Ouch. And also Ew.
Apr. 6th, 2010 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sesquipedaliaticPin stabbings are an everyday fact of a costumer's life, just as paper cuts are unremarkable to a filing clerk. They hurt like hell for a minute, are irritating for an hour, and then disappear entirely.
We're not talking grievous bodily harm here.
Then there's the ouch-worthy work interruptions. Loose a fight with a rotary wheel, get attacked by buckram (stabity stabity!), run the machine needle into a finger.
Not bad enough to warrant medical attention, but painful enough to be, well, a pain.
I had one of those today.
I was sewing a set of paniers into a petticoat, which means shoving heavyweight thread through LOTS of layers of heavy canvas. Thinking ahead, I used a glover's needle (tapered end, used for sewing leather) and grabbed a leather thimble for extra protection. It's not the pointy part of the needle I'm concerned about when sewing heavy fabrics so much as the back end.
Soft fingers + small surface area of needle + pressure = ow!
That equation was my downfall today. I punched the back end of my needle THROUGH the thimble and into my finger.
OW. OW OW OW.
The stabby is unfortunate enough, but the sound a needle makes punching through skin is just GROSS. Blood? Whatever. But the almost-crunch of needle through finger gave me the shivers.
Gaaaa. Just writing that makes my skin crawl.
And yet, so fascinating! I want to do it again (only without the self harm part) because whoa! How can the soft but callused skin of my fingertip make such a loud pop? And where does the crunchy sound come from? Tissue is soft, right? So why can I feel it crunch?
Sometimes, I am a 14 year old boy. Oooh! A bruise! Wonder what happens when I poke it! And I'm gonna scratch at this scab too, JUST BECAUSE I CAN.
In somewhat related news, my awesome bandaid is so awesome that I can work my touchpad with it.
We're not talking grievous bodily harm here.
Then there's the ouch-worthy work interruptions. Loose a fight with a rotary wheel, get attacked by buckram (stabity stabity!), run the machine needle into a finger.
Not bad enough to warrant medical attention, but painful enough to be, well, a pain.
I had one of those today.
I was sewing a set of paniers into a petticoat, which means shoving heavyweight thread through LOTS of layers of heavy canvas. Thinking ahead, I used a glover's needle (tapered end, used for sewing leather) and grabbed a leather thimble for extra protection. It's not the pointy part of the needle I'm concerned about when sewing heavy fabrics so much as the back end.
Soft fingers + small surface area of needle + pressure = ow!
That equation was my downfall today. I punched the back end of my needle THROUGH the thimble and into my finger.
OW. OW OW OW.
The stabby is unfortunate enough, but the sound a needle makes punching through skin is just GROSS. Blood? Whatever. But the almost-crunch of needle through finger gave me the shivers.
Gaaaa. Just writing that makes my skin crawl.
And yet, so fascinating! I want to do it again (only without the self harm part) because whoa! How can the soft but callused skin of my fingertip make such a loud pop? And where does the crunchy sound come from? Tissue is soft, right? So why can I feel it crunch?
Sometimes, I am a 14 year old boy. Oooh! A bruise! Wonder what happens when I poke it! And I'm gonna scratch at this scab too, JUST BECAUSE I CAN.
In somewhat related news, my awesome bandaid is so awesome that I can work my touchpad with it.