Art & Craft - an extreme sport?

I'm afraid it is not just children.

I do a number of different crafts regularly injure myself. A few I can remember over the last few years are; (1) treading on a needle and it going right into my foot resulting in stitches as it couldn't be removed without minor surgery. (2) my rule slipping whilst using a circular cutter = cut hand. (3) trying to pull out a nail with a claw hammer = black eye. (4) Dropping hot glue on my leg resulting in several small blisters. (5) Managing some, how, to get my finger under a machine needle, the needle broke leaving half the needle in my finger resulting in more stitches. and (6) almost taking off the top of two fingers when using a new potato peeler. I regularly burn myself on the oven shelves when baking and on the iron when pressing needlework.

I think I need someone to supervise me !

Oh Lord, Ginny! My daughter also manages quite a number of minor injuries, mainly because she can't do anything slowly!

I managed to pierce my thumb quite severely the other day sewing some felt - it was quite thick (several layers) and the needle simply wouldn't go through, so I pushed the end with my thumb, and soon found that the reason it wouldn't go through was because it was upside down and I was trying to push the end with the eye through the felt. Yes, I know, I actually should have gone to Supersavers last August and keep putting off making the appointment....

Supersavers?

Haha Anya - my iMac autocorrects just like iPads and iPhones and I didn't notice that . I'm on my laptop now so I'll be able to type Specsavers without argument!