Karen's UFO Quilt Along

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Comment by Cornwoman/AZ on November 12, 2009 at 2:43pm

Lol You both are too funny! I can write legibly with both hands, though it takes me longer with my left because I don't do it often. But for the life of me, I can't seem to pour stuff into a measuring cup as a rightie, and am always peering through the measuring cup to the side with the cup measurements rather than the metric that are on the side facing me. lol

Comment by QuiltDragon on November 11, 2009 at 5:57pm

Collette, you crack me up! Here's some wierd things...My mom writes lefty, but does most everything else righty, my dad was a wrote righty and did most everything else lefty. I do most things righty, but when I'm making bows or counting money, I do it lefty - go figure. When my DH was younger and his baby sister started writing, etc, he wanted a left handed sister, so he talked (or coerced) her into writing lefty (or at least that's his story). Anyway, my SIL's handwriting is TERRIBLE. Maybe that's why!?!

Comment by Collette Batten on November 11, 2009 at 4:03pm

I only use left handed quilting needles. Just Kidding! Everyone knows their all right handed.

Comment by Cat Lady--MO on November 11, 2009 at 1:20pm

Collette, when I was learning to write back in the fist grade, the teacher I had insisted that the paper be turned correctly so that as a left handed person, I did not have to form my hand into a gnarl to write. When I watch some people (right and lefties) write now days, I am amazed they do not suffer from carpel tunnel from the way they have their wrists bent so that their hands are folded back almost onto their arms.

Comment by Collette Batten on November 11, 2009 at 12:37pm

I am left handed. But, can't seem to do much of any thing except write. Even then I don't write like most lefter. I turn my paper instead of my hand. So my writing looks like a right hand. My mother wouldn't teach me to knit because I am the only left handed person in our family. She thought only a left hand person could teach me. I taught myself with a book but knitting is a two handed thing. Because I write left handed I hand stitch left handed. But, the other day someone told me I was using my right hand. I stopped and hey I was..... I was shocked. But, after she pointed that out I had to change back to the left hand. I must of been talking and not notice what I was doing. Someone told me it's right brain or is it the other way around?

Comment by Cornwoman/AZ on November 11, 2009 at 7:42am

I'm ambidextrous, due to smashing my right wrist when I was in the 4th grade, while we were learning some fine motor skills like handwriting, etc. So there are some things that I do only with the left hand, some that I do only with the right hand, and some that I can do with either hand that I want. I don't think about which hand it's supposed to be done with, I just learn to do things with whichever hand it feels the most natural to do the task with.

Comment by Laurie on November 10, 2009 at 10:46pm

I think Cheri has a good idea. Course I'm always up for a challenge and would probably try to learn left handed along with her....probably would make for some good laughs anyway. Maybe you could set a mirror in your lap and she could watch what you're doing in the mirror. It would reverse it for her and you could be in your normal comfortable position holding your sewing and she would have the same view as if she was beside you looking at it.

I had the day off so I've made alot of progress on the clamshell today. I just might get the top finished before the end of the month. We'll see. A few more productive days like today and I'll make it.

Comment by QuiltDragon on November 10, 2009 at 7:07pm

I don't know whether or not I mentioned it in this group, but with regard to labeling, in the '80's when many states were doing heritage quilt documentations, I learned that it is very important to document the quilt with a label, even if it's handwritten in a corner. It not only helps to trace the history of a family, but it can be instrumental in dating the fabric and thus the quilt...especially with the reproduction fabrics so prevalent today, it can be very hard to tell. So, label your quilts! Barb

Comment by Cheri on November 10, 2009 at 4:00pm

I once read that the perfect world for a lefty would be in the relection of a mirror (like Alice in wonderland) because man has made our world a right-handed one.
My mom is a lefty - I always wondered what the big deal was about her left handed scissors (I think they were pinking shears).
Years later I did a term paper on left-handedness (that's when I learned about the mirror image)

Comment by Ronda on November 10, 2009 at 3:13pm

Cat Lady, I'm a left too! I had to teach myself many, many things, but teaching right handed does work well doing the mirror thing...Lindy you're very good about labelling...that's another downfall of mine,,,yikes! Usually by the time I'm done with the quilt, I just want to give it away (it's usually for a gift) and need to slow down to put nice labels on...I have so many areas to improve in...made one block today...that's all I've done all week...sigh...

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