Operating machinery

Good golly Polly! You know I am a bernie fan but I twice sewed through my finger with a Kenmore when I was a teenager. It hurts like the dickens. I hope it isn't throbbing. Sounds like you need a handler or supervisor or something? Sending healing thoughts your way. Taria

ps-good thing you weren?t driving a car!

You know those instructions you get with a prescription or after being released from the hospital when they caution about NOT operating machinery? Well. I don't have either of those excuses but I managed to machine stitch through my finger today. Nothing sews like a Bernina. This includes fingers. I was doing some thread painting and FM, had to reach to hold down an appliquéd edge and POW ! I am expected to live but have learned my lesson, at least for a while. Y'all be careful, you hear? Polly

Ouch! Polly, now is the time to lay in a supply of short wooden shish kebab skewers; they do the same job as our fingers, don't injure us when/if we stitch through them, and don't damage the machinery, either. ;)

Ouch! I bet that hurt, Polly. Sandy is right: get something else to hold close to the needle. I actually got 'That Purple Thang' (remember those?), and if ever I do get close, I use that. When I was very young, a century or so ago, I was 'helping' my Dad do some sewing, by turning the handle. I kept turning when I should have stopped - the needle went right through the top of his finger, nail and all. I remember crying hysterically at the moment, then crying on and off all day. My dad, on the other hand, was fine >gg< . (Sorry, I've just seen the awful pun - but I didn't mean it and can't think of another way of saying the same thing!). . In message , Polly Esther writes

Using the wooden sticks as a sewing pusher is good. I buy the frozen fruit treats on a stick and save the sticks for that purpose. The excess sticks are given to different people or groups to use in crafts. Barbara in FL

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:15:50 -0600, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

Ouch!! Hope you're feeling better soon.

Maureen

For sure! I use both the long and the short shish kebab skewers for pushing stuff and holding fabric in place while I sew up to it. They work great. KT. in MI

Oh yes, poor Polly! BTDT, too, though with an industrial machine in my early twens (or whatever you call that). Yes, the faster the machine and the more power it has... :-(

"Pat S" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4aI+ snipped-for-privacy@quik.clara.co.uk...

I don't know what 'That Purple Thang' is (please fill me in on that one!) but I got me this:

although not at that price; mine is from the local farmers market for 1 Euro.

Had to read that one three times before I got it. Sorry, non-native speaker. ;-)

U.

Sympathy coming from Florida. This experience was one time I was happy my Bernina did not have needle down. See it can always be worse.

Anna Belle >You know those instructions you get with a prescription or after being

I think that everyone that owns/operates a sewing machine has done that, even if they don't admit it.

Brian Christiansen

I had a Home Ec teacher who was a Holy Terror. One of the things she taught us (or die trying, either one was okay with her) was how to treat wounds. I'm so happy to report that my machine stitched finger is fine, just fine. Not even tender. I don't think schools have the time to offer important subjects such as home ec anymore. They are so loaded with paper work and correctness that there's just not time/money for music and creativity or survival. Polly

Not yet Brian.

No one has asked how the sewing machine is yet ???

Dee in Oz

Or twice

ahem marcella

Or twice

ahem marcella

Ouch!! Hope you're feeling better by now. I can empathize because I did that many years ago when I was first learning to sew....one of those lessons you hope that you only have to learn once! Take care, Allison

Ouch!! So glad you recovered from your incident and the machine survived as well.

My one on one with my sewing machine didn't draw blood, but somehow I managed to get my rather long fingernail "caught" in the mechanism above the needle and it twisted my finger up and ripped the nail. I had gel tips on so they were tough enough it didn't rip the nail back into the nailbed, thankfully. I was rushing to finish a Christmas gift and trying to "poke" some fuzz away from the needle - silly me! Moni

Yee-Gads!!! Glad to hear your finger is ok and not throbbing! Please be car eful, we wouldn't want the gators smelling blood!

I remember home-ec. The teacher was a spinster and just as gentle and genti le as could be. She not only taught us sewing and cooking, but how to balan ce a checkbood and find bargains in the grocery store. She had a great sens e of humor and was as sharp as a tack. Too bad the schools have done away with this course. So many of our young p eople need it.

just my 2cents....