[Nfb-krafters-korner] Want To Know Wednesday 4/11/18

[Ramona Walhof]

The internet haunts me, so I go to the old-fashioned store.  I take a
reader.  It helps to use the same reader repeatedly so you can train that
person.  We look at the pattern books to find patterns for sewing garments,
and then we go to the drawers and find the pattern.  Some stores will
provide a person to help with this, but many think they don't have time.  I
would be glad to go at slow times, but some don't want my business bad
enough.  

When I get a tissue paper pattern for sewing, I have somebody trim on the
cutting line to get rid of the paper around the edge.  When it is a knitting
pattern, I get it dictated.  Dictating a knitting pattern takes more
training than trimming the tissue pattern and some patience.  

Linda Hurlock of Montana will Braille knitting patterns if we send her the
book and the paper.  I have alsoi used her.  
Ramona

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Cc: Nella Foster <jellybeanfarm at gmail.com>
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Want To Know Wednesday 4/11/18

Happy Wednesday to all you crafters out there.

 

Once again it is Wednesday and it is a beautiful one here in northwest
Arkansas.

 

On Monday Cathy lead a chat on how to use the ravelry website, which many of
us found to be very helpful.  This chat got me thinking about how we blind
crafters access patterns for different crafts.  I have a couple of Brail
books that I got from Horizons for the blind with loom knit patterns and a
few patterns that other blind people have shared with me.  I have a few
basic skirt and dress patterns that other people helped me choose and cut
out.  I would like to make more clothes, but finding patterns is very
difficult.

 

So, I want to know how do the rest of you find patterns or instructions for
different crafts.

 

This information can be for any type of craft; please share your strategies
with us.

 

As always I look forward to reading and learning.

 

Nella 

 

 

 

 

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