{"id":8141,"date":"2012-11-25T00:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2012-11-25T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T07:00:08","slug":"havels-seam-ripper-and-scissors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8141","title":{"rendered":"Havel’s Seam Ripper and Scissors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhile at Quilt Festival in Houston a few weeks back, I came across my all-time favorite seam ripper<\/strong>!\u00a0 I had no idea it was made by Havel<\/strong>‘s.\u00a0 I was there chatting up with some friends when it suddenly caught my eye!\u00a0 Yipee!!<\/p>\n

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To explain: I bought my original seam ripper many years back but managed to break the plastic case (yes, overuse).\u00a0 Even so, I continued using it.\u00a0 It was an enormous help on my Blushing Triangles 3<\/em> quilt, which is now in the National Quilt Museum in Paducah (the image above is a close-up of Blushing Triangles 4<\/em>, which uses the same type of quilting).\u00a0 After putting in many hours of quilting, I realized I heavily stitched a large section of it going in the wrong direction.\u00a0 However, a larger section was already finished (large than what is shown above).\u00a0 My choices were to the scrap the piece and start again, leave it and hope no one noticed, or take out the area and restitch it.\u00a0 Because that seam ripper works so well, I decided to take out the stitches using the blade itself (since I snapped off the plastic).\u00a0 It was a laborious process that took several weeks.\u00a0 Even so, that blade, or as it’s properly called, “the Ultra-Glide Curved Blade Seam Ripper by Havel’s<\/a>.” helped me to remove those stitches without once cutting into the silk.<\/p>\n

You can see the original blade sitting on the packaging to the right of the new seam ripper in the top photo.\u00a0 I’ve kept it on my magnetic pin cushion for years while I tried to find a replacement.\u00a0 While I bought some others, nothing I’ve tried works as good and I continued to use the blade by itself.\u00a0 I am SO glad that I found my favorite!\u00a0 I also see on the Havel’s website that they have a “heavy duty” model here<\/a>,\u00a0 but, even cooler, little ones, perfect for stocking stuffers, here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you do any kind of stitching and ever need to remove stitching, you will save yourself a lot of aggravation by using this tool!\u00a0 It’s very inexpensive, too.\u00a0 I have no affiliation with Havel’s other than being a VERY happy user!<\/p>\n

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I also got some new scissors.\u00a0 I love the serrated edge (which you can see if you look very closely).\u00a0 Yummy!!\u00a0 You can find out more about their fabric scissors here<\/a> and embroidery scissors here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While at Quilt Festival in Houston a few weeks back, I came across my all-time favorite seam ripper!\u00a0 I had no idea it was made by Havel‘s.\u00a0 I was there chatting up with some friends when it suddenly caught my eye!\u00a0 Yipee!! To explain: I bought my original seam ripper many years back but managed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetsgood-finds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8156,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}