craftgrrl | SEAMSTRESS DOWN!!! SEAMSTRESS DOWN!!! (Reply)

Okay, so last night the single scariest thing to ever happen to me while sewing happened:

I sewed my finger *into* the machine.

Somehow my finger got sucked in while the fabric was threading through. The needle actually made a couple of perfect little stitches in red thread on my fingertip before jamming up. Amazing.

My partner was PANICKING. Running around screaming "OMG! SHOULD I CALL 911?! SHOULD I CALL 911?!"

I calmly wound the machine up with my free hand to get the needle out of my finger, cut the thread, pulled my finger out... took a moment to marvel at the little red stitches in my finger-tip... and then pulled them out. I then wrapped the little wound in scrap fabric and sent my partner to the kitchen for ice (and a chill-pill, haha).

My finger's "fine" (which means a lil' dried blood under the nail and sensitive if I bang it into something really hard, but otherwise good) and I was back at the machine in less than an hour (hey, I got Christmas gifts to finish).

Sooooo I was wondering:

What's the scariest thing that's ever happened to you while making crafts or sewing???

I think it will be fun to read these... cuz you know, if we don't learn to laugh at these lil' accidents we'll never get back in there and tackle whatever it was again ;)