Thinking about Scissors

As I sat here tonight as my sewing machine, I happened to look down and saw that I had several of my scissors out.  I looked to the left and on the side table I had a few more out.  In the drawer in front of me I had my rotary cutters and another small scissors.  What struck me, was how much I use all of them.

Each pair of scissors has their purpose.  I would never grab my fabric cutting scissors to snip a thread or my applique scissors to cut out a shape in thread.  My embroiderly scissors are primarily used when I embroider and my tiny scissors are used when I am winding bobbins.  If I can’t fing the particular set I want to use to cut something, I will go out of my way to look for it instead of grabbing something else that would do the job (I am not very good at putting things back where they belong.  They usually sit where I last used them).  Because of this, I am motivated to buy more scissors so that I always have the ones on want within arm’s length.

I am very possessive of my scissors, too.  NO ONE in the house can touch my scissors.  If they insist they need them.  I have to see what they are cutting, hand them the right ones, and oversee the whole operation.  It is a running joke in my family about my sewing supplies.  They are the one thing in the house that is all mine and no one else’s.  I don’t want to share.

It just struck me as funny how I have such a small sewing space, but I had to have 4 pairs of scissors out at one time.  On top of that, all of them were in use.

Is it just me?  Do you feel the same way?

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