Needle Arts with Vision Loss: How to Enjoy Machine Sewing Without Sight

by Shireen Irvine Perry

Overview

You can sew without sight! "How To Enjoy Machine Sewing Without Sight" is the third book in the “Needle Arts with Vision Loss” series. The focus is on safe adaptive blind techniques in machine sewing, including some hand sewing techniques and resources. With a good working knowledge of adaptive blind techniques, a visually impaired person can sew competently and safely while creating beautiful projects.

Shireen Irvine Perry, a teacher of Needle Arts with adaptive blind techniques, has been teaching blind and visually impaired adults Needle Arts for more than 35 years. Many of her students from the greater San Francisco Bay Area and beyond have asked her to write a book. This is it.

The methods have proven successful for Shireen's students over many years. She encourages her students to ask themselves, “How can I make this work safely?” instead of, “I can’t do this because I can’t see.”

Her hope is this book, along with the rest of the Needle Arts with Vision Loss series, may add perspective with other needle arts books to give both teachers and those with a visual impairment the means to tackle a project otherwise thought impossible. This book and the series may be used as a guide in teaching many of the adaptive needle arts techniques to those visually impaired or as a resource for newly blind experienced needle artists.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151837972
Publisher:	Shireen Irvine Perry
Publication date:	03/25/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Family & Consumer Sciences Teacher Of Needle Arts With Adaptive Blind Techniques

Shireen has been teaching blind and visually impaired adults Needle Arts for more than 35 years in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Many of her students have asked her to write a book. This is it.

"Needle Arts with Vision Loss" is a series of books on adaptive blind techniques in braided rugs, needle felting, machine sewing, hand sewing and related needle arts. "How to Enjoy Making Braided Rugs Without Sight" is the first book in the series. "How to Enjoy Needle Felting Without Sight" is the second book of the series. The third book in the series is "How to Enjoy Machine Sewing Without Sight". The series may be used as a guide in teaching the visually impaired any of the adaptive needle arts techniques or as a resource for newly blind experienced needle artists. The methods have proven successful for her students over many years. She encourages her students to ask themselves, “How can I make this work safely?” instead of “I can’t do this because I can’t see.”

Vision loss does not need to keep a person from enjoying hands-on creativity. Shireen hopes the Needle Arts with Vision Loss series may add perspective with other needle arts books, to give both teachers and those with a visual impairment the means to tackle a project otherwise thought impossible.