bidexterity
Dec. 9th, 2023 05:27 amvia https://ift.tt/Cx8Xobm
OK so yesterday I was cutting out fabric for the next project I’m working on. I’m still at my mother-out-law’s house, and Dude was traveling for work, so I was able to go feral and get up to mischief and so I had the entire dining room table covered in cutting mats and was using a rotary cutter.
I discovered to my astonishment that I cannot follow a line accurately with the rotary cutter held in my right hand. I was close but not quite in control.
I use scissors exclusively with my right hand. I don’t even own left-handed scissors so I have no idea what my cutting skills would be like. I’ve certainly never practiced them. I decided in elementary school that lefty scissors were the worst, and never looked back.
I briefly suspected that I was just not good with a rotary cutter, but then I used it in my left hand and had no problem following the lines with good accuracy.
I can only write with my left hand. I’ve tried doing it with my right, and often mistakenly do so because I can’t tell left from right reliably. My right-handed handwriting is not only atrocious but also often backwards. I cannot tell this unless something makes me notice, however. Mostly, how slow it is to write. I don’t make this mistake often but when I am very distracted it does come up.
So I’m not like…. perfectly ambidextrous. I was trying to explain it in a
discord channel where I’d been talking about the sewing project, and I
said, sort of frustratedly, I’m not actually ambidextrous I’m like
whatever biphobes think bidexterity would be, to which the inimitable
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cacheth https://tmblr.co/MRy2YsWvd0yXN7L8ZIjdOlA replied, “it means both
your hands are sluts and not gay enough”
so that’s my new crafting slogan, anyway. BOTH my hands are TOO SLUTTY and NOT GAY ENOUGH, is the conclusion.
These not-gay-enough little slut hands did manage to cut out an entire set of pattern bits for the Sew Liberated Limestone Leggings, however, View A, 30" inseam, so we shall see over the next days whether I manage to get them assembled.
I also totally fucked up my hip/lower back crawling around on the floor to cut out a Cashmerette Avola slipdress on the bias, but I also discovered that I could totally get one out of 44" wide yardage, so silk’s back on the menu, boys! Someday my fat ass will own a silk slip. Someday. Once my hip goes back to normal and then I decide to fuck it up again. I don’t have a cutting mat of a size to work with this so at least I didn’t fuck shit up with the rotary cutter. (Your picture was not posted)
