{"id":858,"date":"2010-05-08T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=858"},"modified":"2010-05-07T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T10:41:21","slug":"an-interesting-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/05\/08\/an-interesting-question\/","title":{"rendered":"an interesting question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday when I was cheeky enough to ask my local needlework shop why they didn’t have my new book in, during the conversation the shopowner asked me “Are you left-handed?” I replied that I am.<\/p>\n

When she heard that The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion<\/a> was due out in August, she asked why I can write the right-handed version when I am left-handed.<\/p>\n

A good question.<\/p>\n

And my answer to her was “Well, I’ve been teaching right-handers right-handed for years.”<\/p>\n

I am extremely well versed in teaching right-handed stitchers how to stitch. And despite the fact that many right-handed teachers think it is ok to make the left-hander sit in front of them and copy them in reverse, I don’t think that is an acceptable way for me to teach right-handers.<\/p>\n

When teaching right-handers, I switch my needle over to my right hand and show them how to do it in a right-handed way. I take a little longer, and I probably look a little awkward (it not being my natural way to stitch), but it certainly gets the job done!<\/p>\n

No-one has ever questioned my ability to teach right-handers in a class, and about 90% of my students are right-handed, so most of my teaching practice is that way round!<\/p>\n

I reckon that really, I have the best of both worlds, being able to teach embroidery in both a left-handed and right-handed way, thereby catering to all my students, whether in person or in a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday when I was cheeky enough to ask my local needlework shop why they didn’t have my new book in, during the conversation the shopowner asked me “Are you left-handed?” I replied that I am.<\/p>\n

When she heard that The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion was due out in August, she asked why I can write the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,9,36,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stitch-dictionary","category-teaching-embroidery","category-the-right-handed-embroiderers-companion","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":867,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}