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Mommomjoann 06-21-2011 03:58 AM
You will be fine after your knee,it's good exercise for the knee to bend!!! Work it out!! Mine is great!!! Good luck!

lovedquilts 06-21-2011 04:03 AM
I am left handed and use my right foot to sew, just like driving a car

Just Me... 06-21-2011 04:12 AM
I use the button rather than the foot. Thought I was too much of a control freak to do it...but have found that I love it!

katkat1946 06-21-2011 04:17 AM
Just an aside - it's remarkable how much your cat looks like mine!!! Size-wise, coloring, hughe fluffy tail & all!

QuiltnNan 06-21-2011 04:23 AM
i'm a righty and am severely lefty challenged.

joysewer 06-21-2011 04:28 AM
Originally Posted by toomanycats
yes suzee, my brother has told me that all my life! he is also amadexerous (close on the spelling?)and switches in the middle of a letter. He had started out left handed in school and the grade school teacher said it was wrong and used to whack him across the nuckles with a ruler to make him write with his right hand. (this was in the early 50's.) she didn't do that anymore after dad went up there and set her straight.
Good for your dad!!!

moreland 06-21-2011 04:41 AM
Originally Posted by katesnanna
Originally Posted by toomanycats
Here is a curious question..... do right handed people use their right foot on the sewing machine peddle and do left handed people use their left? Just curious here. I am looking at having my right knee replaced and am playing around with using my left foot on the peddle and was wondering if using the left foot was a natural to some of you.
I'm a right hander but use my left foot. I was told by a quilt teacher that it was better for my back, sure was. Now it's just natural instinct. I've been doing it for about 7 years now.
It did feel strange at first but now I don't even notice.
In the last 8-10 years I decided to use my left foot so I could use the knee control that came with my Bernina--at first was a bit awkward but now is my preference, altho I can use either one.

DeeBooper 06-21-2011 04:50 AM
Originally Posted by toomanycats
Here is a curious question..... do right handed people use their right foot on the sewing machine peddle and do left handed people use their left? Just curious here. I am looking at having my right knee replaced and am playing around with using my left foot on the peddle and was wondering if using the left foot was a natural to some of you.
I am ambidextrous and I use both feet and/or both hands!!!

Buckeye Rose 06-21-2011 04:52 AM
I am right handed and use both feet at the same time! Using both seems to keep the pedal in one place and doesn't slide around.

Numa 06-21-2011 04:58 AM
Worked with 4-H kids for 25 years and found 2 left footed kids that simply could not use their right foot to sew.Everyone else used their right foot. I thread the machine with either hand however although I am right handed and use my right foot.


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