Re: [lace] Easiest for who?
alexstillw...@talktalk.net wrote: Unfortunately, although I can knit and have done fairisle, the wrong hand is dominant and I feel like I am fighting myself. Like you, the experience means I hate it. Interesting result! I'm a lefty and my mother's righty. She taught me most things for lefties, but I wasn't able to get the hang of knitting from her. I figured it out in my late 20's, right-handed. It doesn't bother me to knit "wrong-handed". I chose to learn guitar right-handed, too. But tatting? I can barely do it left-handed but right-handed is a lot worse. -I have taught myself to crochet and tat right handed and can teach them successfully to right handers. When I teach a left-hander I feel confused about what to say regarding the words left and right and end up just working slowly saying âdo thisâ. It works but it would be better if I could add the commentary. This would be because the movements are no longer properly associated with the words. It's like seeing a three of hearts playing card with the little hearts painted black. People will, when faced with this, often call it a three of spades. Some get so disoriented by the discrepency that they can't even get the number right. For many years I wore my watch on my left hand so I could wind the stem. I got tired of it getting in the way when I reached for something and put it on my right wrist. I didn't notice the relationship at first, but I did notice I was having a lot of trouble touch typing. I got tired of looking at the wrong wrist to tell the time, and put my watch back on the left and this time I noticed that my typing was back to normal--my brain unconsciously associated the feel of the watch with left/right hand. When cues are out of synch, your brain gets confused. When I took a knotted needlelace workshop from Gretchen Allegier, lefties were in the majority--8 of 11 students! She did great 'switching gears' for us lefties, but then had trouble teaching the righties. We'd gotten her all turned around and right-handed work looked "somehow wrong" to her. (Don't worry, she got straightened out after class!) Robin P. Los Angeles, California, USA robinl...@socal.rr.com Parvum leve mentes capiunt (Little things amuse little minds) - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Lace headboard
This is very image intensive, and the only lace picture is the 24th one down. However, it's a HUGE lace flower being used as a headboard for a bed! http://www.architectureartdesigns.com/62-diy-cool-headboard-ideas/ Bronwen -- "It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength." - May Sarton - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] "In Fine Style" - Book's Availability in the U.S.
This is a book that will be of interest to art and antiques collectors, historians, museums, universities, etc. It is not surprising that American Arachne members are waiting longer than usual for book delivery from Amazon. May I suggest other local suppliers? By this, I do not mean big chain book stores. My local bookstore on Main Street was asked to order the book (via e-mail). It was ready to be picked up in six days! Rita does not use Amazon, meaning the book is available from other sources. She gives customers a discount, made possible by lower costs of doing business in a small town. A compelling reason to shop locally is to maintain some semblance of privacy in a time when everything about you is recorded and shared. Cash transactions in town mean that money circulates on your Main Street, instead of going directly to some big out-of-state conglomerate. Local research indicates money spent in town turns over 3 to 4 times before all leaves the area. This is economically beneficial to the place where one lives, and worth consideration when ordering lace books -- if there is a small book store near you. Over 18 years, the amount of service received locally has been exceptional. Rita just delivered a 1987 book by Bert Dewilde "Flax in Flanders Throughout the Centuries - History, Technical Evolution, Folklore". It is a English version, 216-pages, hardback, undamaged, shipped from Belgium. Dewilde is founder, promoter and curator of the National Flax Museum in Kortrijk, Belgium (where there is also a lace museum). Perhaps not of interest to lacemakers, but a good addition to a lace research library. Jeri Ames in Maine USA Lace and Embroidery Resource Center. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
[lace] Right handed vs. left handed, general
I have not paid much attention to this thread, as I am happily one of the majority, right handed. And I have never taught a left hander any physical skill, so it never was part of my experience, except in carefully placing any left hander at the dinner table. 3 observations However it is taught, a good teacher will try different methods until one one works with that student. So all the strategies for teaching an other-handed person are worth trying, and some may work, and some may not, but it is the responsibility of the teacher to teach in a way that the student can learn. I think we bobbin lacemakers may have some experience with the situation for left handers when we switch the side of the headside on the pillow, as when one goes from Continental to English, or the other way around. Takes a while, and some thought, to get those picots to work. In 2002 we were in England and I rented a car. Stick shift. I could do the left side of the road thing with little trouble, but the shifting with the left hand was a nightmare. I would develop a tic in my right eye 15 minutes after I started driving. Every time. Drove me nuts. I blended into the other drivers, except that on country roads I was always in the front of a line of traffic because I refused to go 50 miles per hour through a little country village. Pulled over several times to let the line through. And then it took a while to adjust when I got home. Lyn in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where it will be cooler today. High of 78F 23C, with clouds and a chance of rain, as usual. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
