exploring left handedness and embroidery

I have been thinking a lot about left handedness and its effect on learning embroidery, since my Left Handed Day post. I decided to explore it a little bit more in a larger forum. As a member of the Country Bumpkin Forums, I posted there asking about the left-handedness or otherwise of members there. I have a poll to try to find out how many people are left handed, right handed or ambidextrous. As of this morning, I’m still the only leftie there.

One of the forum members suggested I take a look at the site for
Anything Left Handed. I had heard of it but hadn’t yet visited. Having had a quick look, it looks like something I will have to explore further later in the day. It would be interesting to see if they have some good left-handed embroidery and dressmaking scissors.

I remember that I had some left handed scissors when I was younger, but somewhere along the way they have disappeared. I particularly hate doing lots of dressmaking cutting out, because my hand gets so sore from holding my right-handed dressmaking scissors. The finger holes go the wrong way, so they cut into my hand, and are very uncomfortable.

I knew that left handed scissors have the finger holes going the left handed way, but what I didn’t realise until recently, was that they also have the blades flipped, so that the top blade comes down on the other side! I guess that this is supposed to make it easier to see what you are cutting. It would be interesting to try to see if its much better.

Something I’ll probably have to try!