Notion Alert! What is it and what do you use it for?

After the load of reactions on the needle puller (including her), I promised to tell more about the hardware on my hand and around me while quilting.

It's a Ted week this week, don't know why, just happens to be! She taught me how to quilt, so she pops up when I tell about my notions and quilt technique. And she doesn't even know anything about it. 

So here about another one of my hardware notions stuff thingies:

My thumb quilt ring, the ThumbThimble 

I am right handed, so on my right thumb is this: 

The thumb quilt ring (or Ted's ThumbThimble) is on my tip of my thumb, just above the joint, where it leans comfortably. On my middle finger is another thimble I'll will blog about later, but it is like a regular thimble. Working with both thimbles give me the opportunity to work both ways. And that's great when you work in a frame!

With my normal quilt thimble I work downwards from the right. With my ThumbThimble I work upwards from the left. That means I never have to change seats, and that's great when working on a frame. Because my thumb is stronger than my middle finger, my hand and wrist are not forced, and I can hand quilt much longer.

On Ted's website there is a guideline how to work with the ThumbThimble.

Have fun quilting!

Anymart

p.s. Although Ted knows me and I know her, she doesn't now about this blog. And I don't earn a thing by blogging about it. It's just because I love to work with the thing. Period.;-)