| How to remove embroidery stitches | | | | the design. This will remove the bobbin thread. Turn the |
| The first thing I have to say is that patience is the | | | | design over and using your tweezers pull out the |
| embroiderer's best friend. Things will go wrong. That is | | | | embroidery thread. Repeat this process until you have |
| fine then you will learn how to fix them. | | | | at least most of the design removed. For smaller more |
| A friend of my recently said, you are not an | | | | stubborn areas I use a combination of the scalpel and |
| embroiderer until you stitch something into the hoop. | | | | the quick unpick. This process requires a lot of |
| Well I definitely qualify; my best effort at this was to | | | | patience so that you don't put holes in your fabric. |
| stitch the front of my jeans leg to the back of them | | | | If you do have a small hole a reasonable solution is to |
| with a 10,000 stitch design. I now see that as a very | | | | use an iron on repair product. Often as you will be |
| positive experience. The jeans were not expensive I | | | | re-embroidering the area this will be quite discreet. |
| could have thrown them away and bought a new pair. | | | | If you only wish to remove a small part of the design |
| I chose to remove the stitching very carefully and redo | | | | leave the item in the hoop and chock up the part you |
| my work. | | | | want to remove. You will find you have removed the |
| I am going to share some ideas on how you can | | | | stabilizer from that part, simply float a piece of |
| remove machine embroidery stitching without | | | | stabilizer under that section, this will save you |
| damaging your garment. | | | | re-hooping. |
| The first thing you should do is take care not to mess | | | | Now, why was my disaster with my jeans a positive |
| it up in the first place this will save you lots of time, but | | | | experience? I have since had a couple of orders that I |
| things will go wrong. | | | | just wasn't happy with the results. My time spent |
| You can buy a tool for this purpose, there are two | | | | unpicking my cheap jeans meant that I knew exactly |
| that I know of, one is called a peanut and the other is | | | | how to fix the problem quickly and neatly. Practice |
| Peggy's stitch remover. I don't have either of these. I | | | | makes perfect, so if you mess something up that |
| live in Australia and shipping power supplies etc... have | | | | doesn't really matter, if you have time unpick it |
| made it a little arduous for me to bother. | | | | anyway. |
| Here is how I do it; in my disaster kit I have a quick | | | | This technique may not work well on very light fabric. |
| unpick, a surgical scalpel, a pair of eyebrow tweezers | | | | So again be careful not to mess up in the first place, |
| and my good quality razor. | | | | especially if you are working on a very delicate one of |
| Place the Item face down on a flat hard surface. Very | | | | a kind piece. |
| carefully using a good quality razor, shave the back of | | | | |