Originally Posted by
Tartan
Here is a picture of my 4 inch thread snips. I LOVE them for there extremely pointed tips that allow me to clip sewn stitches. The spring action is also so easy to use. The curved blade are nice for trimming close to an appliqué to trim threads without cutting the background. The name on the package is Infiniti made by H.A. KIDD and company limited and I got them at my LQS.[ATTACH=CONFIG]518911[/ATTACH]
I have an old pair of snips made mostly of plastic, that I had to buy as part of my tools, when I worked in a swimsuit factory over thirty years ago, and they are still my "go to" for taking out seams (using the clip every third stitch method also) and clipping threads.