Keeping my scissors handy
 

After decades of 'searching' for my scissors while sitting at the machine, after trying many different tricks to save myself, I finally found, by simple mistake, a method that works great for me!!

I had been removing clamps from a basted quilt on the sewing table, just reclipping them along the edge of the tabletop as I undid them.

Some of them were still there a day later when I used my scissors to trim a thread. Viola, I reached over and slipped the point of the scissors down into the 'handle' of one clamp closest to me where it was attached to the edge of the table. The handles of the scissors stick up enough to grab them easily and are perfect for my fingers to fit right through the holes in one motion! How cool is that, I thought!

Now the edge of my tabletop, which is just the right thickness to take these clamps perfectly, has three of them lined up there with 2 pair of little thread trimmer scissors and one larger pair of shears. I'm in heaven; no more lost scissors for me!

Jan in VA

What a clever idea! And Jan, I'm a fan of yours anyway, so this even increases my admiration. :)

Great idea! My sewing machine table is a counter top, I don't know if they would be wide enough, but I am surely going to try!

Very clever idea!!!! That's why I have a basket of scissors next to my sewing machine, on my ironing board, and on my cutting table. When the baskets are empty I start gathering them up again. Same with seam rippers. I don't waste time when sewing looking for scissors, I grab another pair. How they get lost being in one place I will never understand. The dark handle small snip $1.47 cent scissors at Walmart are excellent for thread snipping and if they get lost for good, who cares.

great idea!! I used to use those to hold my quilt on a table for basting. my hands can't open them wide enough these days. I must be getting old!!

this is genius!!!! :-D

So smart!!!!!

another great idea!