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A friend of mine belongs to a monthy crafting group. She told me this story
and I wanted to post it as a warning. After her last meeting a lady packed up her stuff and hurried out the door. A few moment later she was crying and asking for help.
She had carelessly thrown her craft knife into her bag and must have hit her leg with the bag. The craft knife was sticking out and cut her leg through her jeans. The cut was bad enough to require 14 stitches....
I have carelessly packed up after crafting and wanted to warn you all to
be very careful with your sharp tools.
__________________ Bev
Organized People are just too lazy to hunt for things!!!
A friend of mine belongs to a monthy crafting group. She told me this story
and I wanted to post it as a warning. After her last meeting a lady packed up her stuff and hurried out the door. A few moment later she was crying and asking for help.
She had carelessly thrown her craft knife into her bag and must have hit her leg with the bag. The craft knife was sticking out and cut her leg through her jeans. The cut was bad enough to require 14 stitches....
I have carelessly packed up after crafting and wanted to warn you all to
be very careful with your sharp tools.
That's a good reminder to be CAREFUL with all sharp objects. My sis was taking out her daughter's trash in a plastic kitchen bag. There was a broken jar inside, not wrapped in newspaper or anything. It broke through the bag and gashed her leg pretty badly.
__________________ Bugga in OK
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Oh dear, stitches are bad enough but I'm glad it wasn't more serious! Yes, we need to remember that X-acto knives are basically razor blades, just in a different shape. I saw a few very serious injuries in design studio in college, and am just a bit paranoid about how I store and transport these tools.
__________________ Rachel Proud SU! demo and Sci-Fi Geek!
My Stampin' Up! blog "I'm a time traveler -- I point and laugh at archaeologists." 10th Doctor, "Silence in the Library"
Reminds me of rotary-cutter accidents in quilting, too. Not only slicing the end of your finger, but dropping them on a bare foot, or brushing the hair out of your eyes with the hand holding the tool and slicing your eyebrow open.
Reminds me of rotary-cutter accidents in quilting, too. Not only slicing the end of your finger, but dropping them on a bare foot, or brushing the hair out of your eyes with the hand holding the tool and slicing your eyebrow open.
Ouch to all. My DH and I were cleaning up DS Frat house room (DS had a broken foot and we were afraid her couldn't manuver in his messy room) and DH grabbed a pile of PAPERS( I use the term pile loosely) and the was a broken beer bottle
(DS was of age) and DH cut his hand ( not badly thank GOD). But we were steaming
mad the DS was such a PIG!!!
__________________ Bev
Organized People are just too lazy to hunt for things!!!
I have another warning (that probably will seem obvious to most people, but somehow I'm a moron)...
If you ever use your punches upside down (so you can see what you're punching), be careful where your hand is... I was punching a circle through some really thick stock a couple of weeks ago. The punch wasn't budging, so I put my whole hand over it and leaned my who body weight over it....and then I had a nice circle punched in my palm.
It wasn't bad enough to go to the hospital, but it did break the skin in the pattern of a big circle.
I think this has been posted before, but i had a student in a card class squeeze the handle of a crop-o-dile as hard as she could on her boob by holding it too close to her body!!! ouchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think this has been posted before, but i had a student in a card class squeeze the handle of a crop-o-dile as hard as she could on her boob by holding it too close to her body!!! ouchy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh dear me yes...been there...done that...ouch indeed LOL :-)
This thread is making me cringe...I think I need to go and get a toothbrush holder for my craft knife before I inflict that same injury on myself...my last injury was when I was trying to take the blade out of my martha circle cutter and managed to slice thru the top of my thumb with it - OUCH!!!!
Well I have a story not as serious as stitches but this past weekend I went to a stampin retreat and Sunday night when I got home and I was putting my stuff away.... bam I tripped over my paper case in my craft room and slammed my foot into the leg of my desk and ended up with two broken toes oh soooooo painful.
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Reminds me of rotary-cutter accidents in quilting, too. Not only slicing the end of your finger, but dropping them on a bare foot, or brushing the hair out of your eyes with the hand holding the tool and slicing your eyebrow open.
I use my rotary cutter to cut cardstock. I am thankful for the retractable blade - I NEVER leave it in the locked open position.
paper cuts, anyone? The heavier the cardstock, the more dramatic the cut!
Really? For me it's always the thin stuff that slices me up -- the finer the edge, the sharper it was and the deeper the cut. The worst is the paper we'd use at the office for plotting drawings. Cut myself really good once with a sheet of that.
