I am late to this party but:
FABRIC SCISSORS ARE ONLY! ONLY! ONLY! FOR FABRIC.
do not ever use them to cut something that isn't fabric or string.
(rope, even cotton rope, or rope trim or whatever, does not count as string. I'd avoid using main fabric scissors for heavy upholstery fabric, that needs its own stronger pair of fabric scissors.)
if my mother caught me using the ginghers for anything other than fabric I think I would still—at 34 years old and bigger and stronger than my aging mother—get a thrashing, or at least the verbal beat-down that would make me wish it was just a thrashing.