[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket
Becky Frankeberger
b.butterfly at comcast.net
Sat Jan 4 19:54:29 UTC 2014
Henrietta, you mean a lot to me. So, I am choked up with your words. Thank
you dear lady, thank you.
Becky
-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Henrietta Brewer
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 4:07 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
>
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