BETTY62

I must be a slow learner because I've sewed my finger more than once over the years. May your finger heal very quickly.

leatheflea

Yes more than once! And everytime I jerk my finger away causing more damage to me and the machine. Knocking on wood that I don't do that anytime soon!

dc989

We had a girl in HS home ec named Ellen who did it at least once a year. At class reunions we still tease her about it. The first week or so of class we would hear a blood curdling scream and it would be Ellen. Our teacher who was a spinster crab apple, we thought, once asked her if maybe sewing wasn't a good fit for her. I got to know the teacher later after graduation and really appreciated her dry sense of humor and skills. Her sweetheart was killed in WWII and she never married.

DJ

Ouch! I'm hurting just thinking about it. A friend of mine sewed her finger and the tip of the needle stayed in her finger. She had to have it surgically removed.

Lee in Richmond

Update 2 days later: the finger is beginning to heal and is more numb than sore, so long as I don't knock into anything! I can't believe how many of you have done much worse damage, and hope not to be in competition with you in the future!

diamondee

OUCH! Wine-ing helps I hope Tartan is right, you only do it once.

madamekelly

I am so sorry to hear you did it too. I did it on Friday. I have always had a little smirk privately when people mention doing this, and wondered how it could happen. Now I know that all it takes is a fur-kid deciding to come sat 'hi' in the middle of a seam. I did get off luckier though, I only sewed my finger nail. Smirk now gone. (head hung in shame for previous smirk...)

Ruby the Quilter

I was sewing patches on my DH's Army uniform and had a very large needle in the machine. The needle went through the nail and the point was sticking out on the other side. Had to deaden my hand to cut the needle in two pieces and pull it out.

sewNso

so sorry. sounds familiar, i must have at one time, but nothing major, or i would really remember it.
i come from a very long line of seamstresses, so have known about the dangers from the time i was knee high to a grasshopper.
even worked in a sewing shop for a short time one year, and i always cautioned the girls i had to introduce to the sewing machine about the dangers of sewing your finger. even my 4-H's years ago, i always cautioned, because i knew it could happen.
take care, and get well quick.