I put a needle through my finger on my very first quilt. I was using a very cheap Singer and was trying to machine applique a circle that had very stiff fusible web on it. I knew I was going to be a die-hard quilter that day because I just went to the bathroom, pulled the broken needle out of my finger with tweezers, bandaged it up and went back to sewing while the thing throbbed like crazy! :-D