Left vs Right Handed Knitting, Stockings & Christmas Pajamas 🎄 Vlogmas 11

[@KristinMoran]

I'm left-handed. My mom got me my own scissors when I was in elementary school, because the classrooms never had enough lefty scissors. When I learned to crochet (from books), I made the conscious decision to learn with my hook in my right hand, so I wouldn't have to mess with reversing patterns for lefty's. I have knitted a bit, but it's been years. My grandma originally taught my sister & me. She was left-handed but wrote with her right hand because her school made her change. I don't remember which way our knit stitches went.

[@carolineritchey8139]

😂 I was looking down while knitting, sipping on some juice, and I hear you say- "this puppy's holding Santa's flesh..."😂😂😂 I almost spat my juice!

[@prairietn1]

I'm a left-handed knitter taught by my right-handed Nonna. She faced me, and I followed the mirror image of what she did. I taught my daughter this way.

[@SusanPChild]

My righty mom taught lefty me by mirror image.

[@elijahpascal3545]

I'm a left handed knitter and honestly it just means that I do NOT even attempt to do any complicated knitting patterns especially if they are written. Just mirroring everything seems like a really clever way to resolve the issue.

[@bcase5328]

My Mother Knitted "Backwards". I think some kids might teach themselves to knit by watching others, and in the process mirror the knitting.

[@ecpetty]

Fellow left-handed knitter here! I taught myself to knit by mirroring from books! Luckily around that time they started publishing beginner books that included left-handed instructions, so I could confirm I was doing it “right.” I DO knit “backwards,” though. It hasn’t often caused me issues, but sometimes can trip me up like when I’m knitting a left-hand mitten with instructions for the right hand. 😅

[@silverwitch6863]

I’m ambidextrous. I write with my right hand, because when I was kid in school, we started writing with fountain pens… at first I used whichever hand I was in the mood for. But with fountain pens, you smear the ink when writing left handed. So I slowly preferred my right hand for writing. For knitting I can do both. In the kitchen, I’m definitely using both hands without one dominant over the other.

[@resourcedragon]

@@silverwitch6863: The way I hold the pen, ink pens work well for me as a left hander. Biros are another story. Even although my hand and biro mirror those of a right-hander, the fact that I'm _pushing_ from left to right, as opposed to a right-hander who is _pulling_ from left to right, ends up causing that classic left-handers' ball point pen damage that results in * *SPLOTS* * on the paper.

[@KathleenStidham]

Doesn't matter the topic or the time of day, when I can make time to watch your videos my mood improves. THANK YOU!

[@jw8223]

My gramma was a leftie. My mom was, too, but then school forced her to learn to be a rightie, so now she’s ambidextrous. Both of them crocheted left-handed, and that’s how they taught me. I crochet left-handed, but literally everything else is with my right….I don’t know why. My husband is a lefty and my kids are mostly righties. I have one son who might be ambidextrous. As for the pajamas, I almost got that fabric for Christmas pajamas this year!! My favorite pajamas are comfy ones. 😅 basically, it depends on the day and how my body is feeling, but there’s always something on.

[@valeriebishop561]

GRANDY!!!! love it! Flannel in the winter hands down!

[@mauraocroinin8760]

Yes, definitely left-handed. I am a left handed knitter and patterns always end up the opposite of the pattern. It's fun!

[@juliajs1752]

I'm left-handed, but learned to knit the right-handed way and can't change my brain to go the other way. But I do admire everyone who goes through the hassle of reversing patterns for their own style! For me it's not a big difference, I move my left hand mostly and the right hand is stationary, but I don't knit backwards.

[@jennybowman1276]

Flannel button up top and long pants in winter, and jersey top and shorts in summer ❤

[@JJ-tf3mb]

lefty here, and self taught knitter (ty youtube!) when I first started knitting I did a mirror version of what I saw in the youtube videos because I'm a lefty and I thought it was fine. Turns out I was twisting every single stitch and only found out when I started learning lace knitting and my YOs were not YOs at all but instead twisted closed. Thanks to some lovely people on ravelry we all figured out what was going on and from that point forward I started knitting in reverse, the right handed way. And I've been knitting like that ever since. I do still treasure my first few knitting projects that are all twisted, they are special to me and a lot of them were even done with my first hand spun yarn and hand dyed yarns too (I learned all of the things at the same time).

