Other sewing tools, like pins and seam rippers can do damage just as a pair of scissors can but no one has ever developed "rules" for those simple sewing notions. Common sense has to come in to play when handling sharp tools.
- Never aim a seam ripper at your body or at someone else. Always work with the point pointing away from your body and keep your hands out of the path of sharp tools.
- Never poke the point of pins into your skin. A pin prick isn't usually an earth shattering event but any cut or puncture can get infected and blood is a nasty stain on fabric.
