If I’m not thinking about it, I tie my crown knots clockwise. Since the direction I tie my crown knots is relevant to my current obsession http://www.knottynotions.com/gluck/corner-crown I started wondering if there was a correlation between preferred crowning direction and handedness.
Which way are you looking at the knot?
I am right handed and crown to the right.
Derek
Looking down at the knot from the top. If I’m crowning a sinnet, then the braid is usually held in front like a microphone, but to determine clockwise/counter clockwise, look down on the knot from above. Is that what you mean?
You miss my choice, as usual.
I am ambidextrious, and I use both ways round in/with both hands.
(If you make a next poll, please add other to the choices, for people like me who almost never fit in the answers given as options.)
Besides being ambidextrious, I am also (slightly) dyxlectic, and I found that people who are too, often also have no problems turning their direction of work or even the hand they work in, around.
Willeke
Ask and ye shall receive, Willeke. Although getting the “No preference” answer kinda defeats the purpose of the poll. 8)
Carol,
I think a lot of beginners tie their crowning the way they are taught.
Most people with little experience tie their crowning one way.
But people with many years of experience who often do involved crowning projects have learned both ways so well that they can not find a prefered way anymore, trained out of it.
If I hold the work in my fist, the working ends sticking out above the index finger, I loop the first end around my thumb and over the next, the last will go through the loop, (at which time I take out my thumb,) and this is the way I also teach beginners.
That means that mostly they pick it up clockwise when holding their work in their right hands and anticlockwise when holding the work in their left hand. But when they start to alternate to get a square result, they soon learn that you can use your thumb with both directions. And I have seen people finding the other way round easier.
When holding the work in a different way I have never seen any way as prefered way, but that might be because I was never looking for evidence.
(And while the other options are certainly good, just Other, please explain in a post, would also have done.)
Willeke