[@joolsa8346]

Absolute favourite night attire is a calf length, long sleeved nightdress made from a heavy (ish) t-shirt type knitted fabric in a light pink colour bought from Landsend over 20 years ago! It really should have been retired at least a couple of years ago but I love it, so I keep wearing it, frayed edges, holey bits and all!!!

[@neiljesus7131]

I am not a spinner or weaver, but I love learning everything on this channel❤ Weird info: my high school Latin teacher (yes, I have aleays been a nerd) told me that the origin of the Greek myth of the Golden Fleece was because in Colchis (modern day Georgia) they put sheep fleeces in streams to collect gold dust. Merry Vlogmas!

[@JillianEve]

I had never heard that story before! Fascinating!

[@deborahspins2909]

Love your videos Evie ❤. I watch them over and over.

[@robinmitchell4721]

When I could knit circular things with double pointed needles, one day on the bus the needles kept sliding out of the knitting. So I started knitting on the inside of the item & the needles stayed in place. So I guess you could say I knit inside out.

[@Smidgeon-pigeon]

My late grandmother was a lefty! She tried to teach me to knit when i was around 7, but because i have always been strongly right-hand-dominant, I had so much trouble and gave up. I later taught myself to knit continental style, right-handed, from a book. So I figured out in retrospect that she did knit from left to right, which isn't how most righties knit.

[@MissMeganBeckett]

My favourite sort of pajamas for lounging around the house are a stretchy knit tank top and a pair of baggy pajama pants in a soft material either flannel or knit.

[@mindyalbright4491]

I used to go with PJs, but now I would just as soon have a warm, cozy nightgown.

[@drewadrawing]

The joys of getting to revisit prior skills! It's so fun that you have an archive of your projects to look back on. I'm excited to see the angora be revisited!

[@Intentionallivinghawaii]

As a child in the late 60s early 70s I was always told that I couldn’t be taught to knit because I was left-handed and the teacher was right handed (my mother) but that is a very right hand-focused mindset that left-handed people would have to do everything with our dominant hand, which is mostly untrue for left-handed people. I knit in the normal way, but I am also very comfortable with knitting backwards as it is really handy when doing heel flaps and short rows of a heel turn. It can be a really handy tool to be able to knit in both directions.

[@creepycutiecrafty]

I have a friend who learned crochet from her gran. Gran was left-handed, so my friend found it much easier to learn because she could mirror her gran across a table! Funnily enough, when I started drop-spinning, I mirrored yourself and other folks on YT. I’m sorta-kinda ambidextrous, so it was awkward but not so awkward that I twigged that I was using the wrong hand! 😂 It got much easier when I swapped hands though! I’m loving all the knitty projects! They all look so cozy and fun! All these creative projects seem to reproduce when you’re not looking, don’t they (as I give my own to-do pile the side eye…)

[@neiljesus7131]

Thanks!

[@JillianEve]

Thank you so much, fiber friend! 🥰🥰🥰

[@kjlamb6480]

Oh your cables are wonderful... And i immediately thought of fingerless mits (it looked like the heel wasnt worked yet).. then you can show off those beautiful cables! While spinning and keep your hands warmer when you are spinning out in the woods. Pj's. Summer it's a tank top and panties. Winter long sleeve t and leggings.

[@deniseengel1451]

Winter is classic button top and pants pajamas preferably in flannel. Summer is short sleeved “dress” type nightgown in cotton.

[@toooldtotap]

I like loose bottoms with elastic and oversized pullover top for pajamas in the winter. Sleeveless top and boxer style bottoms in the summer.

[@sonjanordahl3158]

Eve, never feel guilty for having multiple projects going. I have 3 spinning wheels and 1 spindle. Currently I have 3 different spins started. I have 6 looms, 3 weaves going ish. One is a weave for me that I started this January. It keeps getting bumped to the bottom of the rotation because the rest are gifts and mine can wait until later. And if I live to be 120 years old, I won't have put a dent in all the projects I want to do. But I still keep designing more, because it is fun and exciting.

