Can you sew in both directions?

Okay, Kidlet was laughing at me -- I stitch by hand and *always* turn the piece so I am sewing from the right to the left. Yes, I'm right handed.

Is this the "norm" or am I slightly off as she avers? How exactly do you sew/quilt?

J, fixing a pillowcase at present, and next is repair of my favorite pants. Seems like I spend more time fixing them than wearing. Oh well, comfy works, (smile)

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janice142
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Estelle Gallagher

That's how I sew too, but I'm able to go the other way if necessary. When I belonged to a patchwork group in Denmark, they all thought it was very odd to sew "backwards" like I did. They all learned to go left to right! Roberta in D, need to pay attention to which way the German ladies think is normal

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Roberta Zollner

I can do both but prefer right to left. I see better with my left eye so I try to work away from the 'bad eye'. Right -handed also.

Butterfly

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Butterflywings

I have to say ... although I know a few that can stitch both ways, pretty much everyone I know that's right-handed stitches right to left.

I can stitch both ways, but stitching left to right ... just feels ... off. Not as comfy and if I *do* stitch L to R, I have to concentrate otherwise I end up going back over my stitches! :)

So, I'd have to say, unless several chime in that they stitch L to R, that R to L IS the norm. :)

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Connie

Janice, I think your DD is right and you're slightly "off". I stitch from left to right. I don't think that it matters that I'm left-handed. LOL!

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Sandy

In message , Sandy writes

If I am hemming I sew from left to right. If I am basting, back stitching I sew from right to left. I am right handed. Shirley

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Shirley Shone

Right to left for me, too.

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Donna in NE La.

when I hand quilt, I usually go up-left to down-right. Sometimes, however, I throw a thimble on my right thumb and go down-left to up-right

Cathy in BC

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Cathy

Does no one else sew from bottom to top?

Sometimes on small things I will go left to right or right to left, depending. But if it is big enough to wrap the fingers of my left hand, I go bottom to top. Big things get pinned to a cushion and done bottom to top always.

NightMist

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NightMist

janice142 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@k29g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

Right handed but I go left or right, depending upon what I'm working on. I tend to actually *start* at the far left of an item though and work my way right.

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Terri

I'm right handed and go right to left and turn what I'm sewing to work right to left rather than change the angle of my wrist. I doubt I could make even stitches left handed if I wanted to.

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melinda

Right handed and sew left to right, or towards myself.

liz young > I am right handed and sew from right to left!

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Elizabeth Young

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Pati Cook

Hm, this made me stop and think - being Danish.

I'm left-handed and so have had to just throw away most of the actual hand-actions any one ever tried to teach me.

I stitch left to right (like right to left for a right handed person) for running stitches, but I think for many other stitches direction is less of an issue (I'm thinking of back stitches and slip stitches - isn't that what the stitches used for English paper piecing is called?).

Maybe those ladies were doing English paper piecing?

Yet another benefit of sewing with you ladies and guys, no one will tease us for sewing backwards!

Hanne in London

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Hanne Gottliebsen

I can sew right to left, and somewhat top to bottom if it's sort of at an angle. That's it.

Karen, Queen of Squishies

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Karen, Queen of Squishies

The question came up when I brought a quilt along to my local guild meeting to hand stitch the binding. Someone kindly offered to help, and we realized we were stitching in different directions. Both right-handed. She went left to right, and I went right to left. IMO definitely a cultural thing and unrelated to "handedness". Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

Aha, but this is not a running stitch, right?

Also, for binding, you can hold it with the quilt towards you or the binding towards you, and this would make a difference between going clock-wise or anti-clock-wise around the quilt.

Well at least it makes perfect sense to me.

I find it hard to imagine doing a running stitch left to right if right handed... But then I can't knit to save my life either, so I'm sure it is possible :-)

Hanne in London

Roberta Zollner wrote:

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Hanne Gottliebsen

We both had the binding edge towards us, and we went different directions. But you're right, I can't imagine doing a running stitch left to right. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

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