JENNR8R

At my guild's Christmas party this year we were given a goody bag full of quilty stuff. The pictured device was included, and I don't know what it is. It is 6" long and the 1.5" metal tip is serrated but not sharp like a razor blade.

Has anyone seen one of these before?

QuiltingVagabond

It's a seam ripper, you hold the fabric taut and rip the threads down the middle. One of my friends likes this best.

JENNR8R

Thanks! It's an eyebrow trimmer. I found this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lay_rDTcLXE

Onebyone

It's a seam ripper. Gypsy Quilter has one: Rip It Away Seam Ripper by Gypsy Quilter

I've seen them at Walmart, JoAnns, Hobby Lobby and in quilt shops. Several different brands of them available. It was a new notion about a decade ago when someone discovered the eyebrow shape tool would work as a seam ripper.

Jingle

I have seen it but didn't know what it was.

Tartan

​It is an eye brow trimmer that can be used to cut threads but be careful since it will also cut fabric in the seam line

Jordan

I agree with most. It looks like a seam ripper.

QuiltE

This should make for some interesting conversations at your next Guild meeting.
Meanwhile, I can imagine the emails that are flying around the membership.


I know it has been already ID'd ....
... my first thought in seeing it was that it might be used to "shave" fuzz-balls
that grow on sweaters and such.

maviskw

This would be so much quicker if you had someone/something else holding the top end. I put mine under the needle, lower the needle into the fabric, then use the left hand to pull the fabric taut and away from the fabric from which you are trying to separate it, and the right hand to slice the thread that is taut. Goes really fast and really works. You don't need to pull too hard; just enough so that one of the sewing threads is taut. That's the one you want to cut.

Another thing: when you do it this way, the scrap threads are a little longer because the only one that gets cut is the tight one. That makes clean up easier.

Of course, left handers would switch sides.

P-BurgKay

It is of course a seam ripper. I received mine at a quilting class. I then gifted the members of the guild one for Christmas that year. They were a big hit. So much cheaper at a quilt shop than at a boutique.