http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/-t1.htm This section is for profiles on Thimble makers etc Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:32:19 GMT 10 http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr19/Lindsay1973/JustRightBannercopy.jpg http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/-t1.htm http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/jenny-scharff-bockel-author-t189.htm Paddy Profile on Jenny Scharff Bockel Jenny is the founder member of the Thimble Collectors Club of South Africa which she started in 1984 after advertising in the South African Garden & Home magazine where she asked thimble collectors to contact her with a view to forming a club in Johannesburg. The response from around the country was overwhelming, and the Thimble Collectors Club of South Africa was born. Jenny started collecting thimbles by pure chance. During the early 1980’s ... Profiles Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:32:19 GMT http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/jenny-scharff-bockel-author-t189.htm#598 http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/jenny-scharff-bockel-author-t189.htm http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/profile-on-gili-davis-thimble-maker-t165.htm Paddy Gili in her studio: Gili hard at work!: Gili's bird thimbles: Gili's fruit & bottle thimbles: Photographs compliments of Jenny Bockel with grateful thanks. Profile on Gili Davis – South African Thimble Maker: Gili, her husband Mike and their three sons immigrated to South Africa in 1980 from Zimbabwe and settled in Pretoria. Gili collected a few thimbles in 1982 before she started making thimbles herself. The story of how Gili started making thimbles ... Profiles Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:51:05 GMT http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/profile-on-gili-davis-thimble-maker-t165.htm#540 http://thimblechatter.forumotion.com/profiles-f24/profile-on-gili-davis-thimble-maker-t165.htm