Ouch!

that was your initiation ! Welcome to the club!!! Other initiation rites include not buying enough material, misreading the directions and having to start all over again, breaking needles on the pins that are holding your fabric pieces together...I'm sure others could think of more.

Personally, I haven't sewn my finger yet..poked it with pins, but not sewn it. And I think that the sewing diety keeps me on my toes with the regular broken needles...reminds me to slow down and pay attention.

Larisa

Brandelyn Cunn> Well, it's finally happened.... I sewed my own finger this morning... caught

Yep, you've been blooded!

And trust me, as someone who did this in the middle of the night 35 years ago, you will never forget that awful feeling! I can still feel it, just reading your post.

You poor thing, hope your finger feels better quickly!

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Mine is "leaning so close over your work that the take-up lever on the front of the machine thwacks you in the eyebrow"

I used to do that with my old machine, could get quite painful if I spent a few hours sewing! My new machine has all that big boxed in thankfully!

Charlie.

Ow! I came close...does having a moving part of the machine get tangled in your hair count as well??? My hair is shoulder-length now, but that is because I got it cut a few months ago...it was to the middle of my back.....sometimes when sewing tight seams, I lean against the machine (forehead resting on machine so that i keep a good eye on what I am doing). Went to pull back one night and lost a chunk of hair...ouch! I still do it sometimes, but only if I am wearing my hair back in a ponytail!

LArisa, th> CNYstitcher wrote:

Well, I was going to say that I'd never sewed my finger, but then I remembered that when I was a wee little one, my grandmother undertook to teach me how to embroider, and I stuck my finger so deeply that it bled. I don't recall how I felt about the incident, but Grandma was so upset that she took the project away from me and finished it herself.

(Later, I learned to embroider out of books. I highly recommend "The Stitches of Creative Embroidery" by Enthoven.)

Then there were a few times I sewed my finger to the work -- not recently, perhaps because I don't type as much as I used to, so I don't have thick skin on my fingertips -- or maybe I've figured out what does it! I usually tore the thread out rather than take out the stitch, and smoothed the spot with a pumice stone.

Joy Beeson

machine, when I decide to sew with a zigzag. Another needle bites the dust!

-- Star love, Norma ;-)

I sewed my finger exactly 35 years ago too! And you're soooooo right that you NEVER forget that awful feeling! Karen C./KY