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GrannieAnnie 10-12-2014 08:33 AM
Originally Posted by KimS (Post 6922668)
I've been determined with the most recent hand quilting project to learn to use a thimble. Just started using a spoon to help with the underneath hand being stuck all the time and that's working wonderfully so thought I'd work on protecting the other hand too. I love to quilt by hand and find it very relaxing but it's sure rough on the hands! This morning I noticed the first finger on my right hand was really sore and then started wondering what I could have done to it to make it so tender. I started paying closer attention to what I was doing and found I'm avoiding the finger with the thimble on it and pushing the needle through with the first finger. That's defeating the whole purpose so off went the thimble. Maybe next time. :D

Aren't we silly sometimes? Can see myself doing that, too

GrannieAnnie 10-12-2014 08:34 AM
Originally Posted by Geri B (Post 6925367)
To get used to thimble: wear it on finger all day while doing other things...your brain will except it as your fingertip and will not "fight" it when you quilt with it......that's the theory......
Sounds like a plan!

sailsablazin 10-12-2014 10:35 AM
I have found that tourniquets (when you have to have your blood drawn at the lab) are WONDERFUL for pulling the needle through when hand quilting. Sometimes I just hit a tough spot, maybe a seam allowance, and my hands are dry and just won't pull that needle through. I can cut up that tourniquet and share. When I explain to the lab girl why I want it, they don't care if I take it. Sometime they will say, "I don't see a thing." They are disposable so they are thrown away anyway.
Also those big rubberbands from broccoli at the stores---they work,,,but not as well as a tourniquet.

MargeD 10-12-2014 10:49 AM
Don't laugh too hard, I could never get used to wearing a thimble, even for hand sewing, and then carpal tunnel took care of any hand quilting for me.

madamekelly 10-12-2014 11:01 AM
Originally Posted by KimS (Post 6922668)
I've been determined with the most recent hand quilting project to learn to use a thimble. Just started using a spoon to help with the underneath hand being stuck all the time and that's working wonderfully so thought I'd work on protecting the other hand too. I love to quilt by hand and find it very relaxing but it's sure rough on the hands! This morning I noticed the first finger on my right hand was really sore and then started wondering what I could have done to it to make it so tender. I started paying closer attention to what I was doing and found I'm avoiding the finger with the thimble on it and pushing the needle through with the first finger. That's defeating the whole purpose so off went the thimble. Maybe next time. :D
I "discovered" those silicone finger cots that they sell in office supply stores. They protect my fingers so I can sew longer, and none of the akwardness of a thimble, and room for my nails. Works for me. They are so comfortable I once noticed while standing in line at the grocery store that I still had one on!

madamekelly 10-12-2014 11:03 AM
Originally Posted by Aurora (Post 6925415)
I purchased a needle puller, can't remember where I got it, but I use it a lot.
I just use an old pair of forceps.

HomekeepingGran 10-12-2014 11:56 AM
I just learned to use a regular thimble many years ago. I never think about it except to grab one every time I do hand sewing, even a few stitches. I see videos of people stitching without a thimble and shudder. My poor hands would be raw meat! The little hand quilting I've done absolutely required a second thimble on the left hand to protect that finger, too, but it was a different style from my regular metal one. I must be tender, like the princess who felt the pea through 20 mattresses, LOL.

quiltingcandy 10-12-2014 12:30 PM
I had trouble with thimbles until I got the little plastic one that you can boil and adjust it to your finger. But then I found TJ Lane thimbles and she makes them to size. Over the years I have bought 4 of them. (I love the different designs and decided I needed a heart, then the angel, then the fairy and a butterfly.) She doesn't come to San Diego so have to find what is new at the Road to CA show in Ontario. I have tried to use the generic ones now and they just fall off.

charity-crafter 10-12-2014 12:36 PM
I taped my fingers with duct tape when I hand sew and my fingers get tender.

IQ2 10-12-2014 01:42 PM
Originally Posted by sailsablazin (Post 6925847)
I have found that tourniquets (when you have to have your blood drawn at the lab) are WONDERFUL for pulling the needle through when hand quilting. Sometimes I just hit a tough spot, maybe a seam allowance, and my hands are dry and just won't pull that needle through. I can cut up that tourniquet and share. When I explain to the lab girl why I want it, they don't care if I take it. Sometime they will say, "I don't see a thing." They are disposable so they are thrown away anyway.
Also those big rubberbands from broccoli at the stores---they work,,,but not as well as a tourniquet.
also little balloons....learned that at a hand-quilting class where the instructor handed us each one to use.


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