ripping out stitches!!!!! :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :evil: :x :x

Ahhhh, the dreaded "learning curve". Just keep Jack handy and you'll be fine. I have my Masters and I'm working on my PHD.

Hang on in there, it's all good. I know sometimes it realy can be frustrating.

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LOL< me too!

i can do it behind my back with my eyes closed :shock:
now THAT takes practice! LOL

Go, David, go. We all like to be great at something so you can, currently, be the greatest seam ripper (smile). Just remember, this too shall pass and soon it will become less needed. Looking forward to seeing your new projects.

Happens to everyone. Been quilting for years and last week had to rip off almost every setting triangle in on point quilt because I kept putting them on wrong. Some days we just can't win. LOL

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen:

That is exactly why I have a ripper by each machine on every table and a small one in my purse... Does this tell you anything. I do like using a small battery operated mustache trimmer to unsew a seam with...

David, I think she is lying to you LOLOLOLOLOLOL :D:D:D:D:D

I think that many of us arevery good at the frog stitch.....rip it...rip it...rip it....

My seam ripper is my best friend!!

OMG,, LMAO. I call my DH and his good buddies FROG's.
F*****G Really Old Guys!!!

I attended a class with Carol Doak once; she uses & sells a tool that's a lot like a utility knife for ripping out stitches. After some practice, it works well and I don't use a seam ripper anymore. Probelm is, there are frustrating times when having sharp objects handy is not a good idea, know what I mean?!!! Arrrggghhhh!! :hunf: :evil: :shock:

(just joking)

When I started welding the grinder was my best friend. The better I got at welding the less I used the grinder. When I started quilting the same goes for the seem ripper.

:D :D :D :D :D

LOL I am with you, I did as much unsewing as sewing on my latest project :D:D:D

must be something in the air...i've about worn out my seam ripper in the past couple days :roll:

I prefer the more PC term of "reverse sewing" LOL

i am an expert ripper i used to do alterations for a living for about 8 yrs rip rip rip

I like to refer to it as "reverse stitching"!

I think we are all masters at being ripped.

The point of my seam ripper broke I used it so much. Now I use a rotary cutter. After a little practice it becomes fast and easy to take seams out.

They are marvelous little tools aren't they. I can remember when I was a child and we had to use a flat razor blade to rip out our mistakes. I cut a lot of fabric trying to "fix" stuff, I can tell you. Keep going though. You'll get better.

Me too. I love my surgical ripper. Good friend.

Agh, I hear you. Used to hate ripping out stitches, until I learned a little hint. From the top, you only need to rip out about every 3rd or 4th stitch, then when you have done about 4 to 5 inches, pull from underside the thread. It does speed up the process.

My daughter, age 7, just started sewing and LOVES to use her seam ripper. I know that most people hate to do it, but I haven't said anything to her so maybe she won't hate it.

My old screename used to be StitchRipper, so i know where you are coming from. Just keep hanging in there, and maybe slow down a little on your stitiching.

You'll know you're getting the hang of things when you've named all the different kinds of seam rippers you own. My favorite is Jack. But then there's Mack, JJ (Jack Junior), etc. I swear I spent more time reverse engineering than anyone in my Intro to Quilting class and then I found out it wasn't their first quilting class. Go figure.

I just wrote a note on ripping stitches in the earlier topic today on paper piecing -- I think it's on page 4 -- check it out!

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