I never sit down to sew without the dreaded seam ripper.
My granddaughter was taught by her sewing teacher that the seam ripper would become her best friend and later my grandaughter agreed. We all need a best friend.

I hear ya! I can remember as a girl when I stayed with my darling grandmother up in East Texas, and in the afternoons some of her friends would come over and we'd all sit around the quilt (which was suspended from the ceiling with pulleys, thanks to my gf's ingenuity) and quilt. I would sew a line, and Granny would look over the top of her glasses and say "Ok, the stitches are a little too big (she was being nice - they were WAY too big), so take them out." I'll swear, I took out more stitches than I put in, or so it seemed at the time. But I stuck with it and learned, for better or for worse. <G>

It is too bad our machines can't rip out stitches as fast as they can sew them in!!

sew sew sew, rip rip, sew sew sew...we all do it...learning experience :thumbup:

lol. some of us never learn.

also there is the saying "into every sewer's life a little unsewing will fall"

I feel your pain, i can't sew anything without ripping at least one or two seams out, i tell the ladies in my quilting guild i don't sew i rip and sew

I've ripped so much that I dulled a seam ripper once. Since I 've bought a different kind.

lol i have had several new ones, don't dull them just loose them.......one day i will find them (I hope)

If gone through 3 or 4 seam rippers - I love my Gingher

http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/p...ID=xprd1002384

once you get the hang of it - works great.
LOL