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In celebration of our quickly approaching 20th anniversary we are dipping into our archives to share some of our favorite stories by some of our wonderful writers. “The Thimble Lady” by Betty Cooper was first published in 2009.
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Betty Cooper
The Thimble Lady by Betty P. Cooper
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have a friend who collects thimbles kept in specially built cases with glass fronts to protect them, although some are in open areas so I was actually able to handle them. Mind you, most are purely decorative thimbles made expressly for collectors but Aggie does truly value some old metal ones used by aunts, her mother and grandmothers—long ago departed loved ones who used them as a necessary part of life for sewing, mending and quilting. She enjoys sewing, crocheting and other hobbies requiring skill and dexterity. When asked how she became interested in collecting thimbles, she said she had seen a collection at the home of woman who taught pine needle yad kin valleyma gaz ine.com