[Nfb-krafters-korner] want to know Wednesday

[Ramona Walhof]

Maria, this is first a division of the National Federation of the Blind, the largest organization of the blind in this country for advocacy and self help.  This list is email, but the Crafters Division also has a blog and a website.  Of course, you have been reading about all our classes by phone and by email.  So we are a lot of things. If you want to read about the National Federation of the Blind, some would say our parent organization, go to nfb.org. You will see that that website contains a lot of information about a  lot of parts.  At our conventions each July we have international participation. I think this year, 2017, there were fifty people from many different countries.  I don't remember how long it has been since we had somebody from Alstralia, but we have definitely had some very interesting people from there. This year there was a total of just under 2500 people who registered at the convention.   
Ramona

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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] want to know Wednesday

HI.

is this an email group or Facebook or something else?

Maria

> On 1 Sep 2017, at 1:41 am, Sandra Streeter via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> My mom just, a week and a half ago, turned me on to the Knitters Paradise forum. Everything was easily navigable (though sometimes, of course, not the items you get referred to—but that would be hard to control for), and they welcomed me with open arms; several even had relatives who are blind crafters. They welcome my input, too, and have the same “can-do” attitude I have toward my trying new things. The welcome messages must have been pouring in for like 3 days—it was wonderfully warm. I can’t provide the link at this moment, due to a quirky internet problem, but you can easily find it.
> 
> KK was my first online group—I think I joined 3-4 years ago. Before that, when I was still part of our local community center of the blind, I was in their craft group for years; then, after the craft dir. left, the group disbanded, and no new crafters came in, so they got rid of all their craft stuff; for a variety of other reasons not worth mentioning, I have since left that center, but the group was really fun, for as long as it lasted. I also used to belong to a library craft group, ‘til I got my last job and scheduling wouldn’t permit; then, when I lost that job, and tried to get back in, there wasn’t transportation. So, actual face-to-face groups have been a real mixed bag for me.
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> I never started a group, but did try to teach beginner crochet for a women’s retreat, but found it wasn’t a great fit, so usually don’t respond when teaching opps arise—let others pick up that slack.
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> Sandra
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