MY 12 year old used my fabric scissors to open a bag of popcorn. Is there any point keeping them?

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Or shall I just drop them off at the bus station with a tenner and tell them they need to make their own way in life from this point on?

Do you do a lot of sewing? Have you tried to thread a needle when the thread’s been cut with blunt scissors?

There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to cut and the scissors just saw at the fabric. Or run smoothly then hitch over a damaged blade so your edges are nicked.

Scissors used for cutting fabric, often with a sewing pattern pinned in place as guidance.

I would of thought any scissors would cut fabric. Is this for making clothes?

Well, if they're sharp enough, any scissors will do cutting. But scissors which have been used for paper will blunt quickly and you end up having to sort of saw at the fabric to cut it, which tends to give you frayed fibres and uneven edges. Also, fabric scissors usually have the blades at angle to the handles, so you could run the one under the fabric flat on the table or other cutting surface, whereas everyday scissors, you'd risk jabbing the point into the table.

Genius. I need a couple of combination locks for mine. They are well hidden but even so...

I found my fabric scissors in DH's work bag. He's been using them to cut plaster casts off patients 😭

I used to work in the haberdashery department of a well-known department store.
FABRIC scissors were heavily guarded and staff from other floors would try to pinch them and use them for such horrific things such as opening deliveries, cutting someone out of a dress that was a size too small but the woman swore blind that was her usual dress size and the dress was faulty and horror upon horrors, we lost a pair to the carpet department!!!!
Every night, we would hide the scissors, text each other where they were hidden and we had several staff meetings about why the scissors were precious and to stop taking them or the whole department would be held responsible.
I lost count of the amount of ladies who would come in for new scissors while dragging some useless bloke behind her going 'I didn't realise that I couldn't use those scissors', 'it is just a pair of scissors' etc. I always enjoyed the man crying at the till paying for new Fiskars while the frustrated woman told everyone about what 'the prat I married' (insert favourite swear word) did with her fabric scissors. One woman told her husband that she would use her embroidery scissors to cut his balls off if he dared use her scissors for anything that he thought he would need them for.

I think so too, when dd cuts her fabric she hems it anyway doesn’t just leave the raw edge of fabric on show so don’t really see why it would be an issue how the edges look!
But I can’t sew on a button so really struggling to see why this is a big deal at all 😂

How could they not know!

If I use the fabric scissors my family have been at, then I never get a clean cut in the fabric. They chew up the fabric, and are ever so slightly misaligned so the fabric pieces don't match up when I'm sewing seams.

I'm sure I could cope with it, but I shouldn't have to. It would be like trying to cut a loaf of bread with a table knife. Yes you'd make it through and get a lump of bread afterwards, but the bread would be squashed, squint and fall apart. Indict want that for my bread and definitely wouldn't want it for my fabric.

Any scissors can cut fabric in much the same way that any knife can cut fresh bread and any brush can be used to paint a wooden windowframe. The right tool for the job does the job so much better.

I hadn't read @Hiddendoor 's post yet when I typed mine, obvs😁

i keep mine in a box and lots of cheap ones all over the house and kitchen

😂 The arrogance!

Go to the hairdressers and invite her to cut your hair with scissors her kids use for arts & crafts. Or the scissors she used to wallpaper her bedroom. See if those are ‘just fine and fit for purpose’.

Did he manage to use them to cut the casts off his own broken legs?

I caught my husband in the shower washing his bits in my expensive Clinique facial soap once.

@Poolstream - I have the stork embroidery scissors from Ernest Wright (the company linked to earlier). They’re great - sharp, accurate and likely to outlast me.

I am fanatical about sewing scissors. Like others here, I’ve filled the house with cheapo scissors from Ikea so nobody feels the need to use my sewing scissors. Ever. At all.

They ran away with the socks that go missing from the dryer.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 😉

Awwww fabric scissors.. I remember my mum having a pair when I was a kid. Shes got a strip of plaster fabric (the stuff you get on a roll) and written “burgers mums” and “do NOT use” on some and wrapped them and a handle each. Never did touch them and never really knew why the protectiveness! And that was in the 80s/90s!!!! Now I know! Also, thanks for bringing back a happy memory!! 💐💐

<sings> you would have done the same.

Maybe we should bring back chatelaines?

No money required just release them to wild where they belong!!!

Ps in regards to the Ferrari analogy- absolutely correct! Love from a mechanic and sewing enthusiast 🤣

If there’s a jagged nick in the fabric edge, when you edge it you don’t catch the nick so it can fray from that point and weaken the seam.

I have a scissor fixation, too.
The blue IKEA kitchen scissors are great. I have a 6yo pair that are still just as sharp as the 1yo. On the kitchen rail free for all.
An assortment of school and craft scissors accumulated over the years in a DD-made pot on the desk, some with name rings.
Manicure set and baby nail scissors (so cute!).
Rotary cutters (do not get a nick in those blades or they’re worse than useless), maybe 6. Along with cutting mat and rulers of all shapes and sizes.
Slide-along guillottines (sp?) one for paper one for fabric.

And a special pincushion with a fabric loop to attach my embroidery scissors. Something like this.

@KeirSpoutsTwaddle

have you seen this version?

Sorry for the derail everyone else.

@sashh That's brilliant! I've never seen it before, thanks for sharing, I LOVE Chicago