The article explores the significance of left-handedness within the author's family, showcasing shared experiences among her left-handed grandmothers, mother, and aunt, especially around crafting and gift-giving. Left-handed kitchen tools served as cherished tokens during Christmas. The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s, where left-handedness represented strength in motherhood. However, she gradually recognized her own right-handedness, leading to a poignant realization about family identity and personal differences among relatives.
Waiting for them under the tree in our sunny Pasadena living room might be left-handed oven mitts or can openers, kitchen gadgets too mundane to pass as gifts for righties, but treasures to the matriarchal quartet.
Left-handedness may have been the reason she never progressed beyond the basic garter stitch. Left-handed knitters, I would later learn, are sometimes forced to study themselves in the mirror to master more complicated stitches.
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