It Finally Happened

All these years of sewing, it finally happened. I sewed through my finger. Yikes! No pictures of that, don't worry, just a picture of the broken needle.

It all happened so fast that I couldn't even tell you what my mistake really was. Bad timing of taking my foot off the pedal and moving my hands into the needle area. I'm really thankful it was just a glancing blow on the side of my left ring finger, not too close to the cuticle, and not in the fingernail. (always the nightmare possibility to me). So phew on "lucking out" I guess, only a bandaid required. 

So yeah, it's definitely time to quit quilting for the day. I really should know better than to keep quilting when I'm tired. 

One of those lessons learned for good now I hope!
 

First Fabric Foray of 2021

As part of the birthday celebrations for friend Jaye, we met up at Modern Handmade. This was the picture I took in the shop as I was piling up bolts for cutting. A couple of these were 50% off which was cool.

 And I added a few FQ's too, as well as giant orange/white zipper, and the new Chrome Schmetz quilting needles that are all the rage. I had wanted to try some, and Modern Handmade had them. Hopefully I'll remember the next time I'm quilting something (like the Lone RR perhaps?!)

I just washed all of this new fabric, and had a major mishap with the red 😞 but more on that later.

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