19. How to Rip Out Quilting Mistakes

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

8 Responses

  1. Shar says:

    Thank your incite. I tend to rip to much and it is very frustration.

  2. I also use an old, dull machine needle to help pick out stitches. It is just the right size. Any burrs or scratches on the needle actually help snag the thread and help hold it while you are pulling it out.

  3. Jessim says:

    Lucky you did it in such a small space! I spent a month of evenings ripping out a design I hated on one of my quilts. But it had to be done.

  4. em says:

    This is why I'm so hesitant to start FMQ on the baby quilt I just finished piecing. I'm terrified to have to rip! Thanks for the 'unsewing lesson' – bookmarking this video for reference. 🙂

  5. If rip you must, then you must rip! I pretty much never rip, looking instead for another solution, but I just did a bunch! That's a good tutorial on it.

  6. A Girl says:

    Sometimes a girls gotta do, what a girls gotta do. 🙂

  7. Donna (MumZ) says:

    Last week I learned a new term
    "froging" rip it rip it rip it!

  8. HRH-DMK says:

    Thank you for sharing this very useful technique. Many artists hesitate to share their 'process', but it's very helpful to we amateurs to see that even professionals like Leah C. Day can have an error or two, and here's how she deals with it. Thanks very much Leah, your work is an inspiration, every step of the way!

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