It would have to be my left-handed tape measure.
For many years I made do with a regular tape measure (numbers going from left to right) and read it upside down. It was not ideal but as there wasn’t anything else I just made do.
About 17 years ago I was sewing a lot more than I had been and was getting fed up with my tape measure being ‘wrong’. I searched online for a left-handed shop I’d visited in London in the early 80’s, to see if they were still going.
They were, and guess what they had in stock, a left-handed tape measure !!!! Sadly though I didn’t buy it as the postage was phenomenally expensive. It was about three times the cost of the tape measure....
A friend of ours used to visit London quite regularly so I asked him if ever he was passing the shop, could he call in and get it for me. A week later he handed me a little present. It was the left-handed tape measure. As he wasn’t due down to London for several weeks he’d asked a friend who lived in the capital to buy it for him.
Over time the tape measure has seen a fair bit of action, resulting in a lot of battle scars and a few of the numbers have worn off, but I could never be without it.
Gertie xx
Hello. I've not visited your blog in ages so I wanted to say hi. I've never heard of a left hand tape measure. The left handed shop sounds like a fun place to visit. I hope you are doing well. Pat xx
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