Thread: Danger don't do what i did

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Originally Posted by shandyr1

Last night I was using my seam ripper to remove some stitches. I laid it down on my sewing table and knocked it off onto my lap. Natural response without thinking I put my knees together to catch it and it caught between my legs. I stabbed the inside of my leg badly. Managed to stop the bleeding finally with my husband's help. I was lucky I didn't get the main artery in my leg. Sure hurt. I won't do that again.

My sister did this with an axacto knif. Bled like a stick pig. Luck for her my brother in law got it stopped. Could have got that femoral artery. He banded her from wood craving anymore. Now she does it with a tray in her lap. Glad you are OK.

I am glad you are healing well! So many accidents can happen in our quilting rooms - they are filled with sharp objects!!! Of course, stopping that reflex to catch something that is falling...that's a tough one to unlearn! I was helping DH unload groceries from the back seat of his truck when a package to toilet paper tumbled out...I threw out my leg with the speed of a black belt, saving the toilet paper (wrapped in plastic) from getting dirty and giving myself a heck of a lump and bruise on my shin from solidly connecting with the bottom of the truck door. Horrible reflex that I would love to reverse!!!

It is hard to not respond with a reflex action when you drop something. I was sitting at my machine one day stitching something by hand and dropped the needle. I caught it between my legs and it went all the way in. That's the only time I have ever been glad I had chubby legs, It didn't hit anything vital and it still had the thread on it so I could pull it out. It sure gave me the "willies" though.