{"id":60,"date":"2008-08-18T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T21:41:00","slug":"exploring-left-handedness-and-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/08\/18\/exploring-left-handedness-and-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"exploring left handedness and embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

One of the forum members suggested I take a look at the site for
Anything Left Handed<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Something I’ll probably have to try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-left-handed-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}