[Nfb-krafters-korner] flag directions

[Ramona Walhof]

small pony beads,though?  I don't know if they come in designated sizes, but
these were all the same size and maybe three to the inch?  
Ramona

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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 7:34 PM
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Cc: Carol Osmar <osmarc at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] flag directions

Good job Ramona. I didn't write down the pattern but this sounds correct.
The beads that were used were pony beads.

Carol

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> On Aug 18, 2016, at 7:29 PM, Ramona Walhof via Nfb-krafters-korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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