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    Old 08-05-2010, 05:48 PM
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    Left handed, four of my six brothers are also lefties. One of my right handed sisters has three lefties and one right handed child.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 05:51 PM
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    Originally Posted by Quilter101
    I'm just sort of curious,
    I'm left handed.
    How many people on here that quilt are left handed/ right handed
    Proud to be a lefty.... I'm the only one in our family. Although I did teach my sister how to write, so now she does everything as a righty except she writes as a lefty.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 06:29 PM
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    I'm just amazed at how many have been "switched". I was left handed and changed to right. I am slightly dislexic, I usually have my children "proof" my layout. It amazes me how easy they can spot an inverted square while I remain blind to it.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 06:36 PM
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    Leftie here. The only one in my family of 6 bros and sisters.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 06:42 PM
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    I am right handed and do almost everything with my right hand.

    When I skeet shoot, my dominant eye is my left eye but I still shoot with my right hand. I never had a problem but others seem to think that I should have.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 06:50 PM
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    left handed!
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    Old 08-05-2010, 07:20 PM
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    I am a lefty with right hand dominance.

    Although I did have a teacher in 1st grade try to get me to write right handed. Some lefties and some righties only wright with that hand and do everything else with the dominate hand.

    I write and eat, and brush my teeth with my left hand
    I can write (but not good) cut, sew, throw a ball and everything else with my right hand. I also kick with my right foot.
    So I am really a righty since I do more things with my right.

    I think I have the best of both worlds. My niece is a true lefty and she gets so frustrated not being able to do something or like with cutting and such.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 07:32 PM
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    I was also switched from left hand to right hand in first grade. I sew, cut, etc., left handed and write with my right hand. I have a little trouble with left | right hand directions and arrow directions, especially if I am tired. Rotary cutting drives me crazy as I keep switching and getting "the glove" on the wrong hand. It is frustrating using equipment set up for right hand; I have a pair of left hand scissors which I treasure (no one else in my family like these). I find it hard to reverse instructions. Recently I bought a needle turned applique book with right hand directions, of course. Nothing worked and I finally gave up for now. I will have to take out all stitches and just "wing it." I gave up trying to learn crochet and forget the MIRROR reverse method.
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    Old 08-05-2010, 08:26 PM
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    Left handed. Only knit and crochet right because the sis who taught me was right handed.
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    Old 08-06-2010, 08:56 AM
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    Right handed - left-footed on sewing machine pedal. I can bat a ball both lefty and righty. I've tried rotary cutting lefty, and I discovered I need a LOT of practice LOL
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