[Nfb-krafters-korner] comments on survey matter

[Terry Knox]

Joyce,
Cery well written and expressed. We must share, each of us to continue
passing on how we can and how to do it. If there is a cost involved we need
to address it.
Terry K

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From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 7:15 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Cc: blindhands at aol.com
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] comments on survey matter

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

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