[Nfb-krafters-korner] Fwd: Braille on blanket
Becky Frankeberger
b.butterfly at comcast.net
Sat Jan 4 18:34:32 UTC 2014
No, the popcorn stitch is four double crochets in the same stitch, then
whichever side you want the bump on you go behind the four posts and pull
the loop through tightening it with a chain
Boy that didn't make much sense. Look out Tunisian class, giggle.
Becky and fluffy face
-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 9:33 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Fwd: Braille on blanket
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?
Sent from my iPho
Begin forwarded message:
> 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
>
>
> 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
>> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>> Blindhands at AOL.com
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> - Ponchos
>>
>> - Afghans
>>
>> - Shawls
>>
>> - Custom Knitting
>>
>> 360-426-8389
>>
>> becky at butterflyknitting.com
>>
>>
>>
>> www.butterflyknitting.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
>> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
>> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org
>> Facebook page:
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
>> for
>> Nfb-krafters-korner:
>>
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/blin
>> d
>> hands%
>> 40aol.com
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
>> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
>> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
>> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
>> for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/gary.
>> brewer%40comcast.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/amcar
> r1%40v
> erizon.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/b.but
> terfly
> %40comcast.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org
> Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/blind
> hands%
> 40aol.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info
> for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/b.but
> terfly
> %40comcast.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org
> Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/blind
> hands%
> 40aol.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
> Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
> Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
Nfb-krafters-korner:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/lmart
> inez217%40gmail.com
_______________________________________________
Nfb-krafters-korner mailing list
Nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org
Division Website: http://www.krafterskorner.org Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/NFB-Krafters-Division/269246643109571
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
Nfb-krafters-korner:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfb-krafters-korner_nfbnet.org/b.butterfly
%40comcast.net
More information about the NFB-Krafters-Korner
mailing list