same here!! They just don't don't know where else to prick.

Do you perhaps *look* like a pincushion? LOL. Perhaps it's a good time to mention that there are worse possibilities. A friend has sewn into her finger with her sewing machine, and I've read on a list that someone has sewn with a machine into her breast(whilst trying to remove a bobbincase threadnest)-yikes! Ouchies!!!!

Have leant now to keep a big box of tissues beside my sewing machine to stop the flow.....lol sometimes have wondered where the little red dots have come from.

Same reason they like all of us... Their out for BLOOD! hehehe

Everytime I stick myself the first thing I do is check for blood and then say oh thank goodness I didn't bleed on the project!

Hmmm nasty!. Here's a tip. Chew up a length of cotton thread into a spitty ball (yeah I know.. yuckky!!) then gently rub it over any blood spots on your work. Thread and spit absorb the blood. If there is a lot of blood.. get chewing!!

After reading some of these I think I will gladly stick myself with the pins! This is also the point where a little swearing is common, lol!

My daughter explained that to me years ago. It's a pin's magnet, most often in the right hand index fingertip. I'm glad we are not the only family with that genetic disorder. :)

Cos the bone of a sewer thinks A thimble it is yet if you didnt get a pin prick to keep you alert you would end up pinning it to your skirt LOL