I should have known better than to rush loading an 80,000 stitches jacket-back design! I left the machine alone while embroidering and later found out when the design was done that a section of the design was the wrong color. Luckily, the piece I’m working on is not for a customer. It’s denim jacket for my father-in-law who’s coming to visit in a day. This is one of the many times Peggy’s Stitch Eraser has come to the rescue for me so if you’re new to embroidery you might want to get yourself one. It will save you hours and neck pain when trying to remove stitches from large tatami areas. It’s a shaver similar to those at barber shops for trimming beards, but its blade is perfect for removing embroidery threads. You use it along with other tools to remove stitches like a tweezers, seam ripper, and of course those precious small curved scissors.
If you’re new to embroidery and thinking that you won’t make a thread color mistake, well, it’s not only for color mistakes. Sometimes stitches turn out poorly because of thread tension problems. It usually happens when you step away from the machine for a minute to do something and when come back find looped or loose stitches. Embroidery machines don’t detect poor quality issues and stop (they do stop on threads though).
Yeah they are very nice to have around in days where the machine doesn’t want to cooperate with you. Like last month when stitches kept looping for center chest design on sweatshirt. I was so close to calling in a tech, but finally the problem sorted itself.
I got the stitch eraser for free when I purchased my machine. It’s very handy.