maviskw

At the Madison WI quilt expo last year, there was a lady selling sterling silver thimbles. They are purchased to fit your finger and no one else's finger. She may be there again this year.

jmoore

While at a sewing group a couple of weeks ago, a fellow quilter gave me a sticky “dot” to use for my appliqué project. You can reuse them over and over (not sure how long exactly) but they look like a tiny felt pad you would but under your furniture...but they stick firmly to your finger. I liked it far better than a clunky thimble...now I’ve just got to order some as my LQS did not have them.

Onebyone

Odd, my thread never comes in contact with my thimble. I wear a thimble on the middle right finger.

carolynjo

That sounds like my friend, Tommy Lane. She measures your finger and makes you a thimble. I have had mine for over 25 years and I love it; it has a space for my fingernail at the top; it is the most comfortable thimble I have ever owned.. She used to be at quilt shows, so hope she is still able to do that.

meyert

ok then how do you push the needle? aren't thimbles used to push the needle through?

meyert

well I am sewing with one piece of thread but pulled through and knotted together at the end.. so I have 2 strings to work with

i am just going to have to try harder to remember to keep moving the thread so I don't stress my thread and wear it in two

i was just hoping that I was doing something wrong - I can't be the only person who has this problem right??

CorgiNole

When I use a thimble, I place it on the end of the needle, but the thread is coming out the side of the eye so is not between the needle and thimble. I learned a neat trick in Sharon Schamber's class a few weeks ago - to basically stitch through the thread tails - and then I don't have to worry about the needle unthreading - which is my usual problem.

Peckish

I agree with the other poster who said the thread comes out the side of the needle, so it doesn't come in contact with the thimble.

I am another who wears the thimble on my middle right finger, and I push the needle with the side of that finger. This is how I've always done it, it just comes naturally to me this way.

Neuras

Does she have contact info? can you pm me or post it here?

meyert

Well I will have to study this tonight

while I am on the couch watching TV sewing maybe I am holding things at a weird angle?? I will have to watch

thank you everyone