[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille on blanket

[Maria and Joe Chapman]

oh wow that sounds so interesting.  very clever.
Maria and Joe Chapman
bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com



On 4 Jan 2014, at 1:39 pm, Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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