today I scan

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Having now made my “plates” for printing I’m going to be able to scan them and get them tidied for printing. It’s super exciting. I will be able to publish these as they are for people who already can read pattern blocks but then I’ll have a whole lot of handy images to add in stages to help those who do not.

I’m also going to have a list of stitches with their uses and why they are used. I’m going to go through those stitching plates and also see if I can get left handed people to test mirror images or alternative ways to hold items.

I know in the past left handed people have been shamed out of using their leading hand (if you are still, I am so sorry- I know a lot of common tools are defaulted to right handed people.) That is not an element of the past I want to receate!

But before that scanning!

 

Comments

[bzzzyb]

"I’m going to go through those stitching plates and also see if I can get left handed people to test mirror images or alternative ways to hold items." This is great!!! As a leftie, I know a lot of us are just used to "translating" in our head, or just make due with using our "stupid" hand, but it's nice that someone is actually asking. :D I learned a lot by mirroring, and it's how I teach as well if someone asks me to show them something. Such an easy thing to do, sit across rather than side by side, but you'd be amazed ( or not?) at how many don't do that. Of course, having tools that work with the hand helps, I do everything left handed but use scissors. They didn't have any when I was little, so now when I try to use left handed scissors it's awful and doesn't work. :/

Bee!

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My mum is left handed so I get to use the (electric) can opener and things because they just really don't work for her. And she opens heavily glued paper bags because my hands don't work that way :)

The good thing here is there are a handful of actual stitches for construction and generally the sit on the floor pin to the knee and work out from there approach works for either hand :)