. As for the entire set up, I can't say.
> > It's gorgeous here today and I've been out for the past few hours.
> > Now that I am back in, I am going to knit. That is my pleasure, that 
> > and rug hooking.
> > I listened to Ready Set Knit this morning and each time I listen to 
> > the show, I want to go check out the spring yarns with cotton and silk 
> > and rayon in them or alpaca and silk, as well as the usual yarns. I'm 
> > thinking of calling down there and asking for a knowledgeable person 
> > to show me what I want to see. I wonder if they could spare someone to 
> > do that and would enjoy it. Web's is having a 39 anniversary sale 
> > starting this Monday, so if you are a Web's fan, check them out on-line or
> drive into town.
> > 
> > 
> > Deidre
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nfb-krafters-korner 
> > [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of sunshine
> > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 10:17 AM
> > To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
> > 
> > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ~  @-> ~ <-@  ~
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----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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