[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

Mon Jan 6 12:45:16 UTC 2014

 Great job, Becky.  I did the alphabet on a cleanex box, with plastic canvas.   I wouldn't think it would be to hard.  Did you use 4 stitches, in a block to represent a braille dot?

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Becky Frankeberger [mailto:b.butterfly at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 12:34 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

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

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becky at butterflyknitting.com

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