Special quilting thread for "lefties"?
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Special quilting thread for "lefties"?
My sister, who lives in Michigan, visited her LQS the other day. She is a leftie and the owner said that her daughters who quilt are also lefties. She told my sister that there is a special quilting thread for those who quilt left-handed but she doesn't carry it in her shop. What is she talking about?
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I'm sitting here trying not to fall off my chair.... LOL
First of all, there is no such thing.
Second of all I think your sister should find a different LQS to shop.
There is NOTHING special about a lefty sewing anything - other than 'we' do it left handed. Sure there are lefty sissors but EVERYTHING else is the same for a lefty as it is for a righty. All the tools are the same (other than possibly sissors) and we may lay out / cut our fabric from a different angle but the end result is still the same.
What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. Thread is thread.
Tell your sister to find another place to shop.
LOL
Shari
First of all, there is no such thing.
Second of all I think your sister should find a different LQS to shop.
There is NOTHING special about a lefty sewing anything - other than 'we' do it left handed. Sure there are lefty sissors but EVERYTHING else is the same for a lefty as it is for a righty. All the tools are the same (other than possibly sissors) and we may lay out / cut our fabric from a different angle but the end result is still the same.
What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. Thread is thread.
Tell your sister to find another place to shop.
LOL
Shari
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I can't see that thread wound differently on the spool or woven differently would benefit left handed quilters. There is a way you are supposed to take it off the spool for right handed quilting so the the thread twists less, BUT for left handed quilters....they could just use the other end of the thread to put through the needle eye.
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Shari</sigh>
#8
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This the only left-handed item I know about.
http://www.leftyslefthanded.com/Left...r_p/605793.htm
http://www.leftyslefthanded.com/Left...r_p/605793.htm
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