Cari-in-Oly

I love my tweezer snips. I bought mine from Walmart online, I buy a lot of sewing/quilting stuff there. They have much more online than they do in the stores.

Cari

oldtnquiltinglady

Me, too, JMiller. Ummmmmmmmmmmm, dog bone? New one on me--or should I say "I learn something new every day.

And, I, too am of the scissors/snips crowd. Those thread cutters never did work for me--too awkward and I guess I am just too set in my own ways to try to make something that I am not accustomed to, work. The HV has automatic thread cutters that you push a button to make it work, and it cuts the thread so short that you are sure that it won't pick up for the next seam, but it does. I did get used to using that one.

lots2do

I didn't know there was a cutter on a FW.

B Sisson

I use a scrap of fabric called starters and another when the seam in done called an ender. I cut the threads with a small pair is scissors. You save thread by using a starter and ender.

Cari-in-Oly

I use thread bunnies too as much as possible, but sometimes it's not possible. For instance, stops and starts while quilting in the middle of a quilt.

Cari

ThayerRags

What’s a “thread bunny”? My wife and I use leaders and enders.....

CD in Oklahoma

Cari-in-Oly

Leaders and enders to me means sewing small parts of quilt blocks at the beginning and end of sewing other quilt parts, a la Bonnie K. Hunter. A scrap of fabric being used at the beginning or end of sewing to me is a thread bunny. Other terms I've heard is thread mouse or spider.

Cari

ThayerRags

Thanks Cari.

CD in Oklahoma

tenngal

Same here - I'd rather have the walking foot on it than a threadcutter. My walking foot stays on one machine and I piece wiith another machine.

manicmike

I'd assumed Cari had been using auto correct on a phone

I use the thread cutter only when I've left the thread snips at the other side of the room, and yes the cutter never works very well.
Even if you use it and it works as well as it can, you're still left with a dog-eared bit of thread,and if it comes out of the needle for any reason (like you haven't noticed the thread bar is quite low), you'll have to reach for the snips anyway so you can re-thread it. My latest 201 didn't come with one, and I haven't really missed it. Hmm... now I'm thinking blu-tack the snips case to the machine or tie them on the machine somewhere. Those ones listed second in pocoellie's URL are $1.50 at my local shop, and I buy them three at a time when I go to the shop: When demonstrating a machine, I'll use them and if the buyer hasn't seen them before, they always love them and I let them have the snips with the machine. Such a cheap but amazingly useful tool.