[Nfb-krafters-korner] NO BRAILLE?

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
You can buy iron-on letters already cut out in different styles. The t-shirt companies who put what you want on t-shirts use them. I don't know where they get them though. They also have iron-on transfers. Their machine gets really hot. I don't know about beading on clothing. Sewing each one on would certainly be tedious but that's probably what they used to do. Theymight have a machine that does it now. They sell quite a few of those kinds of tops on QVC. Maybe you could contact the sellers of those tops and ask how it is done. 

Thanks,
Lauren



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Blessings in Jesus’ name:
Psalm 34:1-2 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
Advice from my cats:”meow when you feel like it.” 


Blessings in Jesus’ name:
Psalm 34:1-2 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 
Advice from my cats:”meow when you feel like it.” 



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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] NO BRAILLE?

Wow, how sad is it that no one has transcribed any beading patterns into Braille! Nice transcription job for someone. Has anyone ever gotten crochet patterns from Marjorie Arnott? I haven’t, but wonder if she would expand her services in the beading direction.

As to different ways of doing beading for shirts—because I want to work as independently as possible (like most here, having not a lot of human assistants available at the drop of a hat), and don’t cut straight, I would probably not be one to do the cut-off strips idea. However, I do like the template pinned to a piece of material and attaching beads in the preferred shape. I have my work cut out for me (yeah, I know: boo, hiss, “cut out”...), in that, my vision for a tee-shirt is the old quote from “The Little Prince”: “What is essential is seen with the heart,” which I would dearly love to festoon on a shirt for an aunt’s birthday. She once embroidered one for me that said, “Dreams come true for those who se with their hearts”, (heart not being a word, but a little embroidered heart). So, this could be a “back atcha” moment, if I can figure out how to do it. I can’t imagine cutting out every little letter, though, and have a pretty good command of raised print, so maybe could forego the letter-cutouts part of the project; the trick will be placing the beads so that they actually land to form the letters! I am thinking seed beads for that project.

Looks like I’ll be starting another Word file, this time for sources of patterns. Still looking for the one involving a shell stitch—the hat/scarf combo; looking for patterns is always a lot more challenging than I expect! Have ben experimenting with different ideas, to no avail—either the work ends up puffing up in places (because there isn’t enough space between shell and following stitch), or it ends up way-more=open than I want it to be. If anyone even has some ideas of “principles of working in shell stitch”, run them by me, and I can at least continue experimenting. Failing the shell stitch idea, I could opt for some other pretty pattern, if I get too close to Christmas for comfort!


Sandra
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
(Les Miserables--the musical)
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