[Nfb-or] Nfb-or Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1

Fri Nov 4 17:12:17 UTC 2011

Hi all:
I have been trying to hand-soe the strips together. I don't have a soeing 
machine and I understand that every soeing machine might be different just 
like all other machines. Tomay, yes, you may forward my message onto your 
friend. As I've said, I want my questions to go to anyone who has good 
advice whether or not they are on the mailing lists. Thank you!
Kendra Schaber
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>   1. Questions about soeing. (Kendra Schaber)
>   2. Re: Questions about soeing. (Mike Freeman)
>   3. Re: Questions about soeing. (Tami Kinney)
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> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:33:17 -0700
> From: "Kendra Schaber" <Baltimore777 at comcast.net>
> To: <nfb-or at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [Nfb-or] Questions about soeing.
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> Hi everyone:
> I am a blind left-handed gardener who is learning how to weave recycled 
> strips of sheets to make rag rugs. I am learning how to make rag rugs to 
> sell in my own small business which once started will be found in the 
> cottige industry. I am a member of a rag rug making gild and my teacher 
> has not worked with a blind person before. I should point out that I am 
> the only blind person in my gild. Since I am a beginner, I am still 
> working out the finer details in weeving the strips together on a 
> hand-made loom. I have to soe the strips of recycled sheets together in 
> order to keep the rug smooth. I have tried to use nots to put the strips 
> together but had to spend three or four hours after my last rug was 
> finished to get the nots out in order to make it flat so that it can go 
> into the market place. Both my teacher and I want me to be as independent 
> with my rag rug making as possable. Since I don't know any person who is 
> blind and who soes strips of favric together, I am sending this message on 
> the mailing lists for anyone who is blind and who knows to soe for advice. 
> I know as a blind person that we often use different ways than sited 
> people to do our normal daily tasks. I believe that soeing is one of those 
> tasks. If you are on the mailing lists and you happen to know a blind 
> person who knows how to soe but that person is not on the mailing list, I 
> give you permition to pass this E Mail onto them as well. To all blind 
> people who knows how to soe, how would I soe as a blind person? Are there 
> techniques that I need to know? If so, can you please tell me what they 
> are? You may either contact me on the mailing list or at my E Mail adress.
> My E Mail is:
>
> Baltimore777 at comcast.net
>
> I would really appriciate this!!!
> Kendra Schaber
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:02:09 -0700
> From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: NFB of Oregon mailing list <nfb-or at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] Questions about soeing.
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> Fifty years ago when I made a rag rug, I cut the strips myself and just 
> used a standard sewing machine to sew them together to make one long piece 
> of cloth. As I recall, there was nothing special or blindness-related 
> about the process; you just placed the pieces of cloth under the 
> seweing-machine head as you would any other pieces of cloth to be sewn and 
> stomped on the pedal and away it went!
>
> Mike Freeman
> sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Nov 3, 2011, at 10:33, "Kendra Schaber" <Baltimore777 at comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone:
>> I am a blind left-handed gardener who is learning how to weave recycled 
>> strips of sheets to make rag rugs. I am learning how to make rag rugs to 
>> sell in my own small business which once started will be found in the 
>> cottige industry. I am a member of a rag rug making gild and my teacher 
>> has not worked with a blind person before. I should point out that I am 
>> the only blind person in my gild. Since I am a beginner, I am still 
>> working out the finer details in weeving the strips together on a 
>> hand-made loom. I have to soe the strips of recycled sheets together in 
>> order to keep the rug smooth. I have tried to use nots to put the strips 
>> together but had to spend three or four hours after my last rug was 
>> finished to get the nots out in order to make it flat so that it can go 
>> into the market place. Both my teacher and I want me to be as independent 
>> with my rag rug making as possable. Since I don't know any person who is 
>> blind and who soes strips of favric together, I am sending this m
>> essage on the mailing lists for anyone who is blind and who knows to soe 
>> for advice. I know as a blind person that we often use different ways 
>> than sited people to do our normal daily tasks. I believe that soeing is 
>> one of those tasks. If you are on the mailing lists and you happen to 
>> know a blind person who knows how to soe but that person is not on the 
>> mailing list, I give you permition to pass this E Mail onto them as well. 
