A true quilting friend.....
#21
Hope your finger heals quickly. Sorry, have to echo your friend's comment. I pricked my finger with a pin, bled on a baby quilt, tried saliva, then tried hydrogen peroxide--which took out the blood AND the blue colour in the square, then spent more than 2 hours carefully ripping out the damaged piece and resewing a new piece into the block.
#22
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Knock on wood, I have NEVER cut myself with a rotary cutter. But the other day, I stuck myself with a straight pin and didn't notice anything. I picked up some pink batiks a few minutes later and I bleed all over one batiks. Tried sucking the blood off but it didn't come out. I am going to have to work around but it blends in with the pink batik !! Lucky me.
#24
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Join Date: Feb 2014
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Years ago I too cut my finger, didn't get stitches I used Steri Strips and a glove from work (it should have had stitches - but I wanted to keep going and finish). Fast forward, DH was looking at my rotary cutter and I had to go over ALL of the rules - NO using outside, NO using on the hose, NO using on paper, etc...... I also went over not a toy, very sharp can hurt you again, etc..... He walked out of the room, then turned around and came back into see if I would like to "Go Get Stitches In Your FOOT" He had handed me back my rotary cutter open and it had fallen out of my hand as I was trying to avoid the blade, it fell onto my bare foot (I had not said a thing - it hurt, but I was hopping he didn't see it start to bleed - yes we went off for STITCHES). So LOL - I feel you and now if my DH comes around my sewing stuff, I make sure all rotary cutters are CLOSED and I have SHOES ON.
#25
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Kansas
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Hydrogen peroxide does a good job of taking out blood in fabric. (Also if you have a minor scorch mark). Good luck. I have many cuts from rotary cutters but thankfully none needed stitches. Yes, I have a klutz glove but it just does not keep me from cuts especially if I forget to put it on! LOL.
#26
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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When not using my rotary cutter, I tuck it inside my Klutz glove. This way, I always have my cutter and glove together and helps me to remember to use my glove.
#27
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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Knock on wood, I have NEVER cut myself with a rotary cutter. But the other day, I stuck myself with a straight pin and didn't notice anything. I picked up some pink batiks a few minutes later and I bleed all over one batiks. Tried sucking the blood off but it didn't come out. I am going to have to work around but it blends in with the pink batik !! Lucky me.
It worked when I had to get some spots off fabric, I always washed the quilt when it was finished and no spots.
#28
That is a true quilting friend, and my first thought would be if I got blood on the quilt. I think sometimes we forget that the rotary cutter is a very sharp razor like tool. I had a friend who forgot to close the blade on her rotary cutter, it fell off the table where she was cutting fabric, landing on her bare foot and had to go to the emergency room for stitches; and had to be off her feet for a short while. We tell our kids not to run with scissors, we need to remind ourselves to close the rotary cutter immediately after use. It pays to be cautious.
So far, I've only lightly nicked myself with the rotary cutter, but the other day I came dangerously close to running the long-arm needle through my finger. (Makes me shudder just remembering how close THAT was!!) As someone else noted, we really need to be reminded that our "tools" can be rather dangerous.
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