scissors gone!

Thanks to all who took the time to drop me a note

about the favorite scissors on your sewing stands or in your project bags.

And, sorry, gals, but the scissor giveaway winner -

Laura Clever, has claimed her prize!

Congrats! Laura,

your scissors will go into the mail today,

Wednesday, July 6th!

Please let me know what you think of them,

and I'll pass this info on

to a couple of gals who were keeping track of all of the "reviews".

Guess I'm not the only one with a scissor "thing" going on :)

Now, back to "work", so

Happy Stitching everyone!

I'm off to play around on a finish

of a patriotic quilty/thingy to hang on my own wall

(it's pieces and parts are covering up a whole lot of real estate that I really need to re-claim!).

Then, to do some meandering: 

there's a great art quilt commission next in line!

end of June/end of giveaway

As the clock ticks down the last minutes of June (already!!)
I'll end my scissor giveaway...

You have until midnight tonight to leave a comment
about your fav scissor or scissors.
What attributes do you like when you are looking for a new pair? 
Or, which of your scissors is the go-to for a specific project, and why?

This is the giveaway pair:

I've taken a "sister" pair of these Tooltrons 
and put beside my lazy-girl chair
and used them this past week...

and the test was good...
at first, I thought, "oh, no",
as the blades were kind of "grindy".
Grindy is bad...
Then, a couple of empty "snip-snips" and all was well!
And I love them with my hand stitching!

I have worked on a couple of "redwork" pieces
every evening this past week and I really love these little gems!
I have been stitching single thread DMC on cotton,
and also working with single strand Valdani with wool on osnaburg...
I like the serrated blade as it grips the thread- not bends and mauls as it is being cut,
the handles/loops are easy to grab,
and the slightly curved tips are curved "just right" as not to cut into the fabric easily, just enough to lift and cut the threads.

Thanks, gals, for stopping by and letting me know your scissor wants and needs.
I now have a couple of kinds of scissors that I need to try!

It was also good to see
that I am not the only person
that I know
that has major scissor hoarding issues!

giveaway/scissors

I'm still obsessing focusing on the scissor thing...

Yesterday I had a couple of messages concerning the
"current" favorite scissors...
and a couple of gals mentioned that they had not tried the serrated-blade scissors. 

Here are a couple of the latest reviews:


"C" that does quilting and enjoys redwork/stitching likes the little pair of serrated-blade scissors that I mentioned...the little Ginghers.  She also likes the little scissors that were available this spring at her LQS - they had cute finger loops that were butterfly shaped.  I can't find those available at the distributors, so can't even show a photo, but they were cute.


Then I had a message from an out-of-country gal - Tooltron big loops were at the top of her list for snipping threads machine-side.  And, she said, she loves the rubber-coated loops offered on bigger/longer scissors - for less finger pressure/stress with the padding on the handles.

More later....

Don't forget my scissor give-away!

Just leave a comment about your favorite scissors
and I'll put your name into a drawing
for this cute little pair of serrated-blade arrow points!

THE scissors question/giveaway

Yesterday I asked what your
favorite pair of hand work scissors were...
and I'm still looking for more input on that, please...

I have a

couple of pairs

few pairs

OK, many pairs

of small scissors

that go into my travel bag or project bag,

and then there's a pair beside my lazy girl chair

for my nightly stitching routine.

Oh, and the snips for thread at my sewing machine.
(none of these are any of my paper scissors)

OK, I may be a scissor whore...um, collector!

left to right:

1. generic snips with curved tip
2. Havel's curved tip
3. little Ginghers with serrated blades (with the wrong sheath beside them)
4. bigger Ginghers with serrated blades and large loop finger holes

#1  I use the snips at my machine; they cut threads only - and they travel in the machine to retreats.
#2  usually these are beside my lazy-girl chair - their bent tip blades poke holes in my project bags, so they don't travel well.
#3  I like love the serrated blades, but this shorter blade doesn't do well with cutting my wool shapes.
#4  These are probably my fav, because of the ease of grabbing and getting my fingers into the larger loop-hole handles. The blade serrations cut through my wool shapes, all the way down to the tip.  But, they are the most expensive, so I only have the one pair and am continually moving them from one project to another.

So, my scissor review before your input:
A:  I really like the serrated blade scissors the best.
B:   I like the large loop handles for ease of grabbing.
C:  Maybe I need to dedicate a specific pair of scissors just to my wool cutting.

I did just order these little Tooltron beauts:

Arrow point.
Large Loops.
Gold Handles.
Slightly curved tip.
Micro serrated blades. 3-1/2in total length.
And the price is right.

Yep, scissor whore... Oh, yeah, scissor collector...

Soooo, to help celebrate my new-found attribute :)
I'm going to help get you started with your own scissor collection! -
Leave me a comment about 
your scissor preference
and I'll put you in a drawing for
a pair of the Tooltron scissors.
aka: the little beauts.

Happy stitching!