Originally Posted by
SandScraps
I use the old fashioned stainless steel thimbles. When a friend's mother passed, he gave me her complete set of thimbles. One evening one slipped off my finger and landed on the carpet. DH did not see it and stepped on it, bending it slightly and changing the shape from perfectly round to almost oval. That was the exact shape of my finger! It has never slipped off again and I guard it like gold.
I remember a woman saying her mom used to run her new thimbles over with her car to get the right shape. I've considered doing this!
I found my Thimble Lady cone thimble yesterday. Tried it on and immediately remembered why I don't use it. The cone is shaped perfectly for my finger, but the indentations for the needle are on the bottom of the cone, where the pad of my finger is. I push the needle with the side of my finger, and the cone is smooth in that spot.