"What was your worst injury?" A thinner wallet!!

My worst injury came while I owned the shop. We all often picked up bolts of fabric with one hand by the end of the bolt. This produced a repetitive injury common among shop owners/employees that was just like tennis elbow. When I realized both my arms hurt most of the time, I trained my staff to pick up bolts in a "hug" motion, rather than with fingers and palm. A friend who owned Quilt Country in Lewisville, TX, was in a sling for months due to this injury. It hurts for a long time and rest seems to be the main treatment!

Jan in VA

Other than cutting off a finger nail been very lucky? My worst injury I suppose was to my brain. Too many quilts to try and make not enough time or fabric panic.

I had the single hole face plate in the machine and without thinking set the machine to a zigzag stitch. The needle hit the plate, shattered, and lodged in my face right next to my eye.

There have been some burns (colloidal silver), and rotary cuts, but the needle was the scariest!

From the competitive use of sewing and using my rotary cutter I now have to have carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand sometime this summer. But I asked the doctor, would it still be alright for me to sew after the surgery in a splint on my hand? He just looked at and smiled. I am trying to get as much of my cutting, piecing, sewing done now.

I cut my left thumb, it bled for four hours. went to ER and sat another hour. By the time I saw anyone, it had stopped. they used the most ingenious contraption to put gause on my thumb. (a nurse invented it). I did have to get a metal guard to wear on my finger at work because I'd cut some nerves.

dropped my rotary cutter on my foot and of course I was barefoot. So much blood, it was awful.

I find quilting to be reasonably safe. But, just the other day somehow a needle that wasn't near the sewing area, flipped up in the air at a fast rate of speed and hit me in the eye. Lucky I had my glasses on. Whew!

seven stitches to the inch on my left index finger. Emergency room Doc and Nurse and I were laughing and talking so much the the doc said 4 stitches seeyour primary to get them out in one week. Primary said "You have seven stiches here." Oh well!

Carpal tunnel syndrome in left hand due to rotary cutting. Not the hand using the cutter, but the one steadying the ruller - go figure!