Help! Trying to remove tiny stitches
04-12-2016, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by KLO
I use the tiny rotary cutter to take out tiny stitches and big ones too. Once I can get to where the layers can be separated a bit and I can see the stitches holding the layers together, I pull up the top layer and start cutting with the rotary cutter little by little while continuing to pull up on the top layer and holding down the bottom one. Does that make any sense whatsoever? I have become a master at this technique .... which is a sad statement about my sewing/quilting. Good luck and take your time.
04-12-2016, 04:45 PM
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I just had to do this myself - ugh! I had a little seam ripper and one of those seam rippers that are a blade tip (which scared me).. what worked the best for me was the tweezers. I never would have been able to finish without using the tweezers. They could grab a teeny piece of thread and hold on to it when I pulled threat out.
04-12-2016, 05:39 PM
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I had assumed it couldn't be separated, if it can, I found using my pointy embroidery scissors helps me get the threads clipped easier than a seam ripper. When I'm brave, I sometimes even just clip the threads on top. That way I don't have to try to get anything between the thread & top. I just put scissors straight upright (perpendicular to top) and clip carefully until I'm through both plies of the thread.
04-12-2016, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Tartan
Is there any way you could start at the edge and separate the 3 layers? I would lift my top and clip the tiny stitch in the batting. It will take a while and you might have to work in a tunnel as you go along but you would have to worry about damaging the top.
This would be my suggestion as well. Painful but sometimes very necessary with those itty bitty stitches.
04-12-2016, 06:21 PM
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When I have to rip something like that, I add some magnifying glasses and get the best light I can on the subject. Also, Hobby Lobby has a seam ripper that has one of the smallest points and that makes ripping somewhat easier. In the end, nothing is going to make ripping black on black a pleasure. It is just tough. Been there, done that!
04-13-2016, 04:11 AM
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Using the blade of the rotary cutter --- spreading the seam open -- isn't that scary...EB does it that way.
after you remove all those stitches...make a small scrap sandwich and check your machine stitching before starting again.....
after you remove all those stitches...make a small scrap sandwich and check your machine stitching before starting again.....
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