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

[Liz]

Hello Ramona, 

That sounds like a wonderful trip!
The Colombian part was especially fascinating. Wow!
It sounds like the knitting really was fun.

Liz
On Nov 21, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Theresa Taylor via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
>  What a beautiful wonderful trip… I know it is last-minute… But there is an opening tonight… Otherwise email me with a date that works for you… Starting January…
> Blessings
> Teresa
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Nov 21, 2016, at 12:19 AM, Annely Rose via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> 
>> 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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>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] I'm home!
>> 
>> 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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