 Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. So it is an inevitable part of sewing. Every once in a while you have to rip out the stitches that you put in, whether it's on a sewing machine or even on a serger. Sometimes you just make a mistake and you need to undo what you did. So today I'm going to be showing you three different ways to un-stitch your sewing machine stitches and your serger stitches. And as we all know, the serger stitches can be real annoying to pull out. So let's get over to the cutting table and I'll show you three different ways to remove both of those seams. Okay, so I made up some samples. Just pretend these are side seams or some kind of bodice, shoulder seam, something or another. All right, we have a couple of ways to un-sew a sewing machine stitch. One is to take your seam ripper and to place it underneath the threads. I go, I don't know, every inch or so skipping along until I'm able to pull some of them apart like so and then kind of keep that going and carefully ripping them out. The back stitches are the hardest obviously because there's like more stitching there and you go like that until you're able to get some more going. The other way is to take a fairly long tail of the threads like so and this works really well on basting stitches that are a little bit longer but you get yourself a little tail going and then you pull, you might need to break it up into smaller sections depending on how tight the stitch is but you can pull it out like that and now all of this is undone. I do that too especially if it's a sturdy fabric. Your lighter weight fabrics never going to work. They're just too delicate and also if you're pulling on anything that is like on the bias or I don't know, it can get really dicey doing it that way. Another option is to utilize this little red ball that's on the end of your seam ripper. You might have noticed it there and never really knew what it was for and its intention is to be kind of a guide for the seam ripper to be able to slice through all of this entire seam. So you have to get it going a little bit so just come in here toward the end pick out a couple of these stitches especially the back stitching stitches like so. You should be able to lay your fabric down, place the ball on the table and the like pointy part face up and then you can rip right through like this. So this works well again on sturdy stable fabrics but on lighter weight fabrics and even sometimes more sturdy fabrics this can go a little haywire and it can cut into your fabric and when you're cutting with the seam ripper it's cutting along the seam line so it's a little bit unforgivable. The option that I have found that works really great on fabrics of all kinds including knit fabrics is something called a seam remover. This comes from the people at Kai scissors so you know the blade is going to be extraordinary and the product is going to be very well made and the way that this works it's really simple you sort of the blades are encased in like this little plastic casing so if you have seen something similar that you bought in the beauty aisle of your convenience store or your pharmacy it does not have these little plastic protectors around each blade so those similar to how the seam ripper did with the red ball can kind of go haywire and just cut into your fabric but the seam ripper is designed to cut the threads but not the fabric because of the little plastic guard that is in place and you can see I'm barely touching the threads and I'm not touching the fabric at all as the thread that's the fabric separates and the threads are exposed that's when the seam remover comes into place and you can easily remove this cool right I love love love the seam remover so I thought while I was here discussing seam ripping from your sewing machine stitches we could also talk about serger stitches so it's annoying I know but every once in a while you'll serge something and you need to take it out for one reason or another I think the more traditional method is to come in and just start you know seam ripping cutting all these threads you have a million little threads everywhere using your seam ripper and certainly that is still an option you can also take some like embroidery scissors I like these with the little curved uh scissor I don't know what's that part called because you can get in under these threads and you know there is a right side and a wrong side to your serger threads the right side is the one that has the stitch going on the middle and the wrong side does not so find the right side slip the embroidery scissor underneath and cut slip the blade under and cut all the way down and then take your seam ripper to the wrong side of the serger stitches pull up one of those and then you'll be able to easily pull away your serger stitches that way so then I thought why not try the seam remover on serger stitches as well I love it so much for the sewing machine stitches so why not try it here as well and lo and behold I came up here right side up and you can see all those threads are exposed and I just started sewing gently barely putting any pressure on and eventually it gets going and you're able to quickly and easily cut through all of those layers off threads all at once so this little guy is like six dollars on Kai's website it comes in three different colors I don't think you get to pick your color I think it's just randomly chosen but just so you know there's all the colors they're all beautiful um and you can really it's a powerhouse I mean you can really use this on any stitch that you've got whether it be the sewing machine stitch or your serger stitch you can use the seam remover to quickly and easily remove seams of any kind and I am always here for bang for the buck and for six bucks I mean how much do these cost these can cost as much as twenty dollars so you'll get you'll use a lot less of this and be able to preserve this for things that you really need it for and be able to kind of go through this these more quickly which are they're cheaper so why not so there you have it hopefully I showed you today at least one or two different options that you had never considered before to get those seams removed if you would like to get a Kai seam remover check the description box I have got a direct link to where you can find that on their website as well as a coupon code that you guys can use over at kicesers.com thank you all so much for watching I will see you all next time bye