Happy Left-Handers Day!

Apparently today is International Left-Handers Day. I have no idea who decrees these things, but this being the home of left-handed embroidery, why not celebrate it?!

As you probably know, I am left-handed (to misquote from “The Princess Bride”!). I wrote The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion because I realised how much left-handed embroidery students loved having a left-handed teacher, and I thought that if I packaged myself up into a book, then they could take me everywhere with them!

And it seems that lefties love the book. I regularly get people telling me how much they love seeing the needle pointing in the direction that makes sense to them. I’ve also had many right-handed grandmas so pleased to be able to give the book to their left-handed grandchildren, to help them teach their grandchildren to do embroidery. I’m pleased to have helped so many people!

As well as our left-handed stitch dictionary, we also stock left-handed embroidery scissors. These scissors have the blades mounted the opposite way to regular scissors. With regular scissors, when you open the blades, the left blade goes down and the right blade goes up. With left-handed scissors, the left blade comes up, and the right blade goes down. This makes it easier for a left-hander to see what they are cutting.

We also stock left-handed thread, which is spun in a particular way, just for left-handers, and left-handed fabric which is woven the opposite direction to regular fabric. No, I’m kidding! There is no such thing as left-handed thread or fabric! 🙂

So, to all the left-handed embroiderers out there, happy Left-Handers Day!