Originally Posted by
ManiacQuilter2
Knock on wood, I have NEVER cut myself with a rotary cutter. But the other day, I stuck myself with a straight pin and didn't notice anything. I picked up some pink batiks a few minutes later and I bleed all over one batiks. Tried sucking the blood off but it didn't come out. I am going to have to work around but it blends in with the pink batik !! Lucky me.
I learned a neat trick, when I first started quilting in the mid 80's, from a veteran hand quilter. Put a 12" piece of thread in your mouth while quilting and if you get a spot of blood on the quilt--put the wet thread on the spot--GONE. She also stated that if YOUR blood gets on fabrics--YOUR spit will take it out.
It worked when I had to get some spots off fabric, I always washed the quilt when it was finished and no spots.