[Nfb-krafters-korner] A little about myself

[Sharon Hooley]

Hi everyone,

i’ve recently re-subscribed to this list, and just thought I’d share some things about myself.

I live in Nampa Idaho, not very far from the capitol, Boise.  i live in what’s called a certified Family Home.  This type of home is for clients who need extra support, which for me is more than deafblindness.  If I ever decide to live by myself, I would like a simple tiny house on wheels so that I can park near family members from different areas of the country alternately.

I enjoy crafting with plastic canvas.  What I like about it is that we can build all kinds of things of our creation.  Also, correcting mistakes is fairly easy.  I think of doing other projects with yarn I have for knitting and crocheting, but I want to get rid of a lot of my canvas scraps first.  My problem is that I have the wrong kind of patience when it comes to those other yarn work, meaning that I’m willing, to a point, to start something, then rip it out when I see a mistake, start over, rip out, etc.  There is one material I think of crocheting, plastic grocery bags.  that can be a free medium to work with.  Also, it would be nice to be able to make padded wire hangers, that is two hangers bound together.  When my mom passed on, I took her featherweight sewing machine, so I’d like to make some things with scrap material.  I am interested in clay, learning to create with duct tape and other useful things made from recycled plastic, metal or wood.

I guess you could say that doing a   little programming and playing around with sound, using such things as tape recorders and digital technology is crafting too.

I’m thinking of becoming a member, but I feel that I might have some difficulty following written or spoken instructions.  I’ll give you an example.  My sister was teaching me how to make a Korean star, which is a Christmas tree decoration made with two pieces of square-shaped cardboard, straight pins and string.  After binding the two squares catty corner,  to each other and face-to-face, you put  the pins in at each point the squares make.  Now, I don’t remember the exact words she used, but it’s apparently important to pick the best way to describe instructions.  Well, i pushed each pin down through the tips so that they stuck out on the other side.  then she showed me what I did wrong and guided  me through  the right procedure, to push the pin THROUGH the tip so that most of it  is sandwiched between the two layers that make up the cardboard.  They I could use the heads to wrap the string around each point, sort of like a God’s Eye.

Looking forward…