I always tie a scrap of fabric to my cutting tools. Not only does it identify my items at a class (and help students keep their things separate) but around the house it ensures that the children & the hubbs know fabric scissors will have fabric on them.
Thank you to this week’s ChalkTalk tip contributor: Jenn Eskridge of Reanna Lily Designs
Love this tip! Great idea for taking your treasured scissors to a sewing class or retreat, but also a great way to protect them at home!
Great tip!
I also think this is a great tip. So simple and smart.
I received the tip in the newsletter and I immediately attached some selvedge scraps to my scissors! It’s a real great tip!
Such a simple tip and so clever!
Ahh…yes…”Who took my sewing scissors?” Cry. This is a wonderful tip and yet so simple, I like the idea of this when I go to a class, very often the person sitting next to you has the same scissors or tools you do.
This is a great idea! Not only does it help keep you organised, it’s a great way of using up those spare little scraps of lovely fabric and keeping them on show!
Sarah
Great idea! I need to do this to my rotary cutters, too, so that they end up going home with me after sewing get-togethers!
That is a good idea!
great idea! I’ll have to do this with yarn
Starting off with a bang, huh? Great tip and I LoVe the graphic!!
Great idea for sewing classes. I will still stick to my tried and true method at home though – HIDING the good scissors!
The other great way to use fabric scraps as an identifier…..is on wine glasses
Instead of getting fancy charms for my wine glasses, I tie different colors of fabric around them and they can be done to themes….red, white and blue scraps of varying shades for July 4th…green, orange, purple, black for Halloween…you get the idea 
Now go open a bottle and enjoy!
I mark fabric scissors with fabric too. Specialty scissors have those cute little scissor fobs – just adore them. Utility scissors are marked with those plastic electrical zip pulls – not hard to destinquish those.
Great idea – I like everyone to know which scissors are MINE!!
That’s funny, I tie strips of fabric around my particular things in the fridge that I don’t want Hubs & Son to take. It’s a great idea for class, and a fun thought on how to put your name on it creatively.
What a good idea. When we were kids, my mom was always making what I thought of as a “big deal” about the difference between ‘fabric scissors’ and ‘regular scissors’. Now I do the same thing–and the scissors I am diligent in protecting are the ones I inherited from her.
Great idea, thanks. It looks like Chalk Talk is going to be a really fab feature
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I buy tassels when they are on sale and put those on my scissors. For everything that can’t wear a pretty tassel, they get a pretty little dot of nail polish.
I love this idea. I have scissors that (to the untrained eye) look the same and I am always being asked “These ones ok?”, with this tip they will know straight away and that way when I am not around they will know as well. Yay!
Super idea and much more kind than the tags reading “Touch these and you die” when my now grown children were in middle and high school!
That’s a great idea. I’ve tried the beaded fobs but they seem to get in the way.
Love ‘It’s a Hoot’ fabric. Great vibrant colors to work with.
This is the reason we need blogs… to remind us that the simple things are sometimes the best ideas!
I learned this trick from my mom about 40-something years ago….she had to do this to try to keep my dad [an artist] from using ,her scissors on his paper…didn’t help much, but she tried.
I’m late to the party, but just want to add that I love the tips.
I have been using selvedge remnants to tag my luggage and now will use them on my scissors, too.
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