[Nfb-krafters-korner] please stick to your subject lines in messages was Re: Braille on blanket

Debra hernstrom dhh at inavia.net
Sat Jan 4 21:15:55 UTC 2014 


On 1/4/2014 12:29 PM, Becky Frankeberger wrote:
> Is her name Polly, from Ohio? If so, she is amazing. I lost her phone number
> and would love to get back in touch. She might remember me as Becky from
> Washington State.
>
> Becky and Jake with his beautiful head on my lap. Sometimes a boy dog just
> needs dat goily touch.
>
> -----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 9:26 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket
>
> I can't remember what type of knitting machine was the name of it, but
> someone I met online had the computerized knitting machine that she could do
> the  name and whatever you wanted written on it besides a picture done in
> color.
>
> Becky  help me out with the name of this machine?  It was a  double bed
> machine and I don't think you could use heavy weight yarn on  it.  They
> don't make the knitting machines anymore and she had a motor  hooked up to
> it.  I have a couple of solid color throw blankets that I  purchased from
> her.  One on my bed now for those cold nights when you need  an extra
> blanket.She lived out in the mid west and I met her on the sock machine
> list.
>
> 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
>>
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