At the Tip of Our Fingers

Thimbles are everywhere in my home, my mom's and my grandmother's. I never liked using one until I started quilting and still have trouble finding one that fits me just right.

I borrowed my mother's button jar the other day and found this ivory thimble in it. The pictures not real clear, but I hope that you can see the needle holes all around the top of it. It was used so much that that grooves and holes were made in the thimble. My grandmother has one that had the top come completely off from being worn through by the needles. That takes a lot of quilting.

Here are some pictures from a recent local quilt show. I've labeled the ones that belong to us. Mom and Grannie had several in the show. I had one that was a sampler that I quilted, but all the children did the blocks and then we gave to Grannie as a Christmas gift. I think it was the first quilt she had received as a gift in a long time.