BellaBoo

I use it like a zipper. I start at the end and just zip the seam open. I use a rotary cutter as a seam ripper just as much as using a regular seam ripper. I don't think there is any proper way to use one, just how you like to use it. Quilt police has brain washed too many people.

mimee4

On big jobs I use the rotary cutter held like a pencil. I still smile as I remember when I visited someone who was using a steak knife to take out the stitches in the hem of her husband's pants.

susie-susie-susie

The video way is how I do it too. I tend to use smaller stitches when putting blocks together (seams stay together better). Then I use a lint roller to remove the tiny threads. Works like a charm.
Sue

barb55

That is the way I do it. It is so much faster.

june6995

Oh my, long before some of you were born, I took Home Ec in 9th grade and I don't remember there being seam rippers at that time. If there were, Miss Fuss (yes, that was her name) had us bring to class a safety razor blade. And we used it for any stitches we had to remove.
We had not yet learned to sew zippers so the skirt I was making had a placket with snaps, where a zipper would ordinarily go! I had one sewn incorrectly and was told to remove it. Ok, here comes the razor blade. I cut the fabric where it would show and did not get an "A" as I had hoped for, and naturally, I NEVER wore the skirt.

Where were the seam rippers that day? I sure could have used one. Since then, I have seam rippers in about every room of my house. When I need to rip, I can "reach out and grab one!" Nothing like having things handy!

June in Cincinnati

Ann912

Thanks for the link.

Iamquilter

Thats how I do mine.

quiltmom04

I use the tip of the ripper on the top (or bottom) of the seam and rip every three stitches or so. The the other side (that wasn't actually ripped) will pull right out and you won't have tugged on the fabric like when you pull the seam open to rip the stitches.

TheSevenYearStitch

Definitely a message brought to you by the Quilting Police. If you get the thread out, you did it the right way!

FroggyinTexas

I've got a bunch of seam rippers, all well used but my favorite is a single edge razor blade and any way is the right way as long as (1) it works for you (2) it doesn't reip the fabric and (3) you don't hurt yourself. froggyintexas