Hi
As a left hander I knit, crochet , needlelace etc left handed. I can usually
sit opposite someone to work out how to do something otherwise I watch them
do it right handed and transpose it. I have very rarely had a left handed
teacher so I have always found my own way to follow instructions.
Crochet patterns in words are fine but the picture ones I find too difficult
to transpose. Lace is great as it is not left or right handed.
Corinne
Brighton UK
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Subject: [lace] Easiest for who?
From: Bronwen of Hindscroft <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [lace] Lace and math, was Teaching children
Easiest for who?
As a left hander, this kind of idea (that all a right hander needed to do
was
sit opposite and let me mirror image) is part of what caused me to
hate......................
Hi Bronwen
I’m a left hander and have always been reasonably able with my right hand
so
my mother said that as I could use both hands I could learn to knit right
handed as it uses both hands. Unfortunately, although I can knit and have
done
fairisle, the wrong hand is dominant and I feel like I am fighting myself.
Like you, the experience means I hate it.
I have taught myself to crochet and tat right handed and can teach them
successfully to right handers. When I teach a left-hander I feel confused
about what to say regarding the words left and right and end up just working
slowly saying ‘do this’. It works but it would be better if I could add
the commentary.
Can someone explain this? ( I have my own ideas but don’t want to express
them and start another free-for-all with some members getting very
indignant.
I’ll let someone else take the flack for this one.)
Happy lacemaking
Alex
P.S Not sure how to cut an email. I copy the relevant part, paste it into a
new page and go on from there.
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