Operating machinery

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

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!

"Polly Esther" wrote in message ...

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! 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
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

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Best Regards
Pat on the Green

"Polly Esther" wrote in message
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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

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 ):

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!! Hope you're feeling better soon.

Maureen

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.


--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas

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
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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.

I don't know what 'That Purple Thang' is (please fill me in on that one!)
but I got me this:
http://de.dawanda.com/product/290647...=product_title ,
although not at that price; mine is from the local farmers market for 1
Euro.

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!).

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 in Palm Bay

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:15:50 -0600, "Polly Esther"
wrote:

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

On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:15:50 -0600, Polly Esther wrote:

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

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