funny thing

Aaron, there is a solution. Make notes on the pattern substituting back/front for right/left. Being ambidextrous, right and left don't mean much to me either. DA

Aaron, you crack me up. THanks for the laugh!

Georgia

accommodation.

Oh, my, Aaron, I never thought of that! However, if you use a written out pattern instead of a chart, you should be OK, shouldn't you?

Higs, Kather> One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter

Thank you for the chuckle, Aaron. I have a friend who knits (I crochet our of sheer perversity) and she has dyslexia. She's complained to me a few times about charts, so I showed her a crochet lace chart I was working from at the time. She was very quiet for a minute, then looked at me with the largest, most earnest expression I've ever seen on her face. "Oh," she said. "You poor thing."

She hasn't complained since, but every once in a while I see her glancing over at what I'm working on with this really pained expression, as if she wants to apologize to me for the world treating me so harshly.

--Threnody

Actually, I keep my wedding ring on the table by my knitting chair. My sister made sure that it only fits my left hand so when I wear it, it is on the correct hand.

Mostly, I was just making fun of the way that special interest groups behave in the US these days.

Aaron

Hey, Aaron. I gotta admit that your post made me laugh too -- just loved the way your Grandfather gave directions. In fact, I wish he were somewhere around my area 'cause everybody here gives the worst directions in the world, like: "Go to the big tree ..." "Well, WHAT big tree 'cause there's a forest all along the road there!" "Oh, you'll know, it's really BIG. Then go to Joe's barn ..." "Who's Joe? Is the barn marked that it's his?" "No, it just Joe's and everybody knows it's his!" "Well I don't know, so how will I know where to turn?!!!" .......... It goes on like that forever. :-P

Anyhow, if you have your pattern on your 'puter, you could copy and paste into a word processing program and then use "find" for right and left and substitute east and west for them instead. If the pattern's not on your 'puter, maybe you could make a chart?

Thanks for the laugh, and good luck with all the crosses! Eve

Ah, yes, that is a good point!

Higs, Kather> Actually, I keep my wedding ring on the table by my knitting chair.

Try the aran charts in Barbara Walters' books. They just have a picture that shows which way the cables cross. (But I noticed that on one of them, the swatch knitter goofed on the last row of crosses!)

=Tamar

OMG, Aaron,

I have no problems with left and right but I have to think very hard about east and west. When I am home I can figure it out. The sun sets in front of my house, so that must be west, right? But did you eevr try to knit on a train?

Ria

AAron , thank yu for your senseof humour - and the way you solve the problem - I know of a Catholic friend who works out her right hand OK because that is the hand used to bless ones self !!! God Bless Gwen

Oh did that ever bring back memories, Gwen! I had a sudden flash of a childhood friend blessing herself so she could remember which was her right hand.

Eimear

OMgosh, when I was a kid, and a *then* Catholic, I did the same thing! snort! Noreen

Unfortunately I am directionaly disfuntional... I don't know east from west even WITH a map. So I would have trouble with those directions.

I have gotten lost in a large Campground with a map and several people helping me go in the right direction.

Katheryne who learned East/ West at my Grandma's house. The house faces Canada [which is North of us] and watched the sun set over Canada [the sun sets >One of the funniest things that I know of is a dyslexic knitter trying to