[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

[Becky Frankeberger]

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
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> 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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