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Off Topic getting Patterns in braille!!
I use a single chain stitch between dc3 clusters on straight edges, and 3
chains on the corners. I've heard other variations from others in this group (rcty). David On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Karen C - California wrote: Which brings us back to your problem with crocheting ... the same one a lot of us had when we were starting out and finally got it right after a lot of practice. You're getting a decreasing triangle because you're forgetting to put a stitch into your turning chain of the row before. You can figure out where you're going wrong by making a very narrow practice piece with a number of stitches you can easily count (five or six is good). On each row, count the stitches you're making, and you'll quickly figure out which stitches should get a stitch in them to keep the stitch count the same from row to row. As for granny squares, just keep telling yourself that a sighted person can do them with the lights out, and your fingers see better than mine do, so you can do it, too. |
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Fist of all, what is tating? Hope I spelled that right.. I have heard
of it but not sure of the concept of it.. Second, I uh will give it a try on the crocheting.. Just going to wait till I can have enough patience to tell myself I can do this.. You know like the little engine that could??? I have lots of hooks around. But haven't used them in quitye sometime unless I need to pickup stitches I dropped from my knitting patterns.. BTW David I checked out your webpage.. I am planning to go and signup to some of the groups you have there.. Wish there more.. I looked in google groups, but I haven't seen int he crafts section.. Have you come across any other than this usenet group?? Take care and stay cool everyone.. It is getting pretty ot here and I just got back from filling up our big water bottle at the local water store a a block down the street from me.. sigh Glad to be home and under the fan.. Portia David R. Sky wrote: I use a single chain stitch between dc3 clusters on straight edges, and 3 chains on the corners. I've heard other variations from others in this group (rcty). David On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Karen C - California wrote: Which brings us back to your problem with crocheting ... the same one a lot of us had when we were starting out and finally got it right after a lot of practice. You're getting a decreasing triangle because you're forgetting to put a stitch into your turning chain of the row before. You can figure out where you're going wrong by making a very narrow practice piece with a number of stitches you can easily count (five or six is good). On each row, count the stitches you're making, and you'll quickly figure out which stitches should get a stitch in them to keep the stitch count the same from row to row. As for granny squares, just keep telling yourself that a sighted person can do them with the lights out, and your fingers see better than mine do, so you can do it, too. |
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Off Topic getting Patterns in braille!!
angel_crafter wrote: Hi again.. I have a question.. Does anyone in here knit that is blind or is vissually impaired?? I recall that someone told me when I joined, that there is someone that is blind.. Well, I am trying to find a place that will do my patterns in braille. I sent some paterns to the Braille Institute.. They did not get my email and I have to try again to send it tomorrow.. I had hoped that someone was to be done and I could get a quote as the cost of my patterns I found on the net that are easy for me to try out.. Anyway, If anyone has any ideas as to where I can go and getting them brailled, I will gladdly appraiciate any help you can give me.. I find lots of things on several sites, but a lot of them have to be written out since there are so many steps for them.. I have a couple of tank patterns I wan to try out and make for myself to wear for the well rest o the summer.. But, who knows how long it will be before that happens.. Plus so other things I found that look easy to start before I am ready for the more advanced technique in knitting.. Thanks so much.. Portia/California Ask this group he http://community.livejournal.com/braille_talk/ They will glady help you. Pam-Doggirl3 |
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Hi Portia,
That web page is pretty new, two or three weeks at most. I asked some other blind crafters what groups there were and did quite a google search, those were the only groups I found. I don't know about other usenet groups besides rec.crafts.textiles.yarn which as I wrote on my site has mostly sighted readers and posters... you posted your question to a second group simultaneously - rec.crafts.textiles.needlework, which I hadn't known about previously. I'll do another search later when I've got time, there must be usenet groups specifically for blind people too. Did you want me to mail you a granny square? Cheers, David On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, angel_crafter wrote: BTW David I checked out your webpage.. I am planning to go and signup to some of the groups you have there.. Wish there more.. I looked in google groups, but I haven't seen int he crafts section.. Have you come across any other than this usenet group?? Take care and stay cool everyone.. It is getting pretty ot here and I just got back from filling up our big water bottle at the local water store a a block down the street from me.. sigh Glad to be home and under the fan.. Portia David R. Sky wrote: I use a single chain stitch between dc3 clusters on straight edges, and 3 chains on the corners. I've heard other variations from others in this group (rcty). David On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Karen C - California wrote: Which brings us back to your problem with crocheting ... the same one a lot of us had when we were starting out and finally got it right after a lot of practice. You're getting a decreasing triangle because you're forgetting to put a stitch into your turning chain of the row before. You can figure out where you're going wrong by making a very narrow practice piece with a number of stitches you can easily count (five or six is good). On each row, count the stitches you're making, and you'll quickly figure out which stitches should get a stitch in them to keep the stitch count the same from row to row. As for granny squares, just keep telling yourself that a sighted person can do them with the lights out, and your fingers see better than mine do, so you can do it, too. |
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angel_crafter wrote:
