3 stitches later
 

I could never understand how some of you gals cut yourself with a rotary cutter, 3 stitches later I've joined the club and understand perfectly lol

Sorry! I managed to miss joining the club. My daughter is a member.

I super glued the very side tip of my finger back. Had busy day at salon and no time for stitches. Did it right before going out the door. First time using a new rotary cutter with a very new and very sharp blade. That was last time. Luckily no new fabric was damaged in the accident. Was a scrap piece that I really didn't like. Pitched it in the trash.

I always wear my Fons & Porter klutz glove, because yeah, I'm a total klutz. Unfortunately, I like to wear sandals around the house so still have to be careful not to drop the darn thing on my toes! So sorry this happened to you.

I'm a member of that club. Cut should have been stitched but I was a coward. Have a bumpy scar.

Thanks for the laugh. Glad you had a sense of humor about it.

I have quilted for almost 30 years and I do have a klutz glove while also downsizing to the smaller Olfa cutter. I am not a member and hope I don't join your club !! I don't drive and I would hate the cost of calling the fire department. Might just have to walk up the hill to the fire station !!

Try the Klutz glove; it pays for itself with the first trip to the ER!

Maniac, if it's bad and won't stop bleeding, call a cab. The firemen won't be able to stitch it up. You'll need the ER for that. Have the cabby take you while you hold pressure. Remember ladies and gentlemen to never take away bandages while trying to stop the bleeding, but to keep adding layers if the blood seeps through the bandage.

So far, so good. I don't want to be a member of that club.

It's not if but when you will have a rotary cutter accident. Find a safety tool you like and use it! I love love love the Quilters Slide Lock.

I just joined a couple of months ago when I cut off 1/2 inch of my middle finger. It grew back though so I am sure yours will be fine, just keep it up in the air, and have plenty of padding around it. (I learned that the hard way, lol). Sorry you have joined us.

Glad it was a relatively minor cut. I don't want to join the club so should probably invest in the glove.

Oouch!!!!! I really need to look for that glove, its hiding somewhere in my sewing room, once found... I really need to start wearing it. I do not want to join your club.

No one uses a rotary cutter in my sewing room without a safety tool. I have the Slidelock, glove, Gypsy Gripper, Alto Quilt Cut 2 and the Go die cut machine for their choosing to use. I don't need anyone's blood all over my stuff.

Welcome to the club...I've done it twice!!!! Hope there's never a repeat!!!!

Been there done that for the record I didn't like it!!! No stitches I too am a coward bandaged it tight and used rubber glove for dishes and washing up, very slight scar.

I haven't joined the club, yet, and I'm trying really hard to avoid it! I have too much to finish and create! LOL. So sorry, you cut yourself. It must hurt like crazy. :(

After reading this, I looked for the safety glove for rotary cutting. I always thought it might be pricey but Amazon has it for a little more than ten dollars. Seems worth it considering.
Serita

I haven't cut myself with the rotary cutter, but I have put the needle through my finger. Does that count? I have run into my hands with the cutter, but I usually have a dull blade so, thus far haven't cut myself.
Sue

Ouch! Hope it heals quickly!

Ouch...I feel your pain. I'm an "honorary" club member in that years ago I worked in the advertising department of a large tire company, and we did everything the old fashioned way....hot wax mock ups, cut everything with Exacto knives and rulers....see where this is going??? Still sport the scar from slicing my index finger wide open, and dipped my finger tips in the hot wax more than once! So far no rotary cutter accidents, but will have to watch my toes...always barefoot...didn't think about dropping the cutter!

Read if you put pepper on a wound it will stop bleeding. Don't plan on cutting myself to try it either.

I told my kids to never touch my rotary cutter, EVER! So, one day my daughter was sitting right next to my sewing box and I see her bleeding from her finger. I asked her if she touched the rotary cutter and she said: Yes mommy, and I did not cut myself". I asked her to look at her finger, and that's when the crying started. The blade was brand new, and she did not even feel the cut how sharp it was. Luckily, it was neither deep, nor large, so a bandaid helped, but none of my kids ever touched my stuff again. Lesson learned.

'Tis the season apparently. On Sunday I was getting a different sized rotary cutter from the jar thing I keep them in, when I felt a sharp sting on the side of my hand and felt wet. I looked down to find several nicks in my hand and fingers, bleeding profusely......................

Unbelievably, I must have replaced the 60mm cutter without the guard closed - still reeling at my carelessness!

Hope you heal soon!

Yep, I do it more often than I care to report. Or I stick myself with a pin deep enough to draw blood. That's why I keep bits and pieces of Warm and Natural on the cutting table and a roll of scotch tape. It's the best band-aides around!

Hehe...I was just telling a friend of mine that every quilt makes me bleed at least once!! (Usually from just minor pin-pokes, fortunately!)

Welcome to the club, it has a huge membership!

Yep! I am a member too:(. Sliced through my fingernail just a couple of months ago!
No ER visit though......thank goodness all is well now:)

I haven't joined that club....yet! Hope to put off membership for a while.

But reminders to be careful are always good!

I am a member...7 stitches and a whole day wasted sitting in ER!

I just cut my finger last night on my rotary cutter and I wasn't even using it! I had forgot to put the safety cover over the blade when I finished using it last, went to reach for something next to it and nicked the side of my finger. Bled like crazy and then reopened this morning in the shower. Boy those blade cuts can hurt worse than a paper cut!

Hope it heals quickly and I know how it hurts!

Knock on wood, I have yet to do that. My sister was once showing her husband how to do several layers and went over her thumb. I cringe just thinking about it.

You and a few others on this thread need to get a rotary cutter on which the blade guard closes automatically when it is not held open. I never used to lock that thing closed when it is in my going-to-club tote, but I have been lately. Better to learn to do that before something happens. The handle could get accidentally squeezed by other things in there.

Good information Mike'sgirl. See you don't live to far from me, maybe an hour.

Been there, done that! I forget how many stitches - did it when my son was around 2 or 3. Thankfully, our friend lived next door and was able to take my son and I to the ER. DH was working. That was about 25 years ago using the old rotary cutter. Now I only use the retractable kind. :)

My 45mm blade is the kind that auto-retracts when you let go, and ironically that's the only rotary I've cut myself on. Exactly the way maviskw described...something else in the bag pushed the handle in and I ran my finger right along the blade! Fortunately it was a shallow, glancing cut that barely even bled. More of a warning than anything else!! My 60mm is the quick-change kind that I have to remember to close but fortunately I'm very much in the habit of closing that blade after every single cut. So far....so good! (knock on wood)

Now when I bring my 45mm anywhere, I put it in a tupperware all by itself, so no more skin shaving for me!

I use the Klutz glove. I haven't cut myself yet, and I hope never to do so. I really try to put the glove on for every cut, even when it's only a single fast cut. You can be sure that's when it will happen. I also try to close my cutter when not in use. That's hard to remember, and many times I will reach for it and it will be open. I've got to get better at that.

We must have a nurse in our midst today, saw some advice that I was not aware of (wrapping and keeping pressure on the wound on the way to the ER)--and just keep adding layers, not unwrapping and putting on clean dressing--thanks.....