[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Hi Everyone, What Time is the Chat Tonight?

[Melinda Koons]

Hi Everyone,
What time is the chat tonight?
Just wondering.
I want to make sure that I'm there on time.
Blessings,
Melinda


On 1/16/2023 6:51 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner wrote:
> I think, if you did this, you would need 2 balls of your border color.  You
> would knit the border in color A up to the picture, change to color B for
> the picture, then change back to A to finish the border on the other side of
> the picture.  You would twist the 2 colors together at the back each time
> you changed color, to prevent there being a hole.  You would only have a
> strand where you added B and where you ended B, which would be ends you'd
> have to weave in.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf
> Of Sarah Calhoun via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 2:47 PM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists' <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Sarah Calhoun <sc-tico at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> Hi Bernice,
> 
> You mentioned you use a different color when knitting the actual picture of
> the square. When it is time to knit making the shape, is this where you
> change to the second color? Does this leave strands of yarn in the back of
> the square? I would like to try knitting a square using a dominat color for
> the design. I have knitted several squares from Designs by Emily and enjoy
> them.
> 
> Take care,
> Sarah Calhoun
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf
> Of Tracy Carcione via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 12:26 PM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists' <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> Neat!
> I've made 2 picture blankets so far.  I really like them.  On the first, for
> myself, I knit in 2 or 3 braille letters into the border of the picture,
> enough so I could remember what the picture was, if it wasn't clear.  I just
> purled a stitch instead of knitting.  I wrote con sign ch sign for the conch
> shell, and cl for the clam--like that.
> On the other, for my sister, I stacked up the finished squares and put a bit
> of braille card on top of each, saying what it was.  I also wrote down the
> colors of each, so I could arrange them when all the squares were done.
> 
> I hope you will tell us your colors and squares when you're done.
> Tracy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFB-Krafters-Korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Bernice Bird via NFB-Krafters-Korner
> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 11:59 AM
> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
> Cc: Bernice Bird
> Subject: [NFB-Krafters-Korner] nautical afghan
> 
> My senior brain is having trouble remembering who taught the nautical
> afghan. I was thinking it was Sarah C, but now I think it was Yolanda. I was
> wondering if there was a place to view pictures of the finished squares,
> since my friend was having a little trouble identifying some of the
> pictures. If I were to do an afghan like this again, I would make the
> background one color and the picture a second color. My friend says I have 2
> palm trees.
> 
> I also found that the medium blue yarn I used must have been a bit thinner,
> even though it said 4 ply, and had the same number. I am going to have to
> pick up stitches on the 4 edges and make it a little bigger. I so hate, like
> most people to pull anything out that I have finished.
> 
> I always ask Alexa what color things are supposed to be, and she says that a
> clam can be almost any color. Mine will be either purple or orange.
> 
> Bernice
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