Left-Handed Quilters Issues?
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Does anybody but me among the left-handed find that they have problems with tools/equipment/layout/cutting?
I just bought one and discovered that the OLFA is a right-handed cutter. I have trouble with visual instructions because the wrong hands are in them.
No, after 48 years I am used to right-handed sewing machines! LOL
I just bought one and discovered that the OLFA is a right-handed cutter. I have trouble with visual instructions because the wrong hands are in them.
No, after 48 years I am used to right-handed sewing machines! LOL
#3
Hear, Hear!
Whenever I have taken a class or workshop the reaction is the same "oh, dear, you're left-handed". It's not catchy!
I use the Olfa erganomic cutter and have no problem with it. Many tools now are made either ambidextrious or in right / left handed versions so I don't really have a problem.
It is usually funny when the girls and I get togehter to sew; after I use the ironing board the next person starts to iron left handed and suddenly feels like "something isn't right". And I giggle every time!
Whenever I have taken a class or workshop the reaction is the same "oh, dear, you're left-handed". It's not catchy!
I use the Olfa erganomic cutter and have no problem with it. Many tools now are made either ambidextrious or in right / left handed versions so I don't really have a problem.
It is usually funny when the girls and I get togehter to sew; after I use the ironing board the next person starts to iron left handed and suddenly feels like "something isn't right". And I giggle every time!
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I have adjusted to the right handed world and can work from the right or left. I have a fiskars rotary cutter that can be used either way. Infact most of my tools can be used right or left.
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My cutter can be configured either left or right handed.
I have learned to adjust directions and such.
But do not take away my left-handed scissors. The best thing ever - and I love it when right-handed people pick them up and realize that somtehing isn't right.
I have learned to adjust directions and such.
But do not take away my left-handed scissors. The best thing ever - and I love it when right-handed people pick them up and realize that somtehing isn't right.
#7
Originally Posted by sewmary
My cutter can be configured either left or right handed.
I have learned to adjust directions and such.
But do not take away my left-handed scissors. The best thing ever - and I love it when right-handed people pick them up and realize that somtehing isn't right.
I have learned to adjust directions and such.
But do not take away my left-handed scissors. The best thing ever - and I love it when right-handed people pick them up and realize that somtehing isn't right.
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