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02-05-2013, 04:20 AM

#21

Happy Tails

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I am sincerely hoping to stay a non-serious sewer then!! lol

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Originally Posted by Zyngawf

Iv' done it to and so have others on this board. I think it's a right of passage to stitch your finger and you aren't a serious sewer until you do.

02-05-2013, 06:43 AM

#22

BellaBoo

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It's not if but when that an accident will happen with a rotary cutter. Always use a safety tool when cutting.

02-05-2013, 06:45 AM

#23

SherriB

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Yikes!!! My fingers are hurting in sympathy for all of you!!! (Knocking on wood!!) I have been extremely lucky and not sewn my finger (yet!). I have cut myself several times with my rotary cutter, though. I seem to always cut the back or side of my hand somehow. The last time if felt like it just barely touched my hand, but it bled quite a bit and became quite sore.

02-05-2013, 07:30 AM

#24

barrelracer86

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not only have I done the sewing my finger thing. I was about 14 when I did that. Last fall I knocked the rotary cutter off the table and it landed straight down in the top of my foot and wouldn't you know, I hadn't closed the blade. I had 3 butterfly bandaids so we stuck them on and I didn't go to the doctor but man do those hurt a few days.

02-05-2013, 08:55 AM

#25

Pat G

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tjk829

My cousin texted my a picture of her index figure all wrapped up and the caption " no stitches". I , ever sympathic texted back " Rotary cutter? LOL" It was, well karma keeps score... this morning I was embroidering a really different design, and in my excitement forgot about waiting til the machine stops BEFORE you try to thread it and stitched my index finger! I'm not sending her a text!

I am so laughing at you. I'll bet you text her very soon. That's too good not to share. Don't you feel dumb though?
I not only have sliced off the end of my L index finger, I've also run the needle through my finger. Hazards of the trade I think.
Pat

02-05-2013, 11:04 AM

#26

quilter68

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Seven stitches to the inch on the index finger. Oh well!

02-05-2013, 12:01 PM

#27

MargeD

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Never make fun

I can so relate - I've tried sewing a finger or two and even my thumb - try that one, so you are not alone, could we call ourselves the "pricked finger club"? LOL It happens to all of us at one time or another.

02-05-2013, 12:04 PM

#28

miriam

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DH insisted that my boys learn to sew before they operated a power saw - a needle prick is nothing...

02-05-2013, 12:07 PM

#29

gabeway

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Ouch! Pain comes with quilting. On the cathedral window I am working on have rammed my needle through the material into the quick of the fingernail as well as under the nail! Live and learn.

02-05-2013, 03:24 PM

#30

Maggieloe

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I must be depraved. I read every post in this thread, in increasing pain as I did it. Never done the needle thing so far, but pretty much everything else including a V shaped cut on a finger with scissors - I was in a hurry. I think we all need a glass of wine at this point.