Left Handed in a Right Handed World
I have always been left handed, and quite proud of that. Nobody else in my family was left handed when I was growing up, so it sorta made me special. My husband is left handed, so that is also cool - we related on that level. The level that only left handers know, about how sometimes it is difficult to do things with ease because of all those pesky right handers in the world thinking only of themselves.
As you saw in my previous post, I just finished my first crochet critter. I crochet left handed .... illustrations on how to do certain stitches are drawn or photographed using right handed crocheters. Normally this isn't much of a problem because I have pretty much all of the major things down in crocheting so I don't need to refer to those diagrams much. Except that every single piece of that critter was started with what's called an adjustable loop, so that it could be pulled tight and close the circle at the beginning of the piece. The only instructions I could find on how to do an adjustable loop were, yep, illustrated with right handed crocheters. Now, you'd think it would just be as easy as "flipping it around" but the way you are supposed to hold the loop and crochet around the yarn is just weird to begin with, I hardly understood how they were doing it in the picture in the first place. So, I did what I typically do as a left hander in this right handed world ... I figured it out on my own.
Now, don't misunderstand ... I LOVE being left handed and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It would just be nice if right handed people who were writing/ illustrating/ photographing instructions for something, would think about us left handed folks and throw us a bone.
Labels: crochet, left-handed
