Special quilting thread for "lefties"?

[teddysmom]

My sister, who lives in Michigan, visited her LQS the other day. She is a leftie and the owner said that her daughters who quilt are also lefties. She told my sister that there is a special quilting thread for those who quilt left-handed but she doesn't carry it in her shop. What is she talking about?

[Mom3]

I'm sitting here trying not to fall off my chair.... LOL

First of all, there is no such thing.

Second of all I think your sister should find a different LQS to shop.

There is NOTHING special about a lefty sewing anything - other than 'we' do it left handed. Sure there are lefty sissors but EVERYTHING else is the same for a lefty as it is for a righty. All the tools are the same (other than possibly sissors) and we may lay out / cut our fabric from a different angle but the end result is still the same.

What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. Thread is thread.

Tell your sister to find another place to shop.

LOL

Shari

[jaciqltznok]

I'm sitting here trying not to fall off my chair.... LOL

First of all, there is no such thing.

Second of all I think your sister should find a different LQS to shop.

There is NOTHING special about a lefty sewing anything - other than 'we' do it left handed. Sure there are lefty sissors but EVERYTHING else is the same for a lefty as it is for a righty. All the tools are the same (other than possibly sissors) and we may lay out / cut our fabric from a different angle but the end result is still the same.

What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. Thread is thread.

Tell your sister to find another place to shop.

LOL

Shari

oh my....of course SHE did not carry it, though she has several people who could sure use it..ehehhehe
honestly...even my left handed sister laughed at that one! She uses scissors and her rotary right handed though...

[mjsylvstr]

I'm sitting here trying not to fall off my chair.... LOL

First of all, there is no such thing.

Second of all I think your sister should find a different LQS to shop.

There is NOTHING special about a lefty sewing anything - other than 'we' do it left handed. Sure there are lefty sissors but EVERYTHING else is the same for a lefty as it is for a righty. All the tools are the same (other than possibly sissors) and we may lay out / cut our fabric from a different angle but the end result is still the same.

What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. Thread is thread.

Tell your sister to find another place to shop.

LOL

Shari

there are rotary cutters specifically for lefties.....a friend just purchased one and said that it is WONDERFUL.

[Rose_P]

... What your sister's LQS said is, in my mind, equivalent to saying a lefty needs a left handed iron. Pooh! An iron is an iron. ...

LOL

Shari

Yes, but not too long ago there were irons that were designed so that you could make the cord go out either from the left or the right as needed. These days they've gotten more clever and have it exit center back, at least on the one I happen to have in view. Oddly, I have a hand mixer that has the cord come out on the left, which is not so handy for me. I solved the problem by threading it through the handle to the right, and I guess the same could be done with an iron, but I'm pretty sure that if my iron was like that it would bug me. The first few inches of the cord on the older irons were supported with a firm rubber tube to help prevent the cord from going under the iron.

The twist on the thread will alter the tendency of the thread to kink and knot while you're hand sewing, and intuitively I think I can see where the idea came from that a lefty would need a different twist, but it's surely bunk. If you consider that you can hand sew in either direction just by turning the fabric, there's no way the thread could be any different no matter who is propelling it.

[Scissor Queen]

There is left and right twist threads (Z twist and S twist) but they're not specifically for right or left handed use. That shop owner is real confused.

[Holice]

left handed thread obviously is made for the special "left hand needles"..........laughing along with the rest of you.

[ghostrider]

Think of the money to be made with this idea if it takes off!! Left hand pins all the way up to left hand sewing machines!

[Mom3]

Think of the money to be made with this idea if it takes off!! Left hand pins all the way up to left hand sewing machines!

Now THERE is a funny 'lefty story' - My dear departed (very loving to everyone) MIL was left handed. She sewed (kind of). Instead of placing her fabric so the seam would be on the right side of the sewing machine needle, she placed it so the seam was on the left side of the sewing machine needle. I tried to correct her (I'm a lefty too) but alas there was no changing her method.

Shari

[Tartan]

I can't see that thread wound differently on the spool or woven differently would benefit left handed quilters. There is a way you are supposed to take it off the spool for right handed quilting so the the thread twists less, BUT for left handed quilters....they could just use the other end of the thread to put through the needle eye.