My instructor told me today that it is best if I make my rose petals from the right to left, instead of from left to right. She said I'll have trouble in Wilton II making a victorian rose if I do it the other way. The thing is I had already practiced for hours and know how to do it very well the "wrong" way. The gal sitting next to me just suggested I do it my way. (Our instructor is very nice and really wouldn't have trouble with it.)
However I was just wondering what all the experts here thought. Is it that big of a deal that I am turing the flower nail the wrong direction?
Thanks much.
I turn my rose nail the "wrong" way, too. I didn't figure it out until I learned how to do the Victorian rose. My petals were turning in instead of out. When you are making the Victorian, you will just have to turn it the other way. I make regular roses more often, so I still do it the same way. As long as they look good, I don't think it really matters.
Yes if you are doing your roses backwards you will have a problem with the victorian rose, but other then that is shouldn't effect you. Its like doing the roses left handed, Now i don't know if they make a left handed tip to do the victorian rose, but if they do that would solve your problem.
When I learned how to do the rose my instructor said, you're doing it backwards but if it works for you, then it's no big deal..... I couldn't figure out what she meant, that I was doing it backwards......my roses looked better than anyones else in class.......when I started to make the victorian rose in Course II, it finally hit me what she meant......I have to really concentrate when doing victorian roses but I still do the other ones "backwards"! 
I was just looking at a real rose yesterday, and I noticed that the petals do go from right to left. Each petal's left side is overlapped by the petal to it's left. So that's the "anatomically correct" way to do it, but unless you're going for exact realism, you can do whatever you want!
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