__________________ Rachel Proud SU! demo and Sci-Fi Geek!
My Stampin' Up! blog "I'm a time traveler -- I point and laugh at archaeologists." 10th Doctor, "Silence in the Library"
I know this is older thread. But I thought I would start it up again.
Cause you know some of us have had Crafting injury stories.
Like I have........ Monday of this past week. Jan 18th 2010.
I had been enjoying the day stamping with my friend Lissette, aka scrapinnut620. We it was time for me to go home. So I got all my stuff together. and headed down the stairs with my Rubber maid tote in hand.
Well some how I missed a couple of steps and tumbled down her stairs. and landing almost on top of Lissette. I was so hopping I hadn't screwed my glasses up. (which I didn't) but I do have to banged up knees. and a bruise on my forehead.
Other than that I'm doing fine.
So now NO more Rubber Maid totes for me.....I have regrouped my stamping stuff in a rolling carts and a Bag to carry the other stuff.
So see scrapping and stamping can be dangerous to our health!
Oh, no! I'm glad you are OK. I recently fell down my basement stairs (heading down to stamp) and ended up with a lot of rug burn!
Just the other day I smashed my finger in my chipboard drawer. The drawer sticks and I honestly have no idea how my finger got stuck in there, but because the drawer doesn't close easily I smashed my finger in there good! It hurt!!!!
__________________ Heather Hawkins - Stampin' Up! Demo and new mom. I have the two best jobs ever! stampinheather.blogspot.com
The only thing that still hurts is my left knee and right above my eyes. I have a good bump. No black and blue marks. Just hurts. Maybe it's because my glasses sit in that area.
I'm the idiot that tried to wipe the paper shavings off my cutter blade with a paper towel... um, yeah, it cut right through the paper towel AND my finger. You would think the half a dozen times I have done something similar with my razors after shaving that I would have a clue....
Great minds do think alike! I've been carrying my xacto in a travelling toothbrush holder for years. My piercing needles get carried in a tall medicine bottle. You all make me cringe with your stories!
Have you ever cut your fingernail with a guillotine trimmer? Luckily, it wasn't my finger. I'm super careful now.
I absolutely have! I cut on the nailbed, right through the nail! However, I quickly realized what I was doing so it was a small cut.:( It hurt really bad!
i used a cork (from a long-ago wine bottle) to cover the entire tip of my paper piercer.
my big 'crafting owie' happened in High School printmaking.... no matter that the teacher TOLD us not to hold linoleum with our other hand as we cut.... I didn't listen, the gouger thingy slipped and I had a big cut on my left hand for quite awhile (it was a gouge cut, not a razor type cut). Hmmmm, I'm sure I should have learned from that, but I still find that sneaky left hand in the way of cutting papers now LOL
I like the cork on the paper piercer idea because this summer I was wearing sandals, picked up a bunch of paper from the table (in which the paper piercer was hiding), and it flew up in the air and came down right in the top of my foot -- and stuck there -- almost 1" in, although it felt like the whole thing.
We were laughing so hard because it was funny, but I was crying too. Pulling it out hurt more than when it pierced my foot because I was so wadded up it got swollen around the area before I was brave enough to pull.
A few years ago, my mother decided to stand on the recliner to do something to the curtains in the window. Her foot slipped down into the body of the chair, and when she pulled her foot out, she had a crochet hook embedded in the joint at the ankle. It totally grossed me out, naturally, it was in hook first! I had to haul her to the emergency room to have it removed. Lucky for her, it caused no permanent damage.
The postscript to this is last May, when I moved her out of the family home, I was cleaning, and under the sofa (a Lane recliner- she loves recliners!) I found some 20 crochet hooks!!! (They must have had a nest under there and multiplied, don't you think???)
A few years ago, my mother decided to stand on the recliner to do something to the curtains in the window. Her foot slipped down into the body of the chair, and when she pulled her foot out, she had a crochet hook embedded in the joint at the ankle. It totally grossed me out, naturally, it was in hook first! I had to haul her to the emergency room to have it removed. Lucky for her, it caused no permanent damage.
The postscript to this is last May, when I moved her out of the family home, I was cleaning, and under the sofa (a Lane recliner- she loves recliners!) I found some 20 crochet hooks!!! (They must have had a nest under there and multiplied, don't you think???)
That hurts just to think about!
__________________ Denise
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― Spider Robinson
It was really icky to look at, but it didn't hurt her, and there wasn't even any blood- too weird, the crochet hook slipped right into the joint between the bones. Only MY mother......
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