Nothing drives me more crazy than when someone walks off with a pair of my scissors! Or worse, uses them to cut open a popsicle! Eek! I always have a pair of scissors, even if I’m not carrying a cross stitch project on me. I think the only time I left the house without scissors was this past summer when we went on vacation, because I knew the airport would take them out of my bag and I’d never get to use them. In general I keep a pair of travel scissors in my purse, right now they are just cheapo embroidery scissors that I got from the dollar store, nothing fancy or spectacular because they run the risk of getting lost. In fact, at one point my travel scissors were a pair of purple handled round tipped kids craft scissors! You know the ones with the big plastic handles. They were fiskars and cut pretty good for being kids scissors, in fact they are still in the kids craft bin.
On my desk and in my tote bag I keep my regular embroidery scissors, usually in a little leather scissor sheath. Remember with your good scissors you want to protect the points. It’s also a good practice to have different scissors for different fibers. In particular if you use metallics like Kreinik metallic braid and blending filaments because those fibers can wear down your scissors over time and you won’t get a clean cut. A good way to tell them apart is to buy scissors with different colored handles or different colored sheaths. If you’re using scissors that are the same or don’t have sheaths to mark you can attach scissor fobs to the handles, they’re decorative and help identify the scissors easily. A weighted scissor fob will also keep your scissors from falling into the cushions of the sofa or recliner while you’re stitching.
Of course my sewing bin has a completely different kind of scissors in it for cutting heavy fabrics and quilting. I’ve got a standard pair of 8 inch multipurpose scissors that I use pretty frequently and they are sharp! But, recently someone turned me toward the Fiskars soft touch scissors. They may look a little odd, but whoa they work good and I can cut through old jeans for making denim quilts without getting those pesky hand cramps. They make a softouch rotary cutter - 45mm too, but I haven’t gotten my hands on one of those yet.
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Hey Loretta, Thanks for stopping by my blog the other day…I wanted to let you know the pics of the Angel Quilt are up…and here’s the link - http://thediygirl.blogspot.com/2007/04/pictures-pictures.html
I am very protective of my scissors. Nothing makes me madder than to see my fabric scissors being used to cut paper. grrr. My family is well aware of my rule!