[Nfb-krafters-korner] Fwd: Braille on blanket

Sat Jan 4 17:32:44 UTC 2014

Is popcorn stitch the same as the cluster stitch where you do a ton of yarn overs in the same stitch and pull through them all?

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> From: Blindhands at aol.com
> Date: January 4, 2014 at 9:18:35 AM PST
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket
> Reply-To: List for blind crafters and artists <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> 
> Ohhhhhh now that is much clearer.  I can picture it more now using a  
> popcorn crocheted stitch.  Did you knit this blanket on your knitting  machine?
> 
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
> 
> 
> In a message dated 1/4/2014 12:16:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> b.butterfly at comcast.net writes:
> 
> Beeding  as crocheted, is it popcorn stitch? My tiny brain can't quite think
> if that  is the name of the stitch or not. But at least now I see the
> confusion in  my post, sorry. 
> 
> Becky and her head full of fuzz 
> -----Original  Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner  [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of  Blindhands at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 8:50 AM
> To:  nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille  on blanket
> 
> Do you mean beading as in actual beads?
> 
> Joyce   Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)  
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
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> 
> In a message dated 1/3/2014  9:39:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> b.butterfly at comcast.net  writes:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -----Original  Message-----
> 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
> To: List  for blind  crafters and artists
> 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
>> 
>> 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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