[@cinmyn]

All that, and a family too, you are something else. The fabric looks like a swedish design, If it's cotton it would make a cute apron. I Like the pj's too. You are the only one I know that makes everything from spinning the yarn to weaving, knitting or dying and just doing the whole item. I'd like to know how you got started and how long these things take. I imagine you walking around knitting, while you're doing 2 or 3 other things. I used to watch my 70 plus mother in law knitting socks, she hardly looked, she was watching TV and had knit so many socks and sweaters for her family it was second nature. I miss her. She was one that made for necessity for her family. I admire you honor that and remind us that these things people used to do because there was no factory. Thank you

[@jayneterry8701]

Im a lefty but learned to knit from my right hand grandmother. Since each lefty is unique i would stand behind herleft shoulder watch her and then adapt. 😊

[@allie9855]

I'm a left-handed knitter that was taught by 2 right-handed knitters. I think the only way I differ from my right-handed people is that I hold my working yarn in my left hand. I don't usually do a lot of specific patterns, so I've never noticed if I change those or not. Learning to crochet though, I sat across from my grandmother and mirrored her movements.

[@lizbongrav2108]

It's so funny that you're making pajamas (& asking about them) because I just made myself a long flannel nightshirt with side gores, based on medieval shift construction (very simple, rectangular, with very little fabric wasted), and it's my favorite thing ever. Super comfy and warm.

[@redaleta]

I first learned to knit in the late 70's early 80's from a book in my local library. The book said nothing about turning the work, so I didn't turn the work and knitted with the left hand doing most of the work. For the life of me I could not figure out what I was doing wrong. I did eventually take an in-person class that answered all the questions I had that were not answered by the library book.

[@moongazerbunny]

I'm a lefty and I do knit "backwards" from left to right! When I was really little I didn't understand the need to turn your work and would confuse myself by just going back and forth on one side, and later when I realized you were supposed to turn your work I just picked the direction that was most comfortable for me. I tend to knit charts starting on the left side instead of on the right, and I'm also a combination knitter so I have to be careful with things like SSKs and K2TOGs because the way my stitches are situated aren't always in the right direction. I've been doing this long enough that making adjustments for myself has gotten very intuitive for me, but adjustments are still necessary!

[@nancymorgen1640]

I'm a mleft-hander and had a difficult time learning to knit. I hold everything the same way as a right-handed person, but I move the left needle, where most people move the right needle. I follow the pattern normally.

[@arcanepriest]

I'm also ambidextrous, and when I'm doing charted colorwork, I don't turn my work. I knit right-handed right to left, and left-handed left to right, so the right side is always facing me, and that's just easier for me to follow the chart that way. For stranded colorwork, I'll knit cottage/lever with one color in my right hand, and continental with the other color in my left hand.

[@theresac7366]

I like the throw over your head type gown pajamas!

[@gwenbevan8050]

Lefty here. When I learned to knit, my Mum tried to teach me the way everyone else knits. It didn't work. So she sat me down opposite to her and worked purl stitches and had me follow the tips of her needles. That worked -- and now I knit mirror. Confuses the daylights out of most knitters when they see it, because it looks like I'm knitting 'backwards.'

[@wendy1453]

Lefty here---I pick with my left hand. My largest challenges are that when I use interchangable needles they tend to unscrew themselves while I knit and I have to stop to tighten them up every now and again when I feel my yarn begin to catch. My other hurdle is in trying to interpret patterns. I sit down with a pattern before I start knitting to work out the changes I need to make. It can be particularly vexing if I am trying a new skill the first time. It has prevented me from even trying some patterns. Yarn can untwist at times, as well. I find that if I use a yarn that is spun and plied "backwards" it eliminates the unraveling issue

[@bagladysendtheferalspinner3761]

I'm left handed. I have left-handed knitted for close to 50 years. I knit from left to right on the needles. On a chart, I start from the left side and work across to the right. Most things turn out in the mirror image.

[@terryduepner]

Also a left-handed knitter. Usually works out fine, but I have to be careful with graphed patterns. I also have to pay attention to ssk and k2 together, as they slant the opposite ways when I knit. However, as long as I do this, it all good.

[@virninjawilliams7251]

I'm a lefty, and I often do simple patterns where it doesn't matter, but I've also modified patterns, and I make my own pretty often too

[@christineborgatti3760]

Winter pajamas for me, sweatshirt for top and flannel with elastic for bottoms.

