The worst craft injury I've ever had was actually caused by my ex-boyfriend. We were hot gluing, and we had one of those small glue guns, and he put it on the ground because it was just cement. Well, someone must have moved the cord a little because it ended up turning on it's side and I put my hand down right on the metal tip. It stuck to my hand, and one of my friends had to pull it off. I was apparently pretty funny running around the basement screaming, but I wasn't amused. I had a giant blister on my palm for about three weeks. (he did kiss it and make it better, though.) grin.

-once while home, alone i might add, sewing, i sliced my thumb with a rotary cutter. i cant believe i actually finished that project.
-when i was 5 i was cutting lenoleum blocks for a stamp. the second my mom went downstairs, the tool went into my hand.

otherwise ive had millions of pins needles and hotglue in and on my hands, feet, etc...

I sewed over my finger in home ec once. It wasn't bad just peirced the tip, but its a fun story to tell. yay for glamorous injurys ^.^

I'm pretty much the un-craftiest person here -- probably because I think, "oh, i'll hurt myself with the x-acto knife/glue gun/sewing machine/etc."

You guys are giving me a twisted sort of gung-ho courage! Suffer for your art! :)

I think we could call this thread When Craft Tools Attack!!!

i have superglued fingers on both hands at once to a piece of jewelry--then i tried to call my mom at work (that was too funny) using only a few fingers....

once when i was working for a dressmaker, i seam ripped my finger (oh holy shit) and i still have a very tender scar almost 7 years later--but it's nothing compared my boss clipping the end of her pinky with the electric rotary cutter (twice), and one of the seamstresses sewing a straight stitch right through her index finger on an industrial machine. whoa, baby!

just to add to the whole 'read this and squirm' feel, I was once sanding a bit of wood on one of those rotary sanders you get at school, and my hand sliped and forced my index fingernail onto the sander bit, thus removing the middle part of my nail down to the mush. nice. (ok you can throw up now)

When I make lace or bead knit amulet bags my right hand pointer finger gets skewered by the size 000 or 0000 steel double pointed needles. Eventally I build up a callous, but until then it hurts like heck!
And I have to be careful not to bleed on my work.

My first big Envirotex project came out all screwed up - I didn't mix it right and it was sticky. This being before I discovered Glitter :), I didn't think to do a second coat - I decided to scrape off the sticky bits and do them again. (This was a table, by the way). So I got an old butter knife I use for scraping, and even though I aimed it away from myself I still managed, somehow, to slam it into my hand, scraping off (WARNING: NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH) the skin from the whole side of my hand, just above the wrist, up the thumb, and part of the index finger in one motion. There was this incredible moment of clarity after it happened where I looked down and saw it just before it started stinging and bleeding.

(Anyone have that - the silent pause right when you realize what's happened but the pain hasn't hit yet where you calmly think mundane things like, "Huh, how 'bout that...just got hit by a car" or "Hey, I think I just cut my pinkie off"?)

I gave up on the table right there. I'm really impressed there isn't much of a scar.

Then this other time I set my other hand on fire trying to refill a Zippo lighter. That was kinda cool, 'cause the butane burned off and it didn't hurt a bit.

Strangely enough, with all the inanimate objects attacking me all the time, the glue gun has yet to get me. ;)

i know this is completely irrelevant but its too bizzare not to post. this week in the shower my sisters razor fell from the shower rack. my sister's really paranoid about her stuff so i tried to catch it...i didn't even like close my hand when i went to grab it but just tried to break the fall a bit....it attacked my hand and left a huge chunk of skin gone and then crashed to the floor breaking. it was one of the most bizzare injuries i ever received...sorry to be irrelevant and graphic..but i had to tell someone.

hey arnie - was that a venus?! i totally injured myself with one of those a few weeks ago, took a chunk right out of my finger!

Anyhoo - i was in a book binding class a couple of years ago, and i usually sprawled out in the living room and did my thing there, i guess i must have left some stuff out, and my mom just dropped a bunch of things into my bag including an x-acto knife blade. Came home from class late one night, reached into the bag for my key, and almost sliced the corner of my finger off. Needed stitches, went to emerg. and waited until 7am for the doc. to see me, and then they promptly put a bandage on me and shuffled me out. THAT was a fun night.

Guess I'd qualify as a "stabber". I try to avoid handsewing (even a button) because inevitably I stab myself with the needle.

The very worst was when I walked into a 3mm knitting needle protruding from the knitting basket. It punctured my trousers and went right into my knee. Oucchhhh! I had a big puncture mark on my knee for days!

It didn't hurt that much, but ugh, I feel queasy just thinking about it.