How do you use your pinking shears?
08-21-2024, 03:26 AM
#13
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Join Date: Jul 2024
Posts: 52
I've tried several brands and ended up donating them. One pair was impossible to open and close with one hand, and even loosening the screw didn't help. All three pairs were so heavy and the two that I could use one handed, were simply just too hard to use more than a couple of snips before they were too hard to open and close. They just don't make them like they used to. The pair my mom had - it was gold in color - don't remember the brand, were great, but unfortunately misplaced after my mom no longer sewed in my high school years, so she must have given them away.
08-21-2024, 05:21 AM
#15
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Oregon
Posts: 3,373
When I started sewing in the dark ages, I used them for finishing the edges of seams in all my kids' clothes I made. It took no thread and little time to keep the seam allowances from fraying. I don't sew many clothes anymore, but I still do that when I do, even though I have a serger.
08-21-2024, 05:57 AM
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 2,099
I edge finish anything I sew except knits that don’t ravel anyway. I used my pinking shears here in this photo, for example, along with my serger, but I do this on all my quilts. I cringe when I hear ‘take a scant quarter inch seam’. My seams are the full qt inch and then I pink the very tip on the seam allowance. After all my work, I don’t want pieces to ravel out. On long runs, like joining borders to blocks, I use my serger. Like I said I edge finish everything. You asked and I’m just saying this is me.
Another thing is, my mom had a heavy pair that used to cut good. I have them but they are hard to use . They don’t open & close well anymore. However, I do have a lighter pair I love. A church member died and her family passed a lot on to me. I don’t know the brand but they are green and white, so not the heavy metal like my momma’s were. They cut really well and don’t hurt my hands.
Another thing is, my mom had a heavy pair that used to cut good. I have them but they are hard to use . They don’t open & close well anymore. However, I do have a lighter pair I love. A church member died and her family passed a lot on to me. I don’t know the brand but they are green and white, so not the heavy metal like my momma’s were. They cut really well and don’t hurt my hands.
