[Nfb-krafters-korner] loom knitting

[Lillie Pennington]

Thank you Cindy and Minh. These are amazing descriptions.

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> On Jan 30, 2014, at 6:15 PM, "Zimmer, Cindy" <cindy.zimmer at nebraska.gov> wrote:
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> Okay, here we go.  I will give this a shot.  Here are two different ways to look at it.  See if one of them work for you.
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> Lillie, can I assume that you know Braille?  If so, then let's think of the Braille Cell.  In a figure 8 it would be like going from the dot 1 down to the dot 2, over to the dot 5, down to the dot 6, over to the dot 3, back to the dot 5 then up to the dot 4 and over to the dot 1.  What you have to remember is you are curving your lines that you are drawling.  At the middle of the figure 8 the lines cross over each other between the Braille dots 2 and 5.
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> Have you ever put the body of a snowman together.  I would be like two balls of snow sitting on top of one another.  If you traced your finger around the outsides of the snowman starting on the upper left side of the top snowball, come to where the top ball and bottom ball meet.  Take your finger and bring it over to the  bottom right side of the lower ball.  Follow that ball down to the ground, then continue to follow the ball over to the left side and back up to the center where the two ball meet again.  Cross over the center and up to the right side of the upper ball.  Follow that ball up and go around to the left.  That is where you started.  You have completed a figure 8.
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> Good Luck!
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> Cindy Z.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:27 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] loom knitting
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> I truly feel questions like this should be asked and answered on the  list. 
> This is how our teachers learn to teach each one of you with the  words to explain what our hands are doing.
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> If we don't share this information with each other we won't be able to help  each other learn.
> 
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com   
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> In a message dated 1/29/2014 11:55:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, melissatucker4 at att.net writes:
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> I'm  going to ask a question that may sound stupid.  However, I've never seen  printed material before.  Can someone describe the figure 8 that is mentioned in the patterns for long looms?  I was born totally blind and  was never taught handwriting properly in school  If this is too much  traffic for the list, I understand.  anyone is welcome to write me off  list.
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>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:19 PM, Lillie Pennington
> <lilliepennington at fuse.net> wrote:
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>> Can you send me the  same info? I have wanted to try something on the
> long loom but am not sure  what to do or exactly what I can do.
>> 
>> Sent from my  iPhone