Originally Posted by
Doggramma
On the AQPS forum the LA'ers use razor blade cutters for ripping out the quilting stitches. What they've demonstrated (called frogging) is folding back the top from the batting/backing and carefully slice through all the stitches. It's just another ripping out technique that must go faster.
LOL, all unsewing is called frogging, as in "rip it, rip it" (think frog going ribbit, ribbit) so if you are ripping a seam or a bunch of quilting it is frogging.
The technique of using a razor blade cutter and peeling backing from quilt and cutting the exposed stitches is often referred to as "skinning" a quilt and often when doing this technique you sacrifice the backing because you inevitably nick the backing while doing it and usually in more than one place. Skinning does go quickly so losing the backing is often a fair price to pay for the time and effort saved.