Craft-injuries

My little accident yesterday made me think about accidents while crafting / because of crafting.

Especially the comment about the needle in the arm.. Whoa! I do believe that the doctor couldnt find anything - the needles are small, and the flesh does not leave traces of being punctured, but closes up around the needle very quickly.

I once read a thread on Craftster about craft related injuries. It was hilarious, but also very disturbing - are we really so stupid? The answer is: Yes!


I have:

• Sewn myself in the finger
• Cut myself silly, 5-6 times, while trying to do Linoleum Carving
• Cut my finger with the rotary cutter
• and with a hobby knife while cutting paper
• Punctured my skin with a knitting needle
• Glued myself to a craft project
• Pinned myself to my sweater, back when I was using my sweater to hold sewing pins
• Gotten a burn mark from pulling a coarse yarn quickly over my wrist
  
• Cut the flesh between thumb and index finger while plying with scissors
• And, of course, my Super Stupid Needle Stunt of yesterday
• Stuck countless needles and pins into my fingers, under my nails and other tender places

Phew! I think those are the most common injuries - good thing. Just imagine if we were all, say, doing Moto-cross driving, we would be filling up ER's and doctors offices all over the world. Of all the "Stupidities" up there, only one required a doctor :)

Have a really nice day

/Lene

PS: I didnt know you read my blog, Nurhanne! I taught myself to knit lace from your website, copying down the line-by-line instructions for little doilies and knitting them with a free, ugly, ginormous ball of Gotland Singleply... Those were the times... ;)