>> To all blind people who knows how to soe, how would I soe as a blind 
>> person? Are there techniques that I need to know? If so, can you please 
>> tell me what they are? You may either contact me on the mailing list or 
>> at my E Mail adress.
>> My E Mail is:
>>
>> Baltimore777 at comcast.net
>>
>> I would really appriciate this!!!
>> Kendra Schaber
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:37:56 -0700
> From: Tami Kinney <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
> To: NFB of Oregon mailing list <nfb-or at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] Questions about soeing.
> Message-ID: <4EB35004.6000706 at comcast.net>
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> Kendra,
>
> I am left-handed, yet hopeless at crafts due to being a total geek.
> /grin/ However, I do have a friend who is right-handed and not blind at
> all who is about as artistic and naturallly crafty as they get. She
> learned rug-making from her blind grandmother... She lives out in the
> hinterlands but has learned from childhood how to communicate with a
> blind person about all sorts of visual stuff as if that is perfectly
> natural. Needless to say, I adored every second I spent with her and
> with her daughter, who was as naturally gifted at that sort of thing as
> her mother. /grin/
>
> Would you mind if I forwarded your message to her to ask if she might be
> able to offer some teaching and assistance. Even though she is way the
> heck out there, her skill at verbal description is truly extraordinary.
> /smile/ In fact, I spent one really great evening with her and her
> daughter watching a movie -- they took turns reading subtitles in a few
> of the scenes as if this wer just something they did -- while the two of
> them selected rags and colors and lengths for the rug they were starting
> together for their winter project. Too fun. My friend informed me at one
> point that she learned to do this craft, which she was now teaching her
> daughter in this project, from her grandmother, the one who was blind
> from RP long before my friend was born. "So," my friend added, looking
> up from her length of rag in mock sternness "the bar is pretty high for
> you, young lady!." /lol/ No low expectations there!
>
> Good luck! That sounds like a really fun and potentially rewarding
> business. Love it!
>
> Tami
>
> On 11/03/2011 10:33 AM, Kendra Schaber wrote:
>> Hi everyone:
>> I am a blind left-handed gardener who is learning how to weave recycled 
>> strips of sheets to make rag rugs. I am learning how to make rag rugs to 
>> sell in my own small business which once started will be found in the 
>> cottige industry. I am a member of a rag rug making gild and my teacher 
>> has not worked with a blind person before
> . I should point out that I am the only blind person in my gild. Since I
> am a beginner, I am still working out the finer details in weeving the
> strips together on a hand-made loom. I have to soe the strips of
> recycled sheets together in order to keep the rug smooth. I have tried
> to use nots to put the strips together but had to spend three or four
> hours after my last rug was finished to get the nots out in order to
> make it flat so that it can go into the market place. Both my teacher
> and I want me to be as independent with my rag rug making as possable.
> Since I don't know any person who is blind and who soes strips of favric
> together, I am sending this message on the mailing lists for anyone who
> is blind and who knows to soe for advice. I know as a blind person that
> we often use different ways than sited people to do our normal daily
> tasks. I believe that soeing is one of those tasks. If you are on the
> mailing lists and you happen to know a blind person who knows how to soe
> but that person is not on the mailing list, I give you permition to pass
> this E Mail onto them as well. To all blind people who knows how to soe,
> how would I soe as a blind person? Are there techniques that I need to
> know? If so, can you please tell me what they are? You may either
> contact me on the mailing list or at my E Mail adress.
>> My E Mail is:
>>
>> Baltimore777 at comcast.net
>>
>> I would really appriciate this!!!
>> Kendra Schaber
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