Such a question can really only be asked by a right hander…<\/p>\n
I was talking with some people yesterday, about writing my left-handed embroidery book. One of them, who is right-handed, said “Well, its all just common sense really.” I just stopped and stared at her, and said, “That is SUCH a right-handed thing to say!”<\/p>\n
I ask all you right-handed people: How would you feel if you were a less-than-confident stitcher, and the only embroidery book you had available to you was written entirely for left-handers? Would you feel confident to be able to properly interpret the instructions in order to come up with the correct right-handed result? If you were trying to do a particularly tricky stitch, do you think that it could be even just slightly difficult?<\/p>\n
This is what it is like for many of us left-handers who live in a right-handed world. Some are better than others at mentally flipping or rotating everything to convert instructions into left-handed instructions. Some do not feel confident about it at all.<\/p>\n
They are exactly the people that I am writing my left-handed embroidery stitch book for. I want left handers to feel that they can be confident in learning and mastering new stitches, because they will have instructions written just for them.<\/p>\n
So all you right-handers, please don’t begrudge left-handers this exciting opportunity. Sure, you may not think it is important or necessary, but from all the excited emails I am getting from left-handers who are just waiting<\/b> for this book, there are many left-handers out there who DO think it is necessary!<\/p>\n
There is also the fact that this book can benefit right-handers too – those who are wanting to teach left-handers how to embroider. The book will show the left-handed instructions for each of the stitches, but will also show a single view of how right-handers would do it. This is so that right-handed teachers or instructors can remember how they would do it, and compare it with the left-handed way. Just a small way to make the book even more useful to more people.<\/p>\n
OK, I’ll get down off my soapbox now… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Such a question can really only be asked by a right hander…<\/p>\n
I was talking with some people yesterday, about writing my left-handed embroidery book. One of them, who is right-handed, said “Well, its all just common sense really.” I just stopped and stared at her, and said, “That is SUCH a right-handed thing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-left-handed-embroidery","category-teaching-embroidery","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}