New Beginnings and handedness

 Hi, I'm blogging as RuthieMae's Stitch Cottage. I now have the time and means to explore my love of different kinds of needlework, specifically: Thread Crochet, Embroidery, and some kinds of quilting, like Applique. This blog is a journal, of sorts, for my renewed commitment to explorations in needlework. 

I've loved making little things since I was a little girl. I made sock puppets and sewed shell beads onto scraps of fabric while sitting in the floor of my mother's sewing room. Those are among my earliest memories.

When I was around 8, I learned crochet from my maternal Grandmother. I'm kind of left handed, but switch back and forth on some things. For a long time that was called being Ambilateral instead of Ambidextrous. Now they are calling it Handedness Confusion. That's very amusing, because I've always had to figure out which hand does which task the best and it was sometimes very confusing. :) So, I was sitting on the floor by Grandma's chair, struggling with left-handed crochet. Grandma, who raised 9 children, and was great at observing children, had noticed that I often switched back and forth between hands, leaned down from her own crochet chair and said, "Ruthie, Why don't you try the other hand?"      It worked like a charm. I'm a right handed crocheter. I tend to embroider with my right hand, but sometimes switch back and forth. We will see how I hand wise on Hand Applique. So if you're left handed or unsure of which hand might work best for you, consider trying different ways of stitching and see what works best for you. We're all wired differently. :) 

I'm looking forward to documenting and sharing my journey.