Use mine when I make christmas stockings to trim around the curves. Easier than cutting little snips in fabric.

Hey I have the wood egg darning thing to and moms pinkings shears!
Wonder how many young ones would even know what a wood egg darning thing is.

I have a pair also from my mom, they are craftsmen. still work use them when making kidsclothes

Wow! Is that ever neat! My mom taught me to darn socks, but we used a lightbulb!

I use mine...mainly decoratively. I make little doilies to dress up my canning jars. I also use a rotary pinking blade on the raw edges of fabric before washing it.

Yes, they sell them. I just bought a pair made by Fiskars

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Oh! Thanks for the idea to 'pink' the corners of new fabric before washing. I'm left handed and about four years ago I asked my daughter for left handed pinking shears for Christmas (she asks and I comply) She said she shopped and shopped and finally went on line to find them. At the time I was making costumes out of less expensive fabrics for high school aged grandaughter. Pinking the seams of satin was essential lest I strangle in a cobweb of threads.

I confess to that. I have my Mom's pinking shears and her wooden darning for socks. If she was here she would be 111 yrs old. So my darner and pinking shears are very old.

I use pinking shears to trim a curve. It's easier than clipping.

I use them when I am appliquing and garment
sewing. They are very useful and needed for these
applications.