Which way to thread the needle DUh moment or have I being doing it wrong all this time!!

I had a very wierd moment yesterday. I was sewing through a lot of layers of denim, I'm making bags from Jeans again and where I insert the zip across the waistband it gets preety thick. So I'm happily sewing along when the thread snapped, so I went to rethread, however because of the bulk of the denim I couldn't thread very easily either with the zip foot up or down, and I didn't want to remove the item as it's a bit of a "pig" to get back in once I'm half way along. My odd moment came when I realised I couldn't see the eye of the needle very well while threading from the left hand so I swopped hands, ie. the hand pushing the thread into the needle is now my right hand ( by the way I am threading from front to back) Then it occured to me, I am right handed yet I thread my needle with my left hand ! Is that the way I was taught or is that normal? Prahaps I've been doing it wrong all these years. Whichever it was a very disconcerting discovery, any thoughts?

Claire in Montréal, France.

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Huh. Never gave it much thought but I am also right-handed, but thread my machines with my left. I don't ever remember being taught to do it that way, but the needle is on the left side of the machine as I sit facing them so reaching across to use my right would be awkward.

In college I took a psychology course in which we were required (for part of our grade) to volunteer for several experiments and surveys conducted by other students. Having been warned in advance to avoid anything involving electricity, I participated in a study where they assessed our degree of handedness - exactly how dominant is your dominant hand. That one was a piece of cake. They just asked you if you were right- or left-handed then observed as you completed a series of tasks. Writing, eating, throwing a ball, catching a thrown or dropped item, lifting a heavy object, opening containers, etc.

Apparently I'm not considered very strongly right-handed. I eat, write and throw with my right hand. I use my left hand to unscrew lids and pry open container tops. I'll grab at a falling object with whichever hand is closest. I lift heavy things with my left hand. Scissors, screwdrivers and hammers are wielded by the right. I use my left hand to apply lipstick, but my right does the mascara and eye liner. When I pluck my eyebrows, the right hand does the right brow and the left hand does the left.

My mother was unsurprised by the results, and said that as a baby I ate and played using both hands equally and that she encouraged right-handedness by consistently putting utensils, crayons, etc. into my right hand. I wonder if that's why my handwriting has always been so miserable... Maybe I was meant to be left-handed.

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Thats probably the reason. I was just shocked that it took me 30 huh hum years to work out, I'm sooo observant!! it's probably the only thing in life I do left handed . I ought to ask my sister how whe threads her machine as she is lefthanded! LOL

Claire in Montréal, France.

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