By 11 pm I was three strips away from having all of my blocks cut when a slip of the rotary cutter sent me to the Emergency Room for a fun filled six hours of waiting for my poor finger to be attended to.
This my friends is the result. I won't share the gory picture that my Nursey friends wanted to see, but needless to say I have a bit of an extreme angle now to the tip of my finger. In time it will heal, but I will tell you it hurts like a bugger and has definitely slowed down the quilting!(I am slightly glad that at least I had a nice manicure going on)
Last night, after some pain killers and a big nap I ordered this, a ruler gripper:
Hoping that having my fingers further away from the rotary cutter blade will help! My Husband, who sat with me in the ER, says he is getting me a pair of Kevlar gloves for my birthday :)
My final advice? Be careful out there! This quilting thing could be the Olympics next extreme sport:)
Adrienne
Ouch Adrienne!!
ReplyDeleteOh no! That dos NOT look like fun :( I hope it heals quicker than expected
ReplyDeleteOuch! I hope it heals quickly.
ReplyDeleteOuch. Speedy recovery. But....did you get blood on the fabric???
ReplyDeleteoh no. Hope you are doing better.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry to see your owie! I dropped my open cutter on my foot. No stitches, but I now have a big scar and the habit of closing it every time I put it down.
ReplyDeleteOuch! I'm sorry that's how you had to start what you wanted to be a promising quilting weekend :-( I cringe because this is one of my worst quilting fears.
ReplyDeleteI knew from the title this could not be good... ouch! Hope you heal fast. I have been thinking about the grippy thing for the ruler...maybe this will spring me into action.
ReplyDeleteOh and, yes, nice manicure!
ReplyDeleteOuch!! Have a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteOh, so sorry. I was cutting something tonight a very stupid way and thought about how dumb I was being and stopped. Good reminder.
ReplyDeleteOh no Adrienne, I hope your finger heals quickly, cutting the tip is going to slow you down a bit. I did this in the beginning of January on the first day the kids finally went back after school holidays and all the snow days. But I managed to sliced right up the side of my finger or as my husband says I fillet my finger. My family says maybe I should not be left alone with sharp objects. I even drove myself to urgent care to get stitches. That was after a panic call to my husband because I was in shock and forgot what to do. :) It is healing now and I think once all the skin comes back no one will really be able to notice it and hopefully not so sensitive. The doctor says I was lucky I missed the tendon. I hope yours heals fast keep lots of ointment on it makes a big difference in the scaring.
ReplyDeleteOUCH, you are the second of my blogger friends to do this... yes we love our rotary cutters but they are an extreme sport. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
ReplyDeleteoh, ouch, I hope you get back to quilting quickly!!
ReplyDeleteOuch, ouch, ouch. At least you're right-handed - right?? Heal quickly!!
ReplyDeleteI love my ruler gripper. Have used for quite a few years. Hope you like it. Heal quickly....
ReplyDeleteI love my ruler gripper. Have used for quite a few years. Hope you like it. Heal quickly....
ReplyDeleteouch been there done that, but i only did it once, now i check my fingertips position. lol and because i couldn't quilt i went fabric shopping that weekend. like the colors of your strips, i hope no red got on them.
ReplyDeleteOh my word! Ouch! I'm sorry to hear about the accident. I hope you're back to (just a little slightly less than) 100% soon ; )
ReplyDeleteOUCH!!! I have sewn my finger but never got it with my rotary blade. A word on the gripper, after time it doesn't seem to grip as well. At least mine didn't, but I got mine because of my RA. I hope that you heal quickly!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh Gurrrl! Watch yourself more carefully! You don't win a gold medal for chopping a finger off! Thank goodness it was just the tip (I've also chopped that bit off before, it does come back, haha). Speedy recovery!
ReplyDeleteBeen there, done that and have the tapered finger to prove it. I feel your pain! Heal quick!
ReplyDeleteOMG!!! OUCH! So sorry about that! Hope you heal fast!!
ReplyDeleteOw! I'm a new reader of yours and love your quilts. I've never heard of a ruler gripper but I'm searching for one right now, as my husband as crowned me the Coordination Queen. :) Heal soon!
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