thursday challenge

Today's challenge is to make a softie with no scissors. That's right, no nicely shaped cutting implements. At your disposal you have a standard rotary cutter, a pinking rotary cutter left over from your papercraft days and the threadcutter on your sewing machine.

Why on earth would you even attempt this? Well hypothetically you made your first sale at your store and you were very very excited. So you set out straight away to make more items. In the process you [hypothetically, of course] managed to use your sewing scissors to try to cut through a glass head pin. Not the glass part, no. The hard metal part that seems to never break and is a champion at ruining sewing needles. The whole time you are attempting this, the pin is hidden in some bias and you think to yourself "wow, I must be trying to cut a lot of layers." So your scissors are ruined, and like any normal family - there are no other scissors in the house. [Well except your husbands that he uses to cut his hair and he'd kill you if you used those, just as you'd chop off his hands for touching your sewing scissors.]


So that's it. No scissors for you. You may be quite proud that you went to Spotlight and only bought what you went for which was 1094m of white cotton thread. You definitely were smart and saved your money until you sold things. Then you ruined your scissors. And now you've got to make softies to sell until you raise enough money for another pair. That's Thursday's challenge.

So can anyone recommend an awesome pair of replacement scissors? I'm thinking bent shears, but I don't know. My last lot were on the low-end side of things. Maybe I should stick with that should any more pins come my way!