The key to learning to love using a thimble is finding one that fits and suits you. Once you have greater control, precision, and speed you’ll stop dreading hand sewing and start discovering all the ways that it can truly improve the quality of your garments and maybe even fall in love with it! How to choose a thimble The thimble allows you the protection to fully employ a third finger for hand sewing, giving you exponentially greater control, precision, and speed. The thimble’s purpose is to allow you to use more of your hand while hand sewing, as opposed to simply pinching the tiny needle between two fingers. So you probably know what a thimble is (even if you’ve only seen one on Monopoly), but what is it for? Unless you are taking my Camp Workroom Social Hand Sewing Intensive, I won’t make you (even though it could change your life.) In this post, I’m going to gently advise how to choose and use a thimble to improve the quality of your garments. I would not have gotten very far in making professional-quality clothing without it! While it’s not in my nature to be crabby or to make people do something they really don’t wanna, I do strongly encourage my custom sewing students to embrace the joys and benefits of hand sewing and using a thimble. Once I (quickly) got over the initial “this feels unnatural” phase, I was hooked! As my thimble now feels like an extension of my hand and is quite possibly my most treasured sewing tool, I owe her a huge thanks for making mandatory something I strongly resisted. To me, it seemed awkward and actually in the way of getting the work done.Įnter another grouchy professor, this time at the Master’s degree level, who would not allow me to do handwork without a thimble. Since I was first introduced to sewing while in professional settings making custom garments, I never considered it was even possible to resist hand sewing all together (something I’m learning that many hobby sewists do!), but I did resist using a thimble. It wasn’t until someone said “You must do this” that I realized that I was totally in love in a way that would change my life forever. I would never have learned to sew at all if it weren’t for a college professor who assigned me to work in the costume shop against my wishes. There are many great pleasures in my life and sewing practice that I originally resisted.
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