[@kamahskreations1260]

My favourite winter jammies is a long nightie, flannel or knit fabric, I don’t mind. But right now it’s HOT! So cotton nightdress for sure, sleeveless and short.

[@TheMagnoliaWitch]

As a functionally ambidextrous individual, I first taught myself to knit going right to left because that's what the instruction booklet said to do, and then a woman in my old knitting circle taught a bunch of us how to knit left to right in order to speed up our knitting because we wouldn't have to keep turning the needles around to purl. It makes it easier to teach my imps, too, as my eldest is ambi like me and my youngest is definitively a leftie. 😂 (As for pajamas, I actually can't wear them to sleep because the pants tangle around my legs and cut off circulation, so my criteria for pajamas is "can I pull them on in a hurry when I wake up and shuck them off easily to go to bed", which usually means pullovers rather than buttons.)

[@queenofroses09]

As a lefty, I just knit mirror images. Crochet as well.

[@tessluhplays]

I was inspired by your stocking so found some colorwork stockings with gingerbread folk since that is my theme. I am doing one for each grandchild. Thank you for the inspiration. In regards to your cabled sock, I was making a beaded and lace sock that I realized would never fit so I bound off and it is now a tall cup cozy!

[@thumpr1]

No pressure, No pressure... too funny... know the feeling!!!

[@resourcedragon]

Nutty and alpaca? Looks gorgeous and sounds like heaven! Lefties and knitting: a lot of us (me included) learn to knit the standard right handed way. That is how I do about 99.9% of my knitting. So I form new stitches, whether knit *_or_* purl, on the right needle and work right to left. Being one of those people who can do mirror writing with either hand and/or upside down, etc, I can also do left-handed continental knitting. (Left handed continental _purling_ still defeats me and I can survive without being able to manage it.) The thing about the left-handed continental knitting (at least when you've started off dong regular right-handed knitting) is that it ends up more of an "untwisted eastern" knitting style. Despite that, it is useful for things like bobbles and button holing, where I find turning the entire work around to do 3 stitches too aggravating. EDIT: I learnt to spin on a wheel in the standard, right-handed (and right footed) way. I swapped over to the left foot for treadling when I broke my right knee, and although I can now once again treadle comfortably with my right foot, I find I tend to just go with the left foot. Recently, I've started trying to spin with a Turkish spindle and left-handed feels much more natural to me, so that's what I'm doing. I prefer night dresses, lighter weight, short sleeved for summer and more comprehensive for winter if possible. In the very hottest weather I may sleep in the altogether, in cold weather I'll probably add a cardigan or jumper over the night dress. This was another absolutely delightful episode of Vlogmas, thank you.

[@oboesmith]

I started out ambidextrous and only settled into being left handed truly in 5th grade. As a result, I learned to knit both ways, without having to turn my work or purl for knitting stockinette on straight needles. Now as an adult, knitting dedicated left handed, I definitely find I follow most asymmetrical patterns backwards. I usually forget about it, until my right handed mom or grandmother ask for help with their knitting.

[@spiritwaterwolf]

I'm a lefty, and it had been described that I knit backwards LOL... It is still knitting but you knit from left to right, all while the finished stitches slide to the left needle. I hold the yarn that I'm knitting with in the left hand and throw with the left, picking up the stitches on the right and then moving the stitches to the left

[@Mads_13]

I'm left handed and my knit stitches go from left to right. I've heard it called mirror knitting, but I might be wrong. So if I want my increases, decreases, or color work to look as intended I have to mirror the pattern. 😊

[@1st1anarkissed]

Long johns and a tee or tank and boxers depending on season and always undies too for that double clean barrier.😂 I use pyjama bottoms as house trousers. Cheap, comfy, can wash easily, can get ruined painting or scrubbing without tears.

[@AshBraCounCur]

I am with you on favourite pajamas. Sleep tuxedo all the way!

[@Meredith36]

Happy volgmas! 🎄 Happy creating 💚🧶🩷

[@kimwillis380]

Those spindles are beautiful!

[@Treasacello]

I'm left handed, and I realized early I had to really pay attention to charts and stuff like that to get patterns to come out correctly.

