Last week, I wrote about the battered hands of people who make things and I used my own poor hands as examples. I heard from lots of you about your hands (and feet, and shoulders, and knees!) It is clear that artists and crafters and antiquers are willing to go to heroic lengths in pursuit of their passion!
I can’t resist sharing my favorite comments with you (I edited some of them slightly, for consistency). If you’re not familiar with these wonderful bloggers and the things they make and sell, you should take a peek!
Yeah, I have sliced open my foot with a rotary cutter before . . . Hello, emergency room! (http://papooseclothing.blogspot.com/)
Mine are minor, mostly hot glue gun burns . . . hammered my thumb more than a few times, and got my arm caught up in my rose bush. Nothing major thankfully! (http:/monpetitchateaudecor.wordpress.com)
As an antiques dealer, my scars don’t show but are definitely present in my everyday. My aching body reminds me of my passion more often than I prefer! (But I wouldn’t trade it for the world!) (homeologymodernvintage.com)
Scars from my life of antiquing are mainly a left shoulder that has a torn rotator cuff or tendons that I got trying to carry “my end” of a piece of furniture that outweighed me by a lot! My husband forgets that he is a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than me and I get “my half” . . . Craft scars . . . hmm. Lots of cuts, punctures, burns, a dining room carpet covered by a gallon bucket of gesso, bending over the sewing machine so close that I caught the thread feed in the forehead . . . I once was sprinting to the door to catch the (really cute) UPS man and tripped and tackled the portable ceramic heater. So he heard a big crash and I answered the door with bleeding kneecaps and hiding a burned arm! “Are you OK?” Oh yes . . . fine . . . yikes. (hopeandjoyhome.blogspot.com)
I don’t have scars from vintage hunts, but I do have a nice callus from my crochet hook and sometimes pricked fingers from cross-stitch and sewing!! Boy, it hurts when you get jabbed in the finger from a needle! (magnoliasattic.blogspot.com)
I’ve done the hot sugar thing too! Well, it was at a campfire, and someone’s marshmallow caught fire and they flung it onto my finger (ouch!) I still have the scar. In general though, I’m just a clumsy sewer. I’m always stabbing accidentally stabbing myself! (jessthetics.wordpress.com)
Yep, there are lots of scars. One time I put the drill bit of the Flex Shaft into the webbing of my thumb and first finger (yes I reversed and pulled it right back out). There are lots of cuts and you can tell I sew a lot! The one thing I always dreaded getting was “weaver’s bottom”. That is when you sit at the loom a lot, rocking back and forth and for some reason weavers tend to have a little more padding on their bottoms for cushioning! (shuttlehookandneedle.blogspot.com)
I don’t consider a project finished until I’ve bled on it. Eww, I know. But that’s how I put my heart in my work. (creatingmiranda.wordpress.com)
I was heartened to know that we are a sisterhood (no men admitting scars so far!) of battered but brave, scarred but not scared, marred but marvelous makers!
And how about you? Have you marks from your making that you’ve yet to share?
OMG .. Fortunately I didn’t experience anything like that while making my designs. I got shivers just by reading all these comments 🙂 I’m not cut out to be a nurse haha..
I know! Some of their stories were so much worse than the ones I had originally shred, I just had to post them!
I love that idea: the SBBCVH= ‘The Sisterhood of the Battered and Bruised Crafters and Vintage Hunters’ (men allowed;0))
It has a real ring to it! I might have to save that for future iterations of the post!
Almost all my work ends up with a little blood, sweat, tears included. When I say that I mean it literally. I get a manicure about once or twice a year for special occasions,otherwise why waist the money. It is usually ruined by the end of the day.
LOL–so true. My hands always look worse than the rest of me!
I don’t have too many scars from my creative work, though I did carve right into my hand once with a linoleum carving tool. Yowch! When I get bad cuts, it’s usually in the kitchen!
The kitchen counts! But, really, that lino cut sounds scary–eek!
These are so funny…and so relateable!
My only trip to the ER was from trying to take the end of my finger off with an xacto knife!
Probably a good thing you did go to the ER–that sounds scary! And you need your fingers!
I’ve gotten lots of burns and cuts over the years when I was preparing food and cooking it.
Those definitely count!
Oh, I’m so glad I’m not the only one with injuries sustained while crafting! I’ve pricked my finger with a needle more times than I care to remember and cut myself with a rotary cutter once – that bled an awful lot 😉 Also, I ripped out my hair once as it got stuck in the moving bits of the sewing machine…
Jeepers! The one with the hair in the sewing machine really got to me!
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