Top Tip Of The Day #2 For Anyone Who Sews

[mrs_overall]

If you are sewing and drop a needle on the carpet, do NOT kneel down on the carpet to look for it.
Trust me when I say that a needle embedded straight into your knee with just the eye showing is not a pleasant experience.

[kuulteach]

I nearly nearly knocked myself out while threading my sewing machine. Put my foot flat down on the treacle ...bang right between the eyes. Looked like the mark that Asian women wear and lasted five days. Top that!!!!

[kuulteach]

*treadle

[paddywak]

I was had a 6/0 fishing hook caught in my face. It went in past the barb and and it was either cut the eye off and push it through or face a forty mile tip back to land and a visit to the hospital.It was really painful but at least it was over quickly,mind you a couple of large whisk(e)ys' helped.

[paddywak]

^^^ Once had