Any left handed oldstylers?

Justamum

chops22 wrote: »

It is also handy sometimes as both my mum and aunties would rather iron themselves than watch me iron as it drove them potty watching how awkward I was!!

An iron is neither left nor right handed so I don't see what the problem is? I iron left handed. Well I do when I actually bother to iron :rotfl:(a very rare occurrence these days )

JoeyGrey

I'm right handed but do a lot of knitting. I was reading somewhere a couple of years ago that there are really fast knitters who knit both left handed and right handed so that they don't have to turn the knitting in between rows. So I taught myself to knit left handed and now I can do it both ways. I'm still not very quick though

It has come in handy though as my 8 year old niece is left handed (grey-green eyes) and so I have used it to try to teach her to knit. Not that she particularly wants to learn, but I'll keep giving it a go as she gets older.

nikflo

fab thread! my dd 6, is left handed (with brown eyes), she holds her fork in her left hand when eating one handed, and swaps it to the right when using a knife, it all looks very cack handed to me and i'm sure its not right??

twiz21

purpleivy wrote: »

I don't know what to do with ds. He's a leftie and has never managed to learn to use scissors. He's now 16. Tried left and right handed scissors. He uses the right handed can opener all right, but never bothers with the lefthanded one his gran bought him.

Hi purpleivy, I am a left hander. I could not use scissors properly until I was well into my twenties.
It was so frustrating with cutting along fine lines and angles.

The thing I most remember was the weekly 'Bunty' comic. On the back page was 'Bunty's cut-out wardrobe'
These were paper clothes with tabs on that you could cut out and put on the 'Bunty' model. (she was pasted onto cardboard).
I would regularly slice across the little tabs, it was an impossible task.
My Bunties didn't get many clothes to wear.

I think in the end it was lots and lots of practice and determination.
Later on, I had several jobs working for designers using many different materials including cloth. In one job I had, I was told I was the only person there who could cut in a straight line!