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Question: Opening a Bag Sewn Shut With String?

littergitterSilver Post Medal for All Time! 418 PostsJuly 25, 2014

Can anyone tell me how to open a bag by pulling the two strings so they unravel? This bag had two sections and I did one, after fiddling with it for several minutes, and I don't know how I did it. Usually I give up and have to cut each stitch to get the bag open and it is a big mess. Advertisement

By littergitter from NC

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littergitterSilver Post Medal for All Time! 418 PostsJuly 25, 20140 found this helpful

My picture did not go through the first time. Trying again.

Pixiedust7Gold Feedback Medal for All Time! 679 FeedbacksJuly 26, 20140 found this helpful

It's been hit or miss, for me. Sometimes I get the string to pull all the way off with the first try, and sometimes it takes some fiddling around. When the end has a series of knots in it, like the one in your photo, I think you might have to cut the knot off first, then try pulling one string or the other. Advertisement

It's great when it works, and a pain in the butt when it doesn't. I've ended up just cutting the bag open with scissors, on occasion. The bag is actually sewn shut just like a line of regular sewing machine sewing, with a top thread and a bobbin thread, so it should pull apart the same way you would rip open some machine sewing. Usually, I think it's the bobbin thread that releases more easily, but I don't know which is which on the bag.

I don't see those bags too often any more. My cat food bags are rolled down and glued shut, which are easy enough to unroll and open (sometimes I get a bent fingernail, that's all). The cat litter I buy either has to be cut open (national brand), or it has a strip that rips off, leaving a plastic zip closer below to close it with (store brand). I like these kinds of bags much better.

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