Unquilting
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: kansas
Posts: 6,407
Feeling your pain---literally in my arms and shoulders! Spent about 9 hrs unquilting about a fourth of a quilt last night--had about gotten finished and needing to turn it for borders when I realized I had a pleat that ran almost all the way down the one side. And of course there wasn't any tension problems and part of the borders on this panel had an intricate design---so it was almost picking out each individual stitch! plan to buy a new seam ripper--think I wore that one out!
#12
#13
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: South East Michigan...at the bottom of the thumb!
Posts: 730
Sorry for your plight!!! I guess all of us face these little mishaps now and again. I read your answers and am always so impressed at how much you know...I think of you as one of the experts I read and learn from here on quilt board. So all of us novice to expert suffer the gremlins attacking our machines! At least this is a small mistake! Now when I mess up...wil just think....part of the process.
#16
Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: deep east Texas
Posts: 146
Sorry for your plight!!! I guess all of us face these little mishaps now and again. I read your answers and am always so impressed at how much you know...I think of you as one of the experts I read and learn from here on quilt board. So all of us novice to expert suffer the gremlins attacking our machines! At least this is a small mistake! Now when I mess up...wil just think....part of the process.
#18
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 1,857
Two of the most important pieces of advice I was given when I started quilting were that you have a seam ripper not for if you need it, but for when you need it. Accept that everyone will need to take out stitches. And the other one was to REPLACE that seam ripper, not keep it the 20 years that most of us do! You will be amazed at how nicely a new ripper works!
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