I always thought of my self as a real optimistic, but does this picture really say that? Looks rather pessimistic to me, Like I just know I'm gonna need more than one!! LOL

Thankx for the laugh!

You beat me, I recently found 4.
Colleen

Beats my four!

I have one that came with each of my 7 machines, plus 4 or 5 others that I just had to have. And I am always looking for them,.....sigh.....

Maybe you're like me, where you keep misplacing them, so you buy another one, and that's how you got so many.

I find myself slowly getting there too!!

Are you expecting to take out that many stitches. LOL

Which one is your favorite???

I have two. Guess that make me an optimist:>

My fav is the first one I lay my hands on, LOL I do not as a rule loose things, i may not remember where I put it last, but I do find it sooner or later. the little red one is one I have had for over 50 years.(have no idea where the cap is for it, but it is around here some where) I just took the EZ folding one out of the pkg, today, have not tried it as yet. I have one or two at each machine and easy chair where I do hand work.

I think you win the "seam ripper collection" contest. :thumbup:

I have a lot too but I don't know where they all are. And when I need one, I need it right now. I just bought one today that is like your brown handled one next to the yellow one. I have several like that cream colored one on the end. I have a blue one that you don't have in that pic but I hate it. It has a little burr or something on the tip and it snags. I tried sanding it and it didn't work so I just quit using it. I think it's a dritz.

Must be a variety thing, minute I loose one all are suddenly on vacation with it. :)

Try a emery board or nail polisher to knock off burrs, helps with pins that end up with a little burr also :)

I think you could use a few more:wink:...like the Fons & Porter or the other green one (can't remember the brand).

I have 4 of the examples you display there, and another 3 besides...(need one for every sewing box)...

according to the Law of Inverse Probability (if you're prepared to deal with it, it will not happen), you are optimistic. ;-)

Maybe that's why when I worry and am concerned about something it never happens but if I let it go... oh wow how something so small could dare be a problem. Absolutely love your law of inverse probability! I'm so relieved to be optimistic!

I'm feeling good now....i only have two LOL

I have a couple but rarely use them. Those pointy things are awful, never use them. Occasionally use the surgical seam rippers, but usually use my fiskars scissors if I need to remove a seam.

I just counted and I have 7. I have one of the folding seam rippers and I love it. I never have to worry about losing the top.

OMG - that looks like an operating room with all of the surgical instruments layed out! LOL

I'm with you, I have alot of them too.. Its bothersome when they get misplaced so If i have a cupful I don't have to waste time searching for them when I'm sewing- and yes i do do Rip, Rip, Rip... but thankfully not every time!!!


Hmmm, maybe we just like notions..... Yup, that's my story and I'm stickin to it!!!

LOL, you just have an awesome collection going there!

Isn't the cap on the handle?

I don't know how many I have, but they are all over the place - I think I even have one here at the puter desk. Ya never know when you will need one. LOL

Ha!! I think you are an Optimistic Realist!!

I think they are a "just in case" tool to have! I vote optimistic!

beware: the quilt police will be coming soon to confiscate any and all rippers pocketed during sit 'n sews.

I had the same seam ripper for about 20 years. I was, needless to say, always hunting for it. One day, in 1999, while out and about with my son, he said, "let's go in here," and he proceded to walk me into a quilt shop (!!!) He led me to the ripper section. "it's time to buy a new one, mom."

So I did. And threw the old one away, even. It's the one I currently use. I do have a 2nd one that came with my bernina in 2000. It's my absolute favorite. so tiny.

they dare not try. in fact, i'll go so far as to say they had better not even think about it.

if i had to give up my ripper, i'd have to give up quilting.

fat chance of that. :lol:

watch for flashing batik lights in your rearview. at the first sighting, call us. we'll be there in a jiffy, rotary blades loaded and ready to come to your defense. ;-)

OK! but which one is you favorite??

Clover, I think she need that too.

[quote=trueimage]OMG yes it is LOL I so did not remember that, thank you!!!! LOL oh can not get over that LOL

If I gathered and lined up all of my glasses in my sewing room, I would have just as many as you do seam rippers. You may have the same problem with your rippers as I have with my glasses. I can never find them when I need them.

I must be an optimist. I don't even know where a seam ripper is! I know I have a couple but I never use them. I use my thread snippers if I have to take out a seam. I don't unsew the way most people do either. I just cut every 4th to 6th stitch on one side only and then pull the whole thread on the other side. I never rip down thru the middle of the fabrics.

no.. just really prepared! LOL

Not quite there yet.............but maybe could outdo you before toooo long...who knows!

I thought I had a lot with my seven, but you beat me!!!

Not pessimistic, not optimistic. Just prepared!

And doesn't it seem like the minute you throw something away, you end up needing it the very next week? Waste not, want not, that's my motto. Now to figure out what to do with all those darn scraps.......

oh, my some of these look like surgical knives.