Seam ripper without stabby point of doom?

[sapphire_chan]

I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but dd has started a do-it-herself habit that got me thinking. She could probably use a seam ripper by 2.5 or 3 or so without hurting herself, if it didn't have a stabby point of doom.

So, do they make them?

[sewchris2642]

Not that I know of. That sharp point is to get under the thread. I don't think that a seam ripper would function without it. I usually use my embroidery scissors to rip seams and only result to the seam ripper when the scissors won't do. I've used my rotary cutter as well as a razor blade to remove unwanted stitching. At age 2-3 I started my kids sewing buttons to a piece of felt in an embroidery hoop with a blunt needle or threading buttons into necklaces with a bulnt needle. Sewing with yarn on styrofoam food trays works as homemade sewing cards. Kids that age needs practice in sewing up and down instead of around. It's also a good pre-handwriting skill. I corrected their mistakes. I didn't start teaching sewing with seams that needed to ripped out until age 6.

[leighi123]

Ds is learning to sew on my machine (super slow setting), and he is about to turn 3 (in 2 days!).

If he messes up, I can do the seam ripping for him, there is a lot he can do himself that doesnt involve pointy things.

He has been sewing buttons and sewing cardobard shapes with holes punched in it, strining buttons onto thread w/small needle, cutting fabric with small metal sewing sissors for a year now. When he has anything sharp, he must stay sitting down and not goof around, otherwise its put away until he is in a mood to do it safely

ETA: I teach the kids sewing classes at JoAnn's, and many the 8-14yr olds have a hard time figuring out how to use the seam ripper, and they poke themselves with pins all the time!

[sewchris2642]

I'm 57 and I still stab myself with pins and needles.

[sapphire_chan]

Darn. I was thinking she could rip seams for me before she had the coordination to do her own sewing.