Had To Laugh At Myself!!
10-12-2014, 08:33 AM
#21
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: S. W. Indiana
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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. 
Aren't we silly sometimes? Can see myself doing that, too
10-12-2014, 08:34 AM
#22
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10-12-2014, 10:35 AM
#23
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Location: Spring Lake, Michigan
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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 those big rubberbands from broccoli at the stores---they work,,,but not as well as a tourniquet.
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10-12-2014, 11:01 AM
#25
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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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.
10-12-2014, 11:56 AM
#27
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Texas
Posts: 113
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.
10-12-2014, 12:30 PM
#28
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Chula Vista CA
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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.
10-12-2014, 01:42 PM
#30
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: NY
Posts: 301
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 those big rubberbands from broccoli at the stores---they work,,,but not as well as a tourniquet.
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