[Nfb-krafters-korner] A little about myself

[blindhands at aol.com]

Sharon,

I missed the deafness in your message.

If you are totally deaf and can not use a telephone, do you use a Braille display on your computer? 

The email classes might be what you need for classes and we tend to have more email classes then telephone classes this last year.

I am sorry that you caught us the end of the year and we are winding down and the holidays are not that far off.

We will have classes up to the first week of December and start back after the first of the year.

Joyce

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Amy Herstein via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 8:42 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Amy Herstein <maria830 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] A little about myself

Hi.

No worries, I love having instructions explicitly described to me, too, whether they are in a book or being verbally explained to me by a teacher.

Amy

On 10/26/17, Sharon Hooley via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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…
>
>
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