[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket
Zimmer, Cindy
cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov
Fri Jan 3 19:23:11 UTC 2014
Way to go Becky! Taking on challenges are always good!
Cindy
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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Becky Frankeberger
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:34 AM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket
Do you all love a challenge? Well I do, smile. So when one of my new customers asked if I could Braille the name of her new grand daughter onto a baby blanket, I said yes. Somewhere in the back of my beaner I remember seriously planning to do this, and honestly thought I had done this work before. Guess not, silly smile. She picked out the yarn and off I went planning the blanket. I decided to work up the yarn with the baby's name in Braille. Boy howdy, quite a challenging thing to do at the gym.
So I enlisted my brainy type husband. We got the length and width of the braille sells and spacing refigured out, well I did actually. I checked with my Braille teacher friend on the letters, and I was good to go.
My husband though was trying to work it out on paper numbering the spaces etc. It was a zoo as it just wouldn't click the vision I had in my beaner for him.
So I just proceeded forward. He measured the Braille bumps to make sure they were straight, and proclaimed how proud he was of me, smile.
So we have a nearly done lilac baby blanket with the name of a sweet little girl's name in Braille. Woo Hoo!
Becky Frankeberger
Butterfly Knitting
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becky at butterflyknitting.com
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