[@lindapankhurst4513]

For a stretchier cable sock please find on Ravelry the More Fun than Cables sock pattern. It is my go to pattern for socks now. My husband wears a 9.5 G shoe and I do his socks from this pattern, with two extra cable repeats, and they are perfect…..and stretchy.

[@Ocean-Gecko]

My kindergarten teacher said the exact same thing to me! “Just pick a hand!” Everyone had previously told me I was left-handed, so that’s what I went with. But I 100% swap between both hands for almost everything except writing.

[@jillzimmerman2750]

I'm left handed and I knit the standard way! Though I am not great at translating a left-right flip when reading or hearing instructions so anything more complicated than "throw the ball" or anything like that I tend to do right handed, but I've never felt that knitting was something that asked so much more of one hand or the other that I would benefit from doing it "the left-handed way"

[@1st1anarkissed]

My european elders knitted back and forth with the front always facing. Not in the round, and they did not flip the fabric. Yqrn was held in the leading hand for quick pick. I can knit in this way but find flipoing or in the round less mindful, so easier.

[@SocksnGreys]

Nightgowns, all the way. Preferably with a pocket somewhere.

[@jacquelinem6562]

Left handed knitter here. . yup backwards lol - my left hand holds the needle with completed stitches and the right holds stitches to be worked. So I knit left to right

[@ritsuska]

i love men's elastic band pants with plaid designs. theyre thicker fabric and just feel so cozy. i just pair a t shirt or a tank with them as a top

[@sherrieanderson2524]

I like wearing sleep shirts, but if it is real cold I wear polar fleece night gowns.

[@nz-nz]

Was gonna say “But But… you HAVE angora yarn!!!! (I remember that video!) Yeeees 👍👍👍👍👍

[@JillianEve]

Lol, you remembered! 😄 All the yarn left from that project is blue, so I'll still need to spin more. 💙

[@denniseleismer8965]

You got your hair cut!(cute) I had to go back through the days to see when? Anyway It is nice to have a new style. Your doing great with your Vlogmas, no pressure year. I am on board. Keep it simple sister.

[@janstoll8881]

I just started knitting with a flatbed machine, but I am right handed. I like a pant or shorts and button top with a pocket ( need some place to put my insulin pump). Shiny on the outside and flannel on the inside.

[@karatstixraw]

My favorite pajama turned out to be a cotton summer dress from old navy with shoulder ties that I bought on sale in 2 different prints and is mid calf length, so comfy! I like pull on sweater knit lounge pajamas when its cold. Love your vlogmas!

[@jovicbryg]

Hi! I wear an extra large t-shirt. Legs on pajamas tend to keep bunching up my legs. I love your videos and am still working on my dried flax.

[@blackhellebore89]

Left handed, flicker/parlour style and I knit and read patterns/charts like the majority of the world. I'll add I found it difficult to figure it out from KZbin - but sitting beside my mum (not in front of her but shoulder to shoulder) I picked it up in an evening. I've always had the attitude that I don't have to do things "left handed" I'll always try to learn the standard way and then adapt if it doesn't work. I play violin and guitar "right handed". You can't play in orchestra or ensembles when you face the wrong way!

[@carlacrazymom]

My aunts and mom would exchange a pattern and copy it by hand. the last person to get the pattern got the original. your grandmother may have just wanted it to face that direction to go with others that would be displayed alongside it and drew it that way by hand.

[@CheapEngineerCrafts]

I just finished my first colorwork piece - the Arne and Carlos KAL 2024 stocking. Need to work on my tension

[@rebeccasourpuss]

I taught myself to knit backwards on a sweater project with large swaths of stockinette. I would knit a row from right to left in the usual way, right-hand dominant, then without turning the work I knit back from left to right with my left hand being the dominant one. It's kind of fun actually!

[@hannzapie]

that's how I've been working on knitting backwards as well, except for me it's a shawl/stole project. long stretches of stockinette are great for working on techniques!

[@wendycrook7319]

I like lightweight jersey nightgowns

[@dawnmoriarty9347]

I am ambidextrous and I think this is why I struggled with knitting. I was always told that I was holding things wrongly but the way people wanted me to knit HURT. Oddly enough, as an adult, when I'm sketching, I have to decide in advance which hand I'm using and stick with it. Otherwise the perspective lines get skewed

[@raingremlin078]

I'm left handed and I struggled a lot to learn to knit as my mother and grandmothers are right handed. Before I gave it up as I found it too difficult, I did try some colourwork and I found that it came off the needles reversed for me too.

