Hi Sara,
 SG> Thanks ever so much for your very generous offer of scissors and help
 SG> for a new young left handed seamstress.  I will ask whether she has
No problem; if she wants to learn, I'm as available as the computer to
help.
 SG> scissors and let you know.  I'll also have to get a better grip on
 SG> what problems she is having.  My friend said something about her not
 SG> being
 SG> able to take the pins out easily as she sews.  Generally one guides
 SG> the material through with the right hand.  As I said, I'll have to ask
I use both hands; the bulk of the material is fed thru on the left side
so it doesn't bunch up under the machine head.  I generally put my pins
in with the head facing the "open" side; the point aiming at the edge of
the material.  It's easy for a left handed person to remove them, just a
bit harder finding a convenient place to keep the pin box or cushion so
it's not covered with the fabric.  One tip:  I keep a wastebasket to my
left side so that all threads, bent pins, clippings, etc hit that right
off instead of the floor. (Well, most of them hit the wastebasket, some
do get on the floor.)
Catch you later,
Ruth
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