[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: FW: pattern help please/ Lisa

Fri Sep 5 10:53:21 UTC 2014

I think it is the over cast stitch.

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lisamaria Martinez [mailto:lmartinez217 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 4:58 PM
To: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]; List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: pattern help please/ Lisa

Portia, here's how I sew panels together.

Like Terry P I line up the pieces so the rows match and I put safety pins every 10 rows or so. It's important to have panels that have equal rows, but like Terry said, if you have to double up a row because you miscounted, no one will notice.

When everything is matching, I hold up the panels so that one panel is facing me and the other panel is behind it. from now on I'll refer to front or back panels.

starting on the right, but you can start on the left obviously, I take a long length of yarn and thread a tapestry needle through. I enter the needle into the first stitch from the front panel to the back, and then I come over the top and enter through the front again but this time into the next stitch. I make sure to keep my tension equal throughout. You want to be loose, but not too loose.

when you complete the entire edge, you can lay the blanket flat and you can't really tell that there are two panels.

I don't know if this method has a name, but it is what made sense to me when I had to sew two pieces together.

You can slip stitch or even single crochet the edges together but it will make a bump.

Hope this helps.

LM

On 9/4/14, Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> One of our shuddle bus drivers bought a hat and bootie set from me, 
> last year and asked me to make a matching, baby blanket!  I took on the chalange.
>  I had to do it, I guessed, on the loom, since the rest of the set was 
> done on the loom. I think I got the idea of 2 strips, from Henry's afcan  class.
>
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barb Roland [mailto:barbwire59 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 4:02 PM
> To: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]; Krafters Korner Korner
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] pattern help please/ Lisa
>
> What a great idea Terry, I had not thought of that.
> Barb
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] via 
> Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 3:19 PM
>> To: 'knitangelpm'
>> Subject: RE: [Nfb-krafters-korner] pattern help please/ Lisa
>>
>> I put safty pins every 10 stitches and Did an over cast, lining up 
>> one loop from strip one and one loop from strip 2.  Make sure you 
>> make your strips the same length or you will have trouble, like I 
>> did.  Pin the whole blanket together, before starting to sew it 
>> together.  You might find every 5 stitches, easier.  When starting, I went over my tail for a
>> few stitches, 5 or more.   Put both cast on edges togetherWhen lining up
>> your stitches.  You want your edges to match.
>> Hope this helps.  I have done it only once and had to double up on 
>> some of my stitches, because my count was off.  Since my weave on the 
>> loom was tighter on one, for some crazy reason, the doubling up, was 
>> hardly noticeable, unless you really looked for it.  Only I knew it existed!!!
>>
>> Terry P.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: knitangelpm [mailto:knitangelpm at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 2:39 PM
>> To: Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]; 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>> Subject: RE: [Nfb-krafters-korner] pattern help please/ Lisa
>>
>> speaking of no right or wrong way?
>> how do I go about sewing the strips together?
>>
>>
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