[Nfb-krafters-korner] comments on survey matter
blindhands at aol.com
blindhands at aol.com
Wed Feb 17 00:15:16 UTC 2016
I have paid for classes to learn all types of crafting, sewing, quilting,
etc classes as I wanted to learn and I feel that what I have learned whether
I used it for my own knowledge and know how or for learning a basic and
going out and expanding and creating something unique and then promoteing my
items and going out and selling them. I traveled all over taking classes
when I could drive. Even after I went blind and wanted to learn more about
antique sock machines, I was bold enough to hitch a ride from this person up
to a Seminar in New Hampshire and I raised a few eye brows as this person's
name was George and a ride was offered to me and I did kinda had a sigh of
reliev when I got the phone call the night before she would be driving thru
CT from VA and I did find out she was a woman. I brought my Seeing Eye dog
and met a lot of folks with their sock machines and they took a look at the
one I had gotten and we all got it to work, too. John definitely thought I
was a bit looney going all the way to NH and staying over night 2 days to
learn not only if my sock machine worked, but to learn how to make it work.
So it is worth a lot to me to share crafting skills and you can't put a
dollar sign on what you learn and what you do with that knowledge. If you
take classes here with the only thought of if I can make it and sell it for
a profit. You are missing an awful lot.
Many of the classes here that I have taught are from classes I took going
back a long time or are craft skills I have researched and learned how to do
it as a blind person and basically challenged myself to learn something new
and then teach it to you. I had never done baskets before, I never did loom
knitting or beading, soap, candles, body lotion, cutting out quilts with an
Accuquilt, hand quilting teaching myself how to sew on a machine without
sight and in the last 19 years purchased 3 new sewing machines and figured
out how to use them
I worry if you all keep on taking and not giving back here Krafters Korner
might not carry on and be a place to share and encourage and show other
blind folks how to...
Joyce
Aaaaaaaa
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