[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

Sat Jan 4 04:41:07 UTC 2014

Becky,

The blanket sounds wonderful.  Thanks for sharing.

Annette

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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 9:39 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

The Blanket looks like a picture frame in a picture frame. The inner picture
frame is twenty two inches by twenty two inches. The name is along the
bottom. Since grandma doesn't want any shapes along the empty top. I thought
I would make a removable large boe, but I might change my mind. My vision
for now is as the baby is held the boe would drape over the arm just a bit.
Anyway sounds cute in my wild imagination. 

So think of skalupped edging. Then four inches of plane frame going around
the inside edge. Then a beeded frame, like those old fashion picture frames.
About five inches from the inside beeding is her name in Braille going
across.

Oh the blanket is crocheted.No it is not a granny square. It is crocheted
across adding the beeding and the Braille. 

This is the second blanket I did the picture frame in a picture frame. I
just love the look. I also did a couple of blankets that look like French
doors.

Becky and the boss with all the branes, just ask him, toothy grin. Love Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Annette Carr
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 5:16 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

Becky,

Good for you for taking on this challenge.  What portion of the blanket is
used in this case to spell out the child's name?  For example, is it a
rectangle of 3 inches by 14 inches?  Is it in the corner along one edge,
centered along one edge, centered in the middle or maybe the blanket is made
up of squares with 1 letter in each square?

Annette

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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Henrietta Brewer
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 7:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

Here comes a big hug and pat on the back. You are quite the artist. We are
all proud of your work.
Henrietta
On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Blindhands at aol.com wrote:

> You need to add to the list of things you do under your name in this 
> email in BOLD  letters:
> Originalss
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> Joyce  Kane
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> 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
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