[@Addysfearless]

I like nightgowns in a style in which revolutions were once fought. Sleeves are better than no sleeves but yeah, to hell with pants!

[@cinmyn]

You are amazing, and must be fast. Just that you raised rabbits, all the process of making angora fibers? And spinning it into yarn and then knitting it. It's amazing, I love it, I have always been that kind of person, but sticking with it and doing it all. I do well just to knit things. Love your work, thanks so much. How do you do it all?

[@katewarburton4092]

Bit late to the party! I'm a lefty, I knit right handed because I was taught by a righty; however, I can knit stockinette flat without turning my work, which I guess is knitting backwards? I recently discovered that i crochet left-handed, which is why I sometimes struggle with crochet charts

[@weavingrainbow9063]

I'm ambidextrous, with right dominance. I knit Continental with the yarn feeding from my left hand. In the winter, I like sweatpants and a sweatshirt over a T-shirt. In the summer, lightweight cotton pants and a T-shirt, sometimes shorts.

[@neiljesus7131]

My cousins' Grandmother knitted my cousins and me a similar stocking in in the early 80's- Angora beard + jingle bells😂. Majority of yarn must be acrylic because it is still here

[@ApplesandPeanutButter]

Lefty😊 I knit mirrored continental, stitches are worked with my left hand needle. I hold crochet hooks in my left hand too. If a pattern is symmetrical, I read the right side rows left to right. The main adjustme ts I make are to reverse directional decrease stitches and if tbe pattern says "right front " I know that for me it is the left front. Pet peeve is when knitting tutorials say "right needle/ left needle". I would much prefer the person use "dominant hand/ nondominant hand". It would make things much easier for lefties. My go-to winter weather pajamas are a set of mens thermal underwear in red, white, and green Christmas stripes. They are a perfect weight for my menopausal temperature issues. The set was on clearance, $3, and have POCKETS!

[@CarrieCraftGeek]

If you learned to knit while facing your Grandy you'd be mirroring her and she'd be knitting left to right while you knit right to left. . And the chart would get reversed if she still read the color chart right to left. (I've done this with bead charts beading left to right, and reading right to left.) Third option is knitting inside out (which I've also done)

[@apfelsingail333]

Left-handed knitter here! It's not that big a deal, but I struggle to follow charted patterns since they turn into mirror images. I usually don't feel like flipping them around. I find most written patterns are fine to follow- a M1L is a M1L, for the most part. And there are a few really good left-handed knitting tutorials on YT (Bill Souza is amazing!) that help a lot with specific stitches.

[@mizzdawn7914]

Firmly a nightgown person here. Can't abide trousers in bed. I like woven fabric and have a selection of sleeve lengths for different weather. Oh, and I make my own, nice ones are too hard to find to buy and easy to make.

[@kayladernier1314]

Lefties that knots backwards here, for colorwork I just leave patterns be and my images face the opposite direction. cables get a little more complicated. I try to stick to patterns that are in the round, cardigans can be confusing because they have a left and right. My daughter is right handed, I taught her right handed and she knits left handed 🤔, younger daughter knits right handed.

[@jaimyhereygers4462]

i am mainly left handed, but learned most things, like knitting/crocheting, but also playing musical instruments or idk using your computer mouse righthandedly. although i do feel like, especially for crocheting i do not "move the needle through the fabric" but i "move the fabric around the needle" so i still work with my left hand. but i hold the needle in my right. if that makes sense lol

[@lefty_knits]

Hi, left-handed knitter checking in :) I knit left to right on the right side. I sometimes say I "knit backwards" as an explanation -- though I think people are more aware that left-handed/mirror knitters exist than they were when I started 20+ years ago, or even when I joined knitting social media, so I do it less. For following charts, it depends on the pattern -- I do usually follow it left to right (RS) and right to left (WS), if it's asymmetric, and just ignore the written instructions. Colorwork isn't too bad, but cables took some trial and error. I think lefties in general are often better at flipping around instructions and demonstrated actions to fit their hand dominance because it's so often something we have to do. And often lefties are less strongly left-hand dominant than righties are right-hand dominant, in a way that doesn't seem entirely just socialized from watching right-handed folks all the time (I'm also a scientist, so it's something I have been curious and read about a fair bit)!

