Does anyone else not *get* chainstitch runoff on shirts?

[NickD]

Mrs NickD tucks them back into the seam stitching for me.

I like the idea of setting them in resin though.

[Go For Chill]

It’s just a fun reminder when you’re buying the shirt of how high quality it is; even in the details nobody will ever see. I wouldn’t over think it too much. As some have mentioned, the shirt is stitched so that you can cut them off, which a lot of folks do. You don’t see many used ones for sale with the run off attached.

[ARNC]

@Aetas I can’t help thinking that the plait looks like a giraffe (I think it’s the orientation /continuity with the triple stitching on the seam). I very much doubt chain stitch runoff sculpture will become a thing!

[jordanscollected]

I twirl mine around my fingers (like girls in the 90's twirled their bangs) and make solid eye contact with my wife when I'm trying to get her attention.

[Go For Chill]

@jordanscollected That gives me a great idea. I might start having the wife hold my chainstitch runoff instead of my out-turned pocket while we are walking in public. “Hold my chainstitch!”

[Mizmazzle]

@Go-For-Chill “Bikes!!”

[Aetas]

@Go-For-Chill said in Does anyone else not *get* chainstitch runoff on shirts?:

“Hold my chainstitch!”

Boys oh boys….
But better than „Hold my triple chainstitch giraffe!“ 🫣

[Boit]

@RobeOfTheMagi oh my! How much have you collected? I imagine it to look like dryer lint?

[CosmoSix5]

The professional seamstress that I work with is always telling me she hates the run off. "I want to cut it off every time"!

[Giles]

The professional who designs and makes our clothes likes it......:-)

To me it is such a non-thing. If you like it, keep it. If you don't, get rid. 97 posts

If we did not do it, you could not add it...

[Aetas]

@Seul said in in here:

They mess with people with OCD so I keep 'm on… I'd even attach some if I could...

[mclaincausey]

I think I may have weighed in with these but I’m a couple beers in on a flight:
Love em on shirts but don’t miss em

I’ve been asked if they were Jewish orthodox tassels (I think the term is tzitzit?), so they stay. That kind of confusion just brightens my day

Overlock stitch runoff on cut and sewn is annoying and gets cut

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

[GraemeE]

@mclaincausey said in Does anyone else not *get* chainstitch runoff on shirts?:

tzitzit?

Correct

I have a sort of bris ceremony whenever I receive a shirt with them - its officially part of my routine

[mclaincausey]

See? No harm whatsoever, ya just cut em if ya don’t want em. If only more preferences were this easy to deal with.

[CosmoSix5]

@Giles I like it!

[Boit]

@CosmoSix5 Personally, I’d be bummed if they not included. They make such fun souvenirs. I keep all the shirts in my memory (dish)…even if I sell them.

[CosmoSix5]

Every once in a while I click them into my cars seatbelt clicker lol

[Cymro]

Only got one iron heart shirt (so far!) but one thing I find a bit odd is that the runoff goes down the back seam on the left side but the front one on the right.

[mclaincausey]

@Cymro yep that’s normal—it’s not a mistake on the faux “mistake” of a chain stitch runoff.

[Aetas]

Left and right side chainstitch runoff enigma!
It took me years to find out @mclaincausey, that they end on different sides at the bottom line .
Hard to examine this mystery, if you cut them off.