Fist of all, what is tating? In a single word, lace. Typically, you work with your thread wound on a shuttle, and tie knots in the end of the thread that's wrapped around your hand. There's only one stitch to learn, but there's a tricky maneuver required to do it right, and that's the part I couldn't get from the pictures in a book. -- Karen C - California Finished 7/4/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for August WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!, Farmers Market (TIAG#8) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Hi Karen
I had the same trouble getting the "flip" in tatting and found the only way to learn was to have someone show me, so I did a weekend course at a craft school in mid Wales. Very beautiful country and a very useful course taught by a lady called L:yn Morton, who has produced books of tatting patterns. She doesn't advocate the "flip" but a gentler technique. Her website is http://www.tatting.co.uk/ and I would recommend (if you can get hold of it) an open out poster called "Learn Tatting with Lacet" really cheap but very well done (or at least I found it so) Lyn also sells great tatting threads, shuttles and accessories. HTH Love & higs Christine "Karen C - California" wrote in message ... angel_crafter wrote: Fist of all, what is tating? In a single word, lace. Typically, you work with your thread wound on a shuttle, and tie knots in the end of the thread that's wrapped around your hand. There's only one stitch to learn, but there's a tricky maneuver required to do it right, and that's the part I couldn't get from the pictures in a book. -- Karen C - California Finished 7/4/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for August WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!, Farmers Market (TIAG#8) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Christine in Kent, Garden of England wrote:
Hi Karen I had the same trouble getting the "flip" in tatting The problem was, none of the books ever said "flip the stitches". My best reading of them was "knot-knot, stitch is done", and then couldn't figure out why the ring wouldn't pull closed. Then a dorm-mate's mom came to visit, and I'd heard she tatted, so I commented on my problem. Of course, neither of us had a shuttle on us at the moment, but all it took was Mrs. H asking "do you flip the stitches to the other thread?" Ummm noooooooooo. I didn't know I was supposed to. She offered to show me when they got back from lunch, but by the time they got back I already had it figured out just from her verbal explanation to flex and pop. When I teach, I use a red thread and a white thread, and first set the student to making a chain. The mnemonic is "if you see red when you're done with the stitch, you're going to 'see red' when you try to close your ring." When they show me a couple inches of all-white chain (after the inevitable candy cane stripes at the beginning), then I show them how to loop around and make a ring, which closes properly the first time because we can see immediately when they make a mistake and go over how to correct it. -- Karen C - California Finished 7/4/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for August WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!, Farmers Market (TIAG#8) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Great trick Karen, I wish someone had shown me that when I started
Love & higs Christine "Karen C - California" wrote in message ... Christine in Kent, Garden of England wrote: Hi Karen I had the same trouble getting the "flip" in tatting The problem was, none of the books ever said "flip the stitches". My best reading of them was "knot-knot, stitch is done", and then couldn't figure out why the ring wouldn't pull closed. Then a dorm-mate's mom came to visit, and I'd heard she tatted, so I commented on my problem. Of course, neither of us had a shuttle on us at the moment, but all it took was Mrs. H asking "do you flip the stitches to the other thread?" Ummm noooooooooo. I didn't know I was supposed to. She offered to show me when they got back from lunch, but by the time they got back I already had it figured out just from her verbal explanation to flex and pop. When I teach, I use a red thread and a white thread, and first set the student to making a chain. The mnemonic is "if you see red when you're done with the stitch, you're going to 'see red' when you try to close your ring." When they show me a couple inches of all-white chain (after the inevitable candy cane stripes at the beginning), then I show them how to loop around and make a ring, which closes properly the first time because we can see immediately when they make a mistake and go over how to correct it. -- Karen C - California Finished 7/4/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for August WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!, Farmers Market (TIAG#8) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Why are the subjects "patterns in Braille" and tatting marked as "OT" ?
Aaron "Karen C - California" wrote in message ... Christine in Kent, Garden of England wrote: Hi Karen I had the same trouble getting the "flip" in tatting The problem was, none of the books ever said "flip the stitches". My best reading of them was "knot-knot, stitch is done", and then couldn't figure out why the ring wouldn't pull closed. Then a dorm-mate's mom came to visit, and I'd heard she tatted, so I commented on my problem. Of course, neither of us had a shuttle on us at the moment, but all it took was Mrs. H asking "do you flip the stitches to the other thread?" Ummm noooooooooo. I didn't know I was supposed to. She offered to show me when they got back from lunch, but by the time they got back I already had it figured out just from her verbal explanation to flex and pop. When I teach, I use a red thread and a white thread, and first set the student to making a chain. The mnemonic is "if you see red when you're done with the stitch, you're going to 'see red' when you try to close your ring." When they show me a couple inches of all-white chain (after the inevitable candy cane stripes at the beginning), then I show them how to loop around and make a ring, which closes properly the first time because we can see immediately when they make a mistake and go over how to correct it. -- Karen C - California Finished 7/4/06 - needlepoint calendar canvas for August WIP: Getting all the UFOs done, July birthstone, Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!, Farmers Market (TIAG#8) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel LTR: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler, Holiday Snowglobe www.CFSfacts.org where we give you the facts and dispel the myths Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf See my designs exclusively at www.TyWolfeDesigns.com Editor/Proofreader http://hometown.aol.com/kmc528/KMC.html |
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Off Topic getting Patterns in braille!!
Good question - most of this discussion is decidedly on topic. Judy
wrote: Why are the subjects "patterns in Braille" and tatting marked as "OT" ? |
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