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

[Henry Osborne]

Yes, me too on the Cast On methods.
henry

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From: Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner
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Oh it sounds like it was just wonderful!

I would love to hear more about those cast-on variations.



Dixie
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Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 11:29 PM
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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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