These are the containers where I keep my supplies of hooks, eyes and snaps. I like to have an assortment of all the sizes in silver and black on hand. So a couple days ago I places an order to replenish my stock, like I recommended in a previous blog about buying in bulk.
BUT ... when I looked closely at the assorted snaps that arrived I quickly noticed that the snaps on one card were different.
LOOK! ... what's wrong with this picture??
LOOK! ... what's wrong with this picture??
They are missing the hole.
The ones on the left are the new version and the ones on the right have the all important hole in the center to help line up the two sides of the snap. I was taught to put a pin through the center of the snap to make sure the top and bottom line up perfectly.
The ones on the left are the new version and the ones on the right have the all important hole in the center to help line up the two sides of the snap. I was taught to put a pin through the center of the snap to make sure the top and bottom line up perfectly.
This photo from the blog Of Dreams and Seams shows how a pin through the snap will also help hold it in place while sewing.
I started wondering if I was in the minority in learning this way, but found a bunch of tutorials. Here are two samples, a photo tutorial and a video tutorial showing just that. Click on these links below.
Cindy Rice Designs - snap tutorial
MonkeySee - snap video tutorial
I started wondering if I was in the minority in learning this way, but found a bunch of tutorials. Here are two samples, a photo tutorial and a video tutorial showing just that. Click on these links below.
Cindy Rice Designs - snap tutorial
MonkeySee - snap video tutorial
I went to the Dritz site and wrote in to let them know I did not like this new kind of snap. You can too, if you feel the same way. Here is the link ... Dritz contact page.
This does work. Do you remember when the straight eyes from hook and eye packages disappeared for a while?
This does work. Do you remember when the straight eyes from hook and eye packages disappeared for a while?
They only had looped eyes for at least 5 to 10 years, but enough people complained and they brought them back. I LIKE the straight eyes. During this time you could still buy the straight eyes by the gross from professional suppliers, which my sister Theresa did for her custom business I can only imagine a bunch of executives (who don't sew!) sitting around a board table trying to figure out how to reduce costs saying, why are we giving the customer twice as many eyes as hooks? ... grrrr
Now you get 14 hooks in a package with 7 looped eyes and 7 straight eyes. I still wish they came the old way with the hooks and eyes sewn to a card with same number of hooks, straight and looped eyes for you to choose from.
If you notice, the person who owned these hooks used a few straight eyes AND a few looped eyes. You need both depending on the application.
They just don't make sewing notions the way they used to, do they?
They just don't make sewing notions the way they used to, do they?
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