[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

[Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC]

So how did you do it?


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> On Jan 3, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
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> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
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> In a message dated 1/3/2014 12:35:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> b.butterfly at comcast.net writes:
> 
> 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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