Different Scissors for Different Uses
 

I have a pair of bent blade scissors which I purchased to use when machine embroidering. The tips lay flat to the fabric surface. You can even pick a stitch w/the sharp points.

Owing to arthritic hands/fingers, I found they were easier to pick up than the ones that lay flat.

Later I used then to clip to a seam, trim threads and to trim an edge. I already knew they were sharp to the point and trimming with them was sooo nice. Now I keep them at the sewing machine and will purchase another pair to use at the ironing station.

Thank you for the tip. I have RA and have been having trouble with my hands lately and will be buying me a pair.

I love new scissors. I don't have this kind. I also want spring ones for rag quilts, if I ever decide to do one. Joann's here I come! My cutting table is an old computer desk. I use the pull out keyboard shelf, lined with a mat, for my scissor collection.

I use that type to trim threads from paper piecing!! Works great.

barking-rabbit. I bought the spring clip scissors at the dollar tree for a buck. Yea, they work, so then I went back and got a second pair. They are in the garden section. they are garden snips actually. I use them on my rag quilts and save on my good fiskars spring scissors.

I have springy snip type scissors that i bought specifically for rag quilts but now i keep them with me at all stages of sewing. They really save my fingers from a lot of aches. I hope to eventually get every available type of springy scissor.

I agree about the bent blade scissors !!! i LOVE mine....and i keep a pair of small sharp pointed for snipping threads at the machine. So many of the really nice scissors are just too heavy for these sore old hands.

I use the Fiskars scissors all the time and for seam ripping and snipping I use these(#6204) from http://www.mygoodscissors.com/ThreadNippers.htm

I have a pair of duck bill Gingher scissors that I use for when I am cutting close to the quilt.