Does everyone keep a box of bandages in the sewing room?How many times have we:
Pricked ourselves with the pins and needles.
Ran the rotary cutter across our skin in one form or fashion.
Those scissors are sharp! They cut right where you tell them to!
Snippers. I guess so!
And then there is the seam ripper. It does gouge doesn't it?
Want to add to the list?

I'm usually good on the bloody bits but redwine is a killer too.

I am soooooo laughing!

I have gotten blood on a couple quilts while binding them, but I always mark the spots with a safety pin and then clean it up with hydrogen peroxid when the quilt is done. Then it goes directly into the wash. No bloody aftermath left behind.

Ugh, my bad habit is dinking coffee, while sitting with pets and quilting! I had just finished a quilt, all in 30's pastels, that I promised the no kill cat shelter. GUESS WHAT????? coffee stain. Praise the lord for Spray and wash!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your little sewing man hypnotizes me. I love him.

I don't want to jinx myself, but I've managed to keep the blood off the quilts, mine and my customers! I do probably need to refill the bandage box. It usually happens on custom quilted quilts, where I use pins to keep things in place while I work my way around on the quilt. I don't have to use pins for the pantograph work. No blood there!

One of the ladies managed to cut herself with a rotary cutter and had to have stitches. I happened to miss that day!

I also get the bleeding hang nails because my skin will get so dry from handling the fabric. I learned a long time ago that the best way to remove blood from fabric is with your own spit. Good thing I wash them after!

Good thing today was practice on my treadle, I put my finger where no one should, to straighten the fabric (under the screw for the needle) at the same time I pushed the peddle Yikes a chunk of finger missing and blood a pourin! It was a small practice piece as I was working to adjust the tension. But yikes it coulda been bad on a quilt! I have also poked myself alot hand quilting and spit it is most of the time to remove it, don't worry I wash them!! LOL

When I do prick myself, it's a reminder that I haven't died and gone to heaven (because quilting brings me to a very mellow place where all cares disappear.)

I did that a few weeks ago!

Ouch!!!!!!!! I am sorry that happened. Been there too!
I didn't know about the spit but I made friends with bandages early in my career. One pin prick can put tiny dots in lots of places.

I have seen posts on sewing gloves. I am going to check them out. After my California King I almost had no fingerprints left.

me too

Oxi-Clean Pre wash does great on blood. My son wrestles and his singlets are white. More than one kid he was wresting got a bloody nose all over the singlet. Sprayed, washed, ALL GONE!!

I have been very lucky that the rotary cutter has not attacked me. I cannot say so about the pins. And yes, I do keep bandaids in the sewing box.

I always tell my grandchildren that grammy made this with her own blood sweat and tears cause its true always those three things go into a good quilt.

Ditto on the spit. I wash 'em after too... but in the moment, before the stain sets it's a great ole solution.

my problem would be coffee also. Kittens love to crawl in my lap as I sew on the machine and then bump my arm for attention. errrrrr.

I even bought the little "round" bandages to keep in my drawer. They are perfect for when I poke myself with the quilting pins - those really make a good size hole in my finger.

If you put your own saliva or peroxide on that little droplet it will come right off. I have done this many times. The treatment works great. No one will ever know.

Great tip!! Thanks.

:thumbup:

Ever accidentally put 2 new blades on the rotary cutter? Not only do you keep wondering "why is it cutting so funny", but when you go to try and fix it, you are rewarded with two parallel cuts on the finger from the brand new blades!!

Thank goodness for bandaids, although I can only usually find Hello Kitty or Princess ones!

Sewing machine needle + not paying attention (on the phone) = multiple injuries. Worst was when the foot was up, I got myself caught on the needle a little, and somehow in trying to free myself, I ... (shudder)... dropped the foot.

I told my boyfriend if he's over and something like that happens, SAVE THE QUILT. Unless I'm losing a limb, protect the quilt first and free me 2nd. And he thought I was kidding, but blood doesn't come out easily and I can always be patched up. Plus that way I can focus on freeing me without worrying about the quilt.

One thing that will happen when I hand stitch is I'll go through the top layer of skin on the end of my thumb. It doesn't hurt, I don't notice as it happens (feels like a normal slight needle prick) and I'll pull away but the thread will be through my finger. Grosses other people out, but I think it's sort of cool (since no blood and doesn't hurt). I've done that a few times.

LOL! Think I will stick to water and the Tide pens! My biggest worry is that I will cut my cat's tail. He usually jumps on the cutting board and then lays on the fabric to watch! I cut with one hand and move him/shield him with the other!

Interesting, didn't know peroxide would take blood stains out

Sometimes, if you use it full strength, it takes out the color too. But it does work.

I think a little DNA added to a quilt just makes it that much more personal.

Especially if it a "blood" connection relative! :?

Yes - adding to the list!
Paper cuts and/or thread cuts
Iron burns
Catching fingers under sewing foot - don't ask how
Sewing fingers in applique - again don't ask how
:?

I use spit and think of all fabric crafts as DNA collectors. Washing before giving is a nice thing to do. ;0)

Been there, done that and have found a helper in Warm N Natural. Yep. I work a lot with it in my crafts so always have bits and pieces around. I have scotch tape too. Viola! Instant bandage.

What is Warn N Natural?

It's an all cotton batting used in quilting and other crafts. Should have corrected my spelling to "Warm".

I get so focused on the sewing, I forget to look were my fingers are. God bless. Penny

when I was a new-ish quilter I used a rotary cutter for the first time and sliced the knuckles off my left hand

I have also put the Gammill (short-arm quilting machine) needle straight through my finger...that accident was when my husband learned that when I swear he should come NOW!!

I'm usually more concerned with not tripping over the little girls, they have toys *just* for playing with in the studio, easiest way to keep an eye on them :thumbup:

Cat scratches from moving cat from where he wants to be to somewhere else.

Too Funny - I put "quilting supplies" in the Walmart search box. BANDAIDS popped up! :lol:

Thanks for the big laugh! Great one!

One time I was in a workshop and sewed right through my finger! There it was, and my Bernina never missed a stitch. I had to run it all of the way under the presser foot so that I could get to my poor bleeding finger with a seam ripper to free myself. A little farther to the left and it would have gone through my nail.