Lefty Artisan Interview #48- Stitchnlove

Lefty Artisan Interview #48 is with

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade stitchnlove.etsy.com

1. Biographical info:
Hello! I am Christie of Stitch’N Love Boutique on Etsy and Artfire. I also have Stitch’N Love Pets on both venues that I am currently working on stocking. If that wasn’t enough, I am the proud momma to six kids of a blended family. Yep, call us the Brown Bunch if you want, but we like the Brown Six Pack much better. Before the last two were born, I was a kindergarten teacher but now I am a Work At Home Mom that wants to be taken seriously. So what if my work attire is what I went to sleep in the night before, or that I don’t put on make-up everyday. I bust my booty everyday taking care of my kids and running a tiny business from my home. I sew children’s clothing and starting to work into adult clothing too, I also make all kinds of accessories for children and adults. Every once in a while, I will make a quilt or blanket. I have always been creative but in the last year, I have just let my creativity go wild. I think it’s starting to pay off. Oh yeah, I tend to be scatter-brained.

2. What are your first memories of being left-handed?
Sitting in third grade learning how to write in cursive. Back then, we had to do these exercises with the paper and pencil and circles: round and round the paper ‘til all the lead from the pencil is on the paper and the side of your hand was discolored from going over? Well, we had to put the paper in the correct “position” by putting the top corner (left) of the paper to our nose and the bottom (right) to out bellies. Mine was the only one that went in the opposite direction. I knew then that I was special.

3. What was the hardest thing about growing up left-handed?
Being told in school that I was going to have a hard time learning anything. Whoever came up with this left handed scissors was a moron. They don’t work. I use all scissors with both my hands just fine.

4. Are you left-footed?
You mean, do I have two left feet? Sometimes I think so. And while I am thinking about it, why is having two left feet mean you can’t dance? I have been told that I am an okay dancer, but I have never taken long term formal dancing instruction. But yes, I do start out walking on my left foot.

5. How does being left-handed affect your craft or artwork?
Do you have to use special tools, different brushes, etc.? Do you have adjust your product for right or left-handed people? When I make my hair bows, I have to think about how I am attaching the bow to be worn, yes. Do I use special tools? Heck no.

6. Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets, was left-handed. Does this change how you feel about Kermit and/or Miss Piggy?
I knew I always liked Kermit! Miss Piggy can be a little over the top, but then again, she’s a talking pig. I wonder why he made the girl a pig… hmmmmmm

7. If you had a sledgehammer, sixty seconds and total immunity, which of the three things would you demolish first:

a) all of the ink pens anchored to the right side of every bank teller's window
b) every left-handed school desk per thirty-five right-handed school desks
c) all of the spooky voices in your head that sound like this, "Well, I'd love to teach you how crochet, knit, stitch, play the piano, hop scotch, but you're a lefty, and I'm not, and I just don't know to do that..."

I would have to say B. I don’t know about anyone else, but they only had those in the high school when I grew up. By the time that they were available, I had learned how to adapt and not stand out. I also took much pleasure in seeing right handed people trying to sit in those things.

8. The following people are left-handed: Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Benjamin Franklin, Pablo Picasso, Jay Leno, Richard Simmons, Judy Garland, Paul McCartney, Michelangelo, Oprah Winfrey, Marie Curie, John McCain, Carol Burnett, Ruth Buzzi, Goldie Hawn, Angelina Jolie, Cloris Leachman, Marilyn Monroe, Ross Perot. Which one of these people makes you most want to back out of this interview right now?
Most of these people are cool, but I would have to say two of the Presidential candidates. I won’t say which two. I am a Southerner so that may narrow it down for anyone. The only other person up there that truly gives left-handers a bad name is Angelina. Forget about the foreign adoptions, kissing your own BROTHER in public like that? I mean, come on, what you do in your own home is your own business…..


9. Write your own question and I'll answer it. The question must start out like this: Dear LHM Blogstress, ....? Dear LHM Blogstress, which left-hander named in the previous question would you rather take a chance with piranha then be left on a tiny deserted island with?
John McCain. He has untreated PTSD, and he needs help. I don't want to be in any dire situation with him. I also live in the south, lol.

10. How thrilled are you to be featured in a blog where only other lefties will be featured? Please exaggerate profusely, and if you can do it in a foreign language, I'll give you extra credit. Merci, merci, merci!!!! The honor is too great. Who knew that choosing one hand over the other would get me on a blog?


11. Take a bow.
Now, should that be left over right, or right over left? Oops, did my crown tip a bit?

Thanks for that fabulous interview, stitchnlove! Keep stitching!