{"id":6976,"date":"2014-08-13T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2014-08-13T06:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T20:54:40","slug":"happy-international-left-handed-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2014\/08\/13\/happy-international-left-handed-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Left-Handed Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is International Left-Handed Day, and as I am left-handed, I do enjoy the fact that we get our own special day!<\/p>\n

I’ve had many interactions over the years with other left-handed stitchers, and many have loved having me as a left-handed embroidery teacher. I have heard horror story after horror story of them being told by right-handed teachers how they cannot teach them anything. Can you imagine if I, as a left-handed teacher, said that to all the right-handers in my class? I’d never get invited back. <\/p>\n

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\nRight-handers regularly say “all left-handers need to do is sit opposite the teacher, and then they can do it”. Well, NO, actually. <\/p>\n

NO. <\/p>\n

In the world of embroidery, swapping from right-handed to left-handed is NOT always as simple as flipping or working in mirror image. Yes, sometimes that works just fine. But not always. Sometimes, turning the work 90 degrees or 180 degrees is the best solution. It is all to do with thread twist, and the mechanics of some stitches. The trick is knowing which answer works for which question.<\/p>\n

Once at a craft show, I had my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion<\/a> on display. A grumpy woman walked past, stopped, looked at the book and said accusingly, “There’s no need for a book like that!” I smiled and let her go on her uninformed way, standing strong in the knowledge that there IS a need for “a book like that”. No, she might not need it, but from the feedback I’ve had from so many grateful left-handed stitchers, it DEFINITELY has been appreciated by many stitchers.<\/p>\n

My favourite objection to the book though, would have to be the one where the person thought it was ridiculous that I should think that I could dictate to all left-handers that this was the correct way to stitch. Um, did I say that? Or, like all other embroidery book authors, did I just present *A* way to stitch, in this case *A* way that just might work better for left-handers than right-handed instructions?<\/p>\n

Who would have known that a left-handed embroidery book could be so controversial?!<\/p>\n

Other embroidery books MIGHT have a section for left handed embroiderers, but usually only basic stitches are presented. This book is a treasure trove of stitches that we left handed stitchers can now learn to do the correct way. It is the best embroidery book that I own. The steps are all pictured clearly and are easy to follow. THANK YOU Yvette Stanton for recognizing the need and creating this embroiderer’s bible. W.S. Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

I get it! No more confusing translations from right to left hand. Even the very complicated stitches are crystal clear! Where has this book been all my life? If you are a lefty, you owe it to yourself to get this book. M. Dilworth<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sheer quantity of written and in-person thanks that I have received tell me that many left-handed people really do love The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion<\/a>. Ignoring the knockers, I am so pleased to know that I have opened the way to embroidery for many left-handers. It makes it very rewarding to know that because of something I have done, someone else can now do something that previously had defeated them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Happy International Left-Handed Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is International Left-Handed Day, and as I am left-handed, I do enjoy the fact that we get our own special day!<\/p>\n

I’ve had many interactions over the years with other left-handed stitchers, and many have loved having me as a left-handed embroidery teacher. I have heard horror story after horror story of them being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,16,12,35,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-left-handed-embroidery","category-stitch-dictionary","category-teaching-embroidery","category-the-left-handed-embroiderers-companion","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","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=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}