[@GreyishBobbi]

I like loose shorts and a soft tshirt :D

[@shelleyfry]

Up front, I can draw a circle with one hand while simultaneously drawing a square with the other hand. Apparently it’s not that common, so my brain… bit mad. So, I knit right handed - taught that way - took me a while to learn, but I’m grand with it now. Not sure I could knit left handed. I never learned how to crochet because, as I realised this year, I am a left handed crocheter. So I’ve learned basic crochet now. But I play the piano, type crazy fast, and can write with both hands - although left is better. The mystery of our wiring.

[@RueRiposte]

I wear either shorts/t-shirt pj's in the summer and "sweat suit" type pj's in the winter. I like elastic cuffs, so the legs don't ride up during the night and turn into shorts. I knit "backwards", but not l-r backwards, apparently I k/p backwards. Will need to sort that out one day...maybe... 😊

[@misspenguinsupreme9923]

I can knit "typewriter style," I can do back and forth, continental one way and I guess English going back left to right. With lace I just have to use my left hand and my right hand stays still mostly

[@rachelsnyder1772]

My pjs lately are a tank top and pj pants

[@music85076]

Left handed knitter here! As far as my experience with colorwork like the Santa stocking, normally I would read the grid from left to right, instead of right to left like a right-handed knitter would. BUT if the pattern was written out instead of charted, and followed as written, I think a left-handed knitter would end up knitting the reverse like the stocking you have! I don't feel like I knit "backwards," except when I'm learning something new and I have to mirror a right-handed person's video. And flip when they say "left needle" and "right needle." That can be tricky. Loving your videos this vlogmas, cheers!

[@davidkish9829]

Button up front, and elastic waist pjs

[@jenniferknowles4238]

I'm a lefty but maybe more towards the ambidextrous side of the handedness spectrum; I knit continental but in the "right handed" way. As for pajamas, I prefer stretchy jersey knits like bike shorts and tees!

[@rebeccaboswell4997]

Those puppy bobbins are even cuter with yarn on them!

[@RandomAFP]

I tend to go with pyjama bottoms but an ordinary t-shirt, but all the bottoms I have at the moment are either too small now (husband will insist on feeding me!) or they have overlocked seams which intermittently drive me insane. So one of the backburner projects is making a load of linen ones with nice flat enclosed seams. Currently though I'm also on a sock-knitting spree. Well. I knitted one and a half socks then got distracted by an Idea, so now I'm at the experimental stage of trying to knit double-layer (has that got a name?) toe-up socks...

[@kathywinn2617]

Finally somebody else who mentions being ambidextrous! The things that I was taught to do, I do right handed and the things I took up on my own, I do left handed. You mentioned scissors but worse than that, back in the day all the irons were right handed so if you ironed with your left hand you could end up ironing over the power cord! 🙂

[@JillianEve]

I never put that together and realized!!! That's why I would get confused at the ironing board and would switch from one side of the board to the other!

[@sherylyoung2007]

Yes, scissors are the worst for left handed people, sometimes painful. For ironing, I iron both left and right handed😂.

[@Vereynique]

@sherylyoung2007 my brother is left handed. His Daughters are right as am I. I went and got one pair if scissors from his basket on the side of fridge to cut paper. I struggled to cut on the line until I realized I had gotten his lefty scissors and not the girls righties

[@resourcedragon]

Those _bloody_ right-handed irons. I remember them. The ambidextrous cord just makes more sense, whether the user is is left or right handed. What would be even better is a robot that does the ironing for you. I hate ironing because I am so slow at it.

[@sherylyoung2007]

I knit left handed, so my knitting is probably backwards. I has for help once, and was asked if I was knitting backwards. So, my knitting is on my left needle. 😊

[@therealhellkitty5388]

I write words right handed but sign ASL left handed…also have heterochromia one teal and one blue eye. My father was left handed and taught me to fish and cast that way. Left handedness feels natural to me although I am 70% RH dominant.