{"id":2742,"date":"2011-01-14T06:48:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2011-01-14T06:48:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:48:42","slug":"embroidery-teachers-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/01\/14\/embroidery-teachers-need\/","title":{"rendered":"something all embroidery teachers need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I received an order of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion<\/a> from a lovely lady who told me about the circumstances that resulted in her purchasing the book:<\/p>\n

Last year I attended a course at [a patchwork shop], to do with hand-appliqu\u00e9ing designs. There were 3 left-handers out of 12 participants, and one had your book on left-handed embroidery. It was certainly a help on the course for some of the more complicated stitches [the teacher] encouraged us to use.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always enjoyed needlework, but it has very much been my hobby, not my consuming passion. Now I find needlework can strain the eyes, so have done little embroidery or cross-stitch in the past 10 years, finding patchwork easier to do. However I like to have \u201csomething on the go\u201d so was pleased to see a book for left-handers.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nHer comments raise a very interesting point: she found The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion<\/a> a useful addition to the class she was taking. It seems that it made it easier for her to learn about the stitches that the teacher suggested that they could use, from a left-handed point of view. <\/p>\n

Statistics suggest that 10-15% of all people are left-handed. It is therefore likely that we can extrapolate that to show that about 10-15% of embroiderers are also left-handed. Within an embroidery class, that usually means that from about one to three students are likely to be left-handed. (That’s my experience anyway.)<\/p>\n

I’d therefore like to suggest:<\/p>\n