Watch out for Needles!
#1
I have been sewing for over 40 years and have endured many complaints from my family over dropped needles and pins that they have found on the carpet with their feet - it was my turn on Weds. nite. Unfortunately I thought it was just a "poke" and walked around on my foot on Thursday, unknowingly forcing the needle deeper into the bottom of my foot. After an x-ray on Friday afternoon revealed the needle deeply imbedded, I spent the next few hours in the emergency room while they determined the best course of action. A surgeon with a flouoroscope-sp? was called in to remove the needle and two minutes after he made the incision he found it! Needless to say after a weekend with my foot up and no sewing I have learned my lesson - slippers on at all times and pick up those needles (and pins) whenever they are dropped!
#6
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: chicago, IL
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sorry to hear that you did this...I have done it, too. Broke one off in the foot.
I highly recommend a light/magnet that is an extension magnet
that looks like a pen. You can pick one up from Newark Dressmaking supplies. They have a catalog online...it was only about $4, but I have bought them for gifts for several relatives.
I highly recommend a light/magnet that is an extension magnet
that looks like a pen. You can pick one up from Newark Dressmaking supplies. They have a catalog online...it was only about $4, but I have bought them for gifts for several relatives.
#7
OMG, that same thing happened to me about 20 years ago! A darning needle broke off in my foot, and I went to the emergency room, and they scheduled surgery for a few days later. The best part was they sent me home to wait til the scheduled surgery -- with a set of crutches and a prescription for MASSIVE amounts of painkillers because they assumed I was in so much pain, but really, it never even hurt. (THESE days if you go to the doctor doubled over in pain, they tell you to take a tylenol.)
#9
Thank goodness I have hardwood floors and it is easy to find the pins. This is one to the thing my hubby and I are at odds now, he wanted to carpet the shop. I want to use wood floors. Not hardwood I can't afford it. I just want to poly the plywood. :roll:
#10
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio, the land of 4 seasons. sometimes all in the same week!
Posts: 2,487
I have a 30 lb pin finder. My dog Bella finds them and takes them in the livingroom for me to find. 1 at a time. I think the cats jump up and knock the pins down to wear Bella can reach them. I haved warned Bella that I think it's a plot against her.
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