[Nfb-krafters-korner] Hexagon and Square hot pad looms

Mon Mar 21 00:55:43 UTC 2016

I know exactly what you mean.

On 3/20/16, Joyce Kane via Nfb-krafters-korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Well if I could make some of that green money doing these "menial"
> Labor jobs, it would help me pay for my crafting supplies!
>
> Joyce
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> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 7:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hexagon and Square hot pad looms
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> I remember seeing one of those looms at a school for the blind back in the
> 70s.  Blind people used to work in sheltered workshops and do many things
> like this and then it became unacceptable to do this type of "menial"
> labor.  I am thrilled to see all of this coming back as crafts.
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner <
> nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> This is not the pot holders made with the loops.  I made those as a
>> child.
>> This one I am talking about is made with yarn.  The yarn is wrapped
>> around the loom, using the loom as a frame.  After several layers of
>> the yarn has been wrapped on the loom there is a windowpane effect.
>> Then a piece of yarn is used to tie each intersection of the
>> windowpanes in order to secure it.
>>
>> When you take the hot pad off the loom it has a square of squares with
>> a sort of scalloped edge around the outside of the grid.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dixie
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>> Behalf Of Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E] via Nfb-krafters-korner
>> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 10:07 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hexagon and Square hot pad looms
>>
>> Dixey;
>>
>> Are they actually made of yarn or they streachy loops?  Joyce did a
>> class on the pot holder loom, where you use the streachy loops.  Kids
>> used to make them, all the time!.
>>
>> Terry P.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner
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>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:52 AM
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>> Cc: Dixie
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Hexagon and Square hot pad looms
>>
>> Does anyone know how to make the hexagon placemats and square hot pads
>> on the looms?
>>
>> I have some I picked up years ago at a church fair and would love to
>> make some new ones.
>>
>> They are layers of different colors of yarn in a grid and there are
>> loops around the outside edge.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dixie
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