[Nfb-krafters-korner] comment about patterns

[AUDREY WELLNER]

Hi Joyce, 
     Quick reply to this e-mail---thanks for the further instructions to your preferences on the pattern tracing and cutting---I'll get back to your other e-mails as soon as I get a minute.  
     Monday night is my first American Sewing Guild group meeting from 6:45pm to 9pm at Middlebrook Farms Assisted Living Facility and I still haven't got everything ready to teach the technique I will be demonstrating--so I better stick to getting that done first.  Yipes!  The group costs $40 a year to join the guild.  I think it's a bit high for what you have to give and get in return. 
     Talk to you later and see you soon, 
     Audrey

Blindhands at aol.com wrote:
  I have my Mom cut patterns out on freezer paper. I have her fold the 
pattern on the grain line. I have her cut the pattern with the notches poking out 
and I have her put a notch poking inward on any pattern piece that is suppose 
to be cut out on a fold. 

Now I have found this to help me the best, when I pin the pattern on the 
fabric I use the longer quilt pins to pin it to the fabric. I cut it out using 
a smaller pair of very sharp scissors[5 inch scissors]. This way I have 
found I can cut and feel the edges of the freezer paper and not make long cuts 
into the fabric with the chance of cutting into seam allowance.

I do use a magnetic pin cushion and pin seams that need to be sewn with the 
sharp quilting pins. They are long and easy to feel and while I sew seams 
and such I can easily with my right hand pull pins out prior to approaching 
presser foot and with magnetic pin cushion kinda close to my hand toss them over 
to the pin cushion which will grab them and hold them on the pin cushion.

I had used the magnetic pin cushion and long pins well before I went blind 
in that same fashion.

I also have a telescopic magnet that extends maybe 3 feet, so if I drop any 
pins I don't have to bend down and search for them. I just slide my long 
magnet on the floor and then push them off on top of the pin cushion.

This is a hint for not only the blind, but the sighted folks, too.

Joyce



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Hi Joyce,
   Quick reply to this e-mail---thanks for the further instructions to your preferences on the pattern tracing and cutting---I'll get back to your other e-mails as soon as I get a minute. 
   Monday night is my first American Sewing Guild group meeting from 6:45pm to 9pm at Middlebrook Farms Assisted Living Facility and I still haven't got everything ready to teach the technique I will be demonstrating--so I better stick to getting that done first.  Yipes!  The group costs $40 a year to join the guild.  I think it's a bit high for what you have to give and get in return.
   Talk to you later and see you soon,
   Audrey
Blindhands at aol.com
wrote:
I have my Mom cut patterns out on freezer paper. I have her fold the
pattern on the grain line. I have her cut the pattern with the notches poking out
and I have her put a notch poking inward on any pattern piece that is suppose
to be cut out on a fold.
Now I have found this to help me the best, when I pin the pattern on the
fabric I use the longer quilt pins to pin it to the fabric. I cut it out using
a smaller pair of very sharp scissors[5 inch scissors]. This way I have
found I can cut and feel the edges of the freezer paper and not make long cuts
into the fabric with the chance of cutting into seam allowance.
I do use a magnetic pin cushion and pin seams that need to be sewn with the
sharp quilting pins. They are long and easy to feel and while I sew seams
and such I can easily with my right hand pull pins out prior to approaching
presser foot and with magnetic pin cushion kinda close to my hand toss them over
to the pin cushion which will grab them and hold them on the pin cushion.
I had used the magnetic pin cushion and long pins well before I went blind
in that same fashion.
I also have a telescopic magnet that extends maybe 3 feet, so if I drop any
pins I don't have to bend down and search for them. I just slide my long
magnet on the floor and then push them off on top of the pin cushion.
This is a hint for not only the blind, but the sighted folks, too.
Joyce
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