Alternative Seam Rippers and Methods

Today, we are going to be looking at the seam ripper. Do you have that seam ripper that we all got in our high school economics class? Do you know how to sharpen one of these? You don't, you throw them away when they get dull. It's always important to move on and to buy a seam ripper that works a little bit better because you can actually ruin your product.

If the seam ripper isn't strong enough, you'll end up going through a lot of the threads on your fabric. Now this seam ripper happens to be very sharp yet but I wanted to show you a couple different seam rippers and ways to use them. This is a seam ripper, this isn't actually a seam ripper, this is an eyebrow razor. It's a great tool for just working along and cutting those stitches that you need cut. It doesn't rip your fabric and you can go quite quickly actually because it cuts away at those threads really rapidly.

Now this is another type of a seam ripper and it's kind of in a scalpel form. I tend to have a little bit of a problem with that. I tend to have to replace this blade quite often and it's a little bit more dangerous I feel, because you do have a little bit of a risk. One of the things that I would do if I was using this seam ripper is I would probably decide to use it in a different way than I would use other seam rippers. And the way that I would use it is I would probably go in and hook it under a stitch for every three stitches and make a break in that thread.

Because if you do that what you'll find is that it's much easier for you to be able to just rip it away because it all just comes apart so nicely. Now, a lot of people, they don't understand what that little red ball is for in our seam rippers. They usually they use it, they think it's a visual thing where they want to use it up above and they want their seam ripper to be down below like this. Now, if you do this, chances are you're going to end up cutting through your fabric as so. We don't want to do this.

What we want to do is we want to take that ball and we want to put the ball down below and we use it as a guide and see how nice and nifty that works. And we're not going to be ripping away at fabrics because we've got that. It's up here at the edge, we're able to watch the point and it just cuts away very nicely. I'm going to move this to the side. It's also a nice product to use when you're using Minky.

Minky is a fabric that's very easily ripped or torn because you can't really decipher when you're going to get down to that bottom part of where it's held together, there's so much plushness in it. So all you do is you open up that seem like such, you might want to release a couple of the first stitches because like most of us, we always have that sew off where we've tried to lock our stitch in place and you might want to start from the side of the fabric and not the side of the Minky because the threads just kind of fall right in and melt into the Minky. So now we just opened that up and we've got our seam here. We put that ball down and we just let it guide along and you'll see how quickly we can rip away. We get a good grasp on it.

See, so it's a much easier way to use your seam ripper, it's much more efficient. And the key is always have a sharp seam ripper on hand. So that's our little bit of a demo today for seam ripping. This is a nice brass seam ripper. I would suggest in purchasing, it's got a lifetime warranty and it's made by Pam Demore.

And so here is the site where you can purchase it at but it's a very nice seam ripper and my favorite. I hope you enjoyed the segment.