Whether you love quilting, embroidering, or hand-stitching, thimbles are great sewing tools to keep your finger protected. Sometimes, when you push the needle into the fabric with your finger, you may feel a “sinkhole” or a tiny puncture may appear over time. When you wear a thimble covering your finger pad, there is no such…
A thimble is a protective shield worn on the finger or thumb generally worn during sewing. While collecting thimbles became popular in the mid 1800 as a result of the special thimbles that were made for the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, the earliest known thimble was Roman and…
A thimble is a cap that fits over the end of your finger to protect it when pushing a needle through fabrics as you sew. The word, derived from Middle English, literally means “thumb shield” (but most of us don’t use it on our thumbs). The thimble has a long history. The oldest existing thimble…
We have had a rough 2020. Resilience has been the halmark of the entrepreneur survivors. I have had a really refreshing year for design work. As many of you know it has been my normal schedule to vend at Quilt Shows for 40 weekends (out of 52). I have met 1000’s of you… and examined…