[NFB-Krafters-Korner] sculpting and woodwork

Tue Feb 2 20:26:37 UTC 2021

I took a wood working class in college. I used every machine in the shop, but I enjoyed the finishing the most. The first night of class we experimented with hand tools. My husband told me the wrong way to hold a chiseled, and it went into the webbing between my thumb and first finger. I was holding my hand and was trying to get to the lady's room without the teacher seeing my injury. Someone had a big mouth, and asked me what I did to my hand. The teacher was nervous having a blind person in his class, but we got over it and I went on to make a hand tool project and a power tool project. I still have them. 
Bernice

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I have done pottery.  It was fun.  I did it with real clay, not the baking sort, so I had to have access to a kiln.  I took it as a class with other people, and our teacher fired everything for us.  I gather it can be tricky, and pieces have to be put in the right places for everything to work well.
It was fun being part of a class, learning from our teacher and each other, and there really wasn't a difference between being blind and sighted, I think.  We all did the work with our hands, after all.  I did both hand-building and work on the wheel.

As for "manly", knitting and weaving have both been manly at times, and male knitters always get special notice, because they're rare creatures just now.
Leather, braiding, maybe macramé, woodworking, ...  but really it's about what excites and interests someone.
Tracy

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My husband and I looked at the craft class list last night previous and current. He is considering joining at least the E mail list serve. I think he would be interested in making wallets. The moccasins he didn’t want to do because “we don’t need any other crap in the house“ I told him he didn’t have to make them in his size. There’s still time. Anyhow does anybody on this list do you Clay work or woodworking? My husband really enjoys woodworking but we just don’t have the space for everything and the expense is great getting every piece of equipment needed. He’s totally blind. What else it takes up less space what is more “manly“ he could do? 

If anyone does work with Clay, do you use the baking clay or something else? Is there a small scale kit of some sort that you can learn even if it’s for kids how to use a pottery wheel? Thanks!

Ericka Nelson

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>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 9:52 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> I'm looking around for a new project, but I'm having trouble 
>> narrowing down the field.  A few gals in my knitting group are making 
>> shawls or shawlettes, and one showed me a shawlette that's a bit interesting, but I'm not sure.
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>> I went to Ravelry and put in "shawlette", and, as you would guess, 
>> there were way lots.  I'd kinda like to make one with a flower 
>> pattern, but I'm not sure how to find such, because they have 
>> specific flower names, like Crocus, Dogwood, or Sunflower.  And then 
>> there's figuring out what it's really like from a vague description.
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>> Any ideas how I can narrow things down, and find something great?
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