[Nfb-krafters-korner] I'm home!

[Annely Rose]

Count me in!!  I would love to hear about it, too.  Sounds like it was an awesome cruise.  

Annely
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On Sun, 11/20/16, Nella Foster via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] I'm home!
 To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
 Cc: "Nella Foster" <jellybeanfarm at gmail.com>
 Date: Sunday, November 20, 2016, 11:51 PM
 
 
 Ramona I
 don't know about everyone else, but I would love to hear
 about your trip.  It might be a very nice chat for these
 winter evenings.
 
 Nella
 
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 I am back from my
 dream-of-a-lifetime cruise through the Panama Canal. I
 won't report on much, but there were some very
 interesting things in crafting that I thought this group
 might like to know about. There was a meeting scheduled on
 sea days each morning for knitters and crafters, and I met
 about fifteen women, many very versatile and all using
 different techniques. Since they came from Canada, Britain,
 Australia and more, that is not surprising. I learned about
 cast on methods I had never heard of before.
 
 There was also a box-making
 class—origami of course, and the next day we decorated the
 lids to the boxes. Again, I met interesting people.
 
 Then we took a jewelry-making
 tour in Cartagena Columbia where they used emeralds directly
 from a local mine. We were instructed by students at the
 school and made earings, pendants, rings, and bracelets. Not
 polished emeralds, but very beautiful. I got a picture of
 myself operating the machine that presses bars of heated
 silver into smaller and longer bars until they are wires
 about fifteen feet long.
 
 In
 Costa Rico I found a pair of earings made of palm leaves and
 saw the tools they use for carding wool. We saw plants whose
 leaves are used for making rubs and other medicines, ate
 cactus, watched tortilla-making and on and on. And that does
 not count the day we went through the Canal. 
 If people want to hear more about the trip, I
 would be glad to do a Monday night chat.
 
 Ramona
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