My Fingers Thank You
Published April 25, 2007 by CabledSheep
Thanks for all your sympathy on my Raynaud’s. I hate being a whiner, and almost didn’t post about it, but it helped to vent. I have a few ideas of things I might try - one is that I have (or at least had) a leather thimble that I bought for quilting, and I thought maybe I could try wearing it on my index finger for padding. I haven’t been able to find it yet, but I still have some boxes to dig through. Thanks, Marsha, for the idea about bandaids. I might try that, especially if I can’t find the thimble, or if it’s too hard to knit while wearing it. Unfortunately, I guess I won’t really know whether anything’s helping until next winter. I’ll just try to be a bit more conscious of what I’m doing, and try to limit the pressure on my fingers.
But I’m not going to give up on the knitting, at least not unless my fingers get much worse. Knitting seems to be the perfect hobby for me, probably because I’m such a practical gal. With knitting, I can make useful items for myself and others, and there’s practically no end to how much you can knit. With many other things I’ve tried, there’s only so much you really want to do. After all, how many quilts or cross-stitched items or needlepoint items can you really use? Plus it’s so portable, and it makes for a great social activity, too.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on “test socks” with worsted weight yarn (so they’d go faster!), trying to come up with sock dimensions that I like. I think I’m ready to translate that to some new socks in good sock yarn. But I’ll go into that in a separate post.
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Cabled Sheep lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she enjoys knitting and munching veggies out of the garden.
I thought about the thimble myself (cuz I have one too). If wearing it the regular way doesn’t work, try cutting the end off so the tip of your finger comes through and will give you a bit of better control with the needles, the thimble just stays over the area that needs the padding. Worth a try!
I’ve got some soft leather and elastic and sewing skillz, so I’ll bring some stuff next time to SnB and see if we can’t make you something that will work better than your quilting thimble and be fitted perfectly to your finger. OK?