[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Introduction

[Tammy Freitag]

Gena
Welcome!I am so glad you found your way to our little corner. We do
offer a beginner Loom Knitting class.  It does have an email portion
to it if you would be interested.

I am Tammy  and offer a crochet class for beginners that also has an
email portion to it.

I have RP too and am close to your age.  Smile! I look forward to
getting to know you and hopefully, be of help to you.

Take care!


On 4/22/20, Georgina Joyce via NFB-Krafters-Korner
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I was born in Northampton a boot and shoe market town in the middle of
> England. I now live in the North West between Manchester and Liverpool. At
> the age of 11 I was taken to a residential school for partially sighted
> children and deaf children. They promised my parents that I would be taught
> braille. This was not true. At this school is what I would guess in today's
> language was for children with learning difficulties. I was looking forward
> to doing the 11 plus exam in my old school and was disappointed when they
> assured me that I wouldn't be taking any exams while at this residential
> school. Instead of academic studies we did jewellery making, candle making,
> basket weaving and the most useful was touch typing. When I left school I
> made a few baskets and trays for people. It was obvious I would never be
> able to make a living from it as the raw materials were expensive. These
> baskets and trays were either willow or a plastic cane.
>
> It wasn't until my 30's when I took opportunities to study. I have achieved
> a lot having studied computing and psychology. I have struggled to find
> gainful employment and undertake voluntary work. I have RP and now I am 60 I
> have no useful sight. As RP means loosing sight slowly it is easy to adapt.
> More frightening is the loss of high frequency hearing. I am currently
> adapting to using hearing aids.
>
> I have always tried to play it safe and I am fed up with it. Decorating my
> home and dressing plainly just to be safe is not being true to myself. I did
> do some knitting some years ago but needed a lot of support in correcting my
> dropped stitches. I like wearing hair clips and pieces and think it would be
> easy to make flowers to wear in my hair. I could jazz up some of my plain
> clothes etc. with other decorations.
>
> I made some acoustic panels a few years ago to create a nice audio recording
> environment. I have used recycled decorating cloths and removal blankets to
> face them. As these materials are a variable shade of grey. I thought if I
> attach upholstery sparkly buttons I could create the affect of the night
> sky. Then I found that it is easy to buy cloth cut shapes to make flowers so
> I am exploring these possibilities too. Which has brought me to hear. I was
> discussing these panel designs on the woodworkers for the blind email list
> and I was pointed to this list.
>
> I have purchased some chunky yarn and a knitting loom set. Which I think
> will arrive tomorrow. But deliveries are rather disrupted at the moment.
>
> I can see there are some useful books on Kindle and have purchased a couple
> on loom weaving. I have joined the U.S. Book Share service and have been
> setting up my iPhone with a braille display today in order to read books and
> will see what works well for me. I see the book of the month "Small Loom &
> freeform weaving" is available on kindle. I will start working through it
> soon.
>
> I look forward to a creative colourful future.
>
> Gena
>
> Call: M0EBP
> DMR ID: 2346259
> Loc: IO83PS
> 73
>
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Independence is yours .  Are you willing to reach for it?
Tammy