Notes to self....
 

1) If a pin falls in your lap, do not try to "catch" it by slamming your thighs together.
2) Using a hot iron on the wrinkles on your fingers will not make you look any younger.
3) If a needle falls on the carpeted floor, get a flashlight instead of just "feeling around for it".

Time to quit for the day!

thanks.....i needed that

Were you in my sewing room!!!

I'd like to add: "If you drop a pin, don't roll around on your exercise ball to try and find it!"

Ha ha. Sounds like me or of pin falls on floor dont use toes to retrieve like I do other things!!:-)

mine for today?

finish some of those projects. while there seems to be an endless supply of safety pins in the world, the world is not in your sewing room...

aileen

That was good.

Been there done that !! lol.. too funny...

From personal experience: If you drop your open rotary cutter, do not grab for it out of instinct! It bites! Hard! :shock:

also don't grab for your falling hot iron!

When using a clover iron do you stick out your index finger and burn it?
Do you hunt for ages for that needle you placed in the pin cushion while you went to ....?

One that I have to keep reminding myself of everyday: The shoemaker's elves don't do piecing and quilting!!

OMGosh, this post is painful to read :eek:

After having read all the current replies to this post, I want you to know what a pleasure it is to be among human beings who drop pins, burn themselves on their irons, step on fallen needles, try to catch falling rotary cuters and/or irons. Have some of you also burned a pan of cookies or baked a cake that fell? So many women I know have never, never experienced any of the things mentioned. Being around them is soooo intimidating! froggyintexas

That's why I threw the clover iron away!

Funny, you guy's have me in stitches.

I have a friend who loves horses, keeps several on her farm, but refuses to ride them. "Why?" I asked her. She is a social worker working with people who have suffered brain injuries. A couple of the people's injuries involved horses. Now she is fearful of riding herself. After reading this and experiencing my own situations, I can understand where she is coming from .... rotary cutters, irons, scissors, pins and needles are all dangerous weapons and some days I shouldn't play with them.

Been there, done it all. Now I try to THINK before I leave a needle, look for a pin on the floor, etc. Easier to do that than be injured!

I would also add no one is allowed in the quilt room without shoes on. In case there is a needle on pin on the floor that you don't see.
Carol in Delaware

Oh, that first one was so funny! I can totally see myself doing that and then crying out in pain!

I don't have to worry about dropped pins. My DH finds all of them by walking around in my sewing room in his stocking feet. I wear slippers so I don't have to worry. He is beginning to think that I drop the pins on purpose. I also solved the rotary cutter problem by using dull blades!!!
Sue

LOL. LOL. too funny. still laughing.

Those are excellent tips, especially the one about needles. I once stepped on a needle that had fallen onto the scatter rug beside my bed (my sewing machine was also in my bedroom) when I was getting into bed. I had to call my DH to pull it out as I did a really good job on it. I wish my sewing area had something other than carpeting, however, the entire apt. is carpeted, so that won't work. I will sometimes empty my magnetic pin cushion and run it around on the rug to pick up some of the wayward pins and needles.

And don't grab for falling/dropping scissors if you are sitting on a lace bedspread!!! Think lace holes and how fast those scissors stop......oh ouch!

Good advice....Is that experience talking...LOL.

Intimidated by perfect people? Don't be! T

They may tell you they never experienced any of the small mistakes of life, but that's not necessarily the truth!

If you are sitting on your couch and lose a needle, hunt for it until you find it. Otherwise, the next time you park your behind on the couch, you will find it!

If you keep a small magnet attached to the end of a yardstick it will pick up the little pins.

My nephew is good at finding pins with his feet, too.

Several members of my family (me included) have an inherited progressive neuropathy. When he finds a pin for me, he yelps and then says, "But at least I felt it!" So far he's not showing any signs of it, thank God.

If you are wearing slippers in your sewing room and your feet get hot and you slip them off, don't leave them under the sewing machine. My toe started hurting last night and I couldn't figure out why. This morning I found a straight pin inside my slipper with the pointy end right where my sore toe would have been. As my mother told me many times , "No sense, no feeling!" :-)

Ha! They just won't ADMIT to it!! There's nobody that perfect . . . unless they don't do anything!
:p

and don't stick a pin on the arm of a chair or sofa and the DH discovers it....

Also do not try to catch a seam ripper with the slamming of thighs together.

Thank you all ladies.........you make me feel normal!!

Thanks for all of the common sense reminders. Stay safe while sewing/quilting!

I've both baked a cake that's fallen, a cake that wasn't cooked completely and had one that exploded out of the pan because I used self-rising flour instead of regular flour. The self-rising flour was at my sister-in-law's house --she lives in the south. I've also had a cat walk across a cake and just filled in the paw prints with extra frosting. It is much harder to disguise the paw prints after the frosting is on the cake. Both cakes were covered but this cat thinks cakes are walkways because he's a cat.

Sure wish I would have known the "dangers" of the clover iron when I got mine. Ouch - twice. I see now they have guards on the necks.

If a pin falls to the floor, pick it up while it's still in sight. Otherwise it will find you.

Someone should invent a magnetized flooring of some sort that you can install in your sewing rooms that will attract the pins and needles all at one time. LOL