Well after reading many sewing blogs where Gingher scissors were touted I decided to look into them. After stewing about spending some extra cash on them I decided to purchase their True Left-Hand Dressmaking Shears. These have the blades switched so the cutting line is visible to a lefty.
I was excited to open my box and see these beauties. They are beautiful and heavier than my other pair. However at first I couldn't cut with them! I was so confused and upset that they didn't help at all, but I kept trying to cut and suddenly I realized something. I was using them just like they were "right or left" scissors and that I needed to look at the side of the scissors, not over the top. Eureka!!!
I'm still not the greatest at cutting, but at least now I can see! Now if only I had paper cutting, and pinking shears that were left-handed I would be all set.
I'm a fellow lefty!! I have a supposedly left-handed pair of shears, but I still hate cutting. I also have an "ambidextrous" pair. I'll have to look at both of them more carefully later to see if I still have that problem you did. If so, it'll be nice to blame it on the scissors instead of on my lack of skills! (Honestly, if I can I prefer to just use a rotary cutter because of this lefty vs. righty nonsense...)
ReplyDeleteI know my scissor skills are still pretty weak. I'll blame that on learning to cut using righty scissors. :)
ReplyDeleteGingher actually makes a lefty rotary cutter but I don't know what the difference is from the righty version.