Any mishaps while crafting?

Ohhh, man, oh man!
I’ve been doing crafts for over 50 years now and thought I’d already made or experienced every possible blunder.
But you never stop learning. Today I’m sitting here knitting a (thank goodness) small figurine. Anything that doesn’t involve counting or special attention, I knit pretty much “by feel.”
I think I must have slipped with the needle once and hurt my fingernail. But I took a look—everything was fine—and carried on. The next time I looked at my work, I thought a horse had kicked me. It was all covered in blood—my work ruined—what a mess!
Have any of you ever had a particularly embarrassing mishap while crafting? Let me know.
Maybe it’ll cheer me up a bit :)
Love, Petra

Ouch, that hurts! Probably not so much the finger, but the stains on the handiwork.
I've spilled coffee now and then too, but luckily that washes out easily. But I can't remember any more serious injuries.

Yeah, Ida, the finger’s no big deal. But the little figurine is ruined. :(
Oh well, I’m already working on the next one.

My worst mishap wasn’t my own fault—it was caused by my cat, who bumped into a thick candle, which then tipped over and spilled its wax all over my almost-finished crochet project.... It’s almost impossible to iron that out of acrylic yarn, so I threw it away in a fit of rage and had to start all over again.

Oh Mel, that’s really annoying. But you’re not mad at the cat, are you? There are tons of photos and videos online of cats who’ve “done” similar things :)

No, the cat was more startled than I was (he knows he’s not allowed on the table), and I was glad he didn’t burn himself.

Yes, Petra, I’ve had a mishap too, though luckily not one involving bodily harm. ;-)

I also often knit “blind” when there’s nothing to count.
The most annoying thing for me was when, with a nearly finished project, I suddenly realized I’d miscounted somewhere and the jacket didn’t have two matching sides. Luckily, that was quite some time ago. And ever since then, I’ve been careful to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

And yes, I’ve also drowned my almost finished crochet project in coffee when I bumped into the table. I started it over; that was easier. Of course, I learned from that experience too, and now I carefully keep my coffee separate from my crochet and knitting projects.

Well, there would be much more to tell, for example mistakes I discovered later. But luckily, they were always so well hidden that only I could see them. ;-)

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

Best wishes 
Monika

Hi, Petra,
I’d say that’s a “hand-dyed” mishap. Your finger’s all healed up by now, right?

I have a neighbor with a cat. She’d been trying out a new pattern—she hadn’t written it down yet—and had already knitted about 10 cm of the back piece when she had to go to the bathroom. When she came back, her little cat had the yarn in his paw, gave her a mischievous look, and ran through the entire apartment with the yarn, knowing full well that he was unraveling that piece... The pattern was gone and now had to be “reinvented.”

Best, Traudelina

Since I’m also a cat owner (or rather, my tomcat owns me), there are plenty of “awful” stories :-)
But I actually had that blood-ruined crochet piece happen to me recently, too. I have to admit, rather embarrassingly: I’m a picker. If I have some stupid little bit of skin on my nail or finger, I keep picking at it. And then, every now and then, it bleeds without you really noticing :-\/ So I only noticed that warm feeling on my light yellow shawl when it was already ruined.
Well, since I (like everyone here) have plenty of supplies in my stash, I just had to start the shawl over again...

I once wove in the ends on a piece and, unfortunately, not only cut off the tail but also cut through a stitch, so I had to unravel quite a bit of it.

Unfortunately, this happens to me quite often: when I’m sewing pieces together, I end up catching more than just the two seams I’m supposed to. When I then lift the piece up, it’s often not just the sleeve that’s sewn in, but the entire front panel sewn together with the back panel as well.

And once, when I was trying to carefully loosen the thread with a pair of small scissors, I accidentally cut into the back piece. That happens much faster than you’d think.
Since then, I haven’t used scissors anymore to unpick an already assembled piece.

I had a mishap this week, too:

When I’m crocheting on the sofa, I’m often careless and stick the sewing needle into the sofa to my left when I’m not using it... (No problem with this sofa :))

So, I was sitting (or rather lying) there a little differently than usual... completely absorbed in my crochet project, I made my usual movement and stabbed the needle right into my thigh...

I guess I deserved it ;)

When crocheting amigurumi, I like to make the legs first so I can join them and then move right on to the body.

So here’s what happened:
the body is almost done—and of course already firmly stuffed—I set the piece down and look at it, a bit confused: the legs aren’t the same length.

So I counted the rounds: everything matches… I look at the pictures and see that I made the first leg with a larger crochet hook…