[Nfb-krafters-korner] flag directions

[Nella Foster]

Ramona, thank you I think this sounds nice.

Nella

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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 6:30 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] flag directions

I think I can remember, but my memory is so/so. Carol, please correct this
if you see errors.  

 

You buy eight two-inch gold safety pins for each flag.  Then you buy red,
white, and blue beads with holes through the middle large enough to put the
straight part of the safety pin through.  .  Sorry, I can't tell you what
size the beads must be, but hopefully Carol or Theresa can.  On four pins
you place 7 beads, beginning with red and alternating colors.  Then put one
pin through the  end that does not open.  Do three additional pins just like
this.  Then you make three pins using red, white, red, white, and three blue
beads.  All seven pins should now be suspended from the pin across the top.


 

Now you need to straighten out the top pin and slide the other seven around
the turn which is largely straightened out.  When they are all around, you
bend the top pin back so that it can be fastened.  As you look at the pin,
you should have three beads across and three blue beads up and down at the
right top of the flag.  There should be four red stripes and three white
stripes up and down with the red on top and bottom and alternating with the
white.  These pins are all hanging loose from the top pin.  The top pin can
be attached to a shirt with its fastener at the left as you wear the flag. 

After reading this over, I am wondering if we really used 7 beads on each
pin or six.  It mayh be that we could only fit six beads, so the top red
bead would be eliminated, and the white stripe in the middle would only go
on the first four pins. 

It took some people longer than others of course, but they liked the
project.  You have to sort the colors ahead of time in different containers
which should be open and flat so crafters can pick up the beads easily.  We
had anywhere between 2 and 8 people working at the same time, and we just
had to pass the bead containers back and forth.  That was one of my jobs.
Ed Osmar also handled this project, but he and Carol bought the stuff and
really worked out the final design. 

I hope my directions make sense.     

Ramona 

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