10 Reasons To Love Your Seam Ripper

Hullo - we're LiEr's seam rippers aka unpickers.
We're doing tonight's post.

We'd first like to say that we have a very close
relationship with LiEr. Snigger. She makes a lot of
sewing mistakes, and boy are some of them dumb!
Like that time she sewed a sleeve onto the neckline
of some garment. And the other time when she
sewed her own finger. And (Alright, guys,
that's enough. Move along, now.)

Look, everyone. Seam rippers everywhere have a
terrible reputation. And whose fault? You sewing
people, that's whose. You're the ones who sew bad
seams and we're the ones who make them go
away - but then you hush it all up like we're taboo.
So anyway, we went and told LiEr we want credit for
all our other amazing feats.
Credit! Yes!
So LiEr said, "Fine. Alright, go ahead and do
tonight's post. Show off if you must. Just make
sure there are lots of photos.
Sewing people don't read text so well."


Ahem. So here we are- and look what we can do!

1 Turn out tiny corners

2 Turn out skinny tubes

LiEr (the fool) sometimes uses long-nosed pliers or a dowel/chopstick or a needle threaded with thread that has a big knot.
LiEr: Can I explain? I'd like to go on record that I don't let these guys do this to my chiffon or silk or any of my other pretty stuff.


3 Transfer carbon lines onto fabric




4 Cut open buttonholes




5 Poke neat holes in fabric to insert prongs of fasteners




6 Tuck in seam/hem allowances (or anything)



7 Open seams for top-stitching or pressing -


especially wiggly seams:



Before - ugh!



Us at work



After - mmmmmmm...


We'd like to share that LiEr uses us a lot for this because
she'd rather eat nutella than get the ironing board out sometimes.


8 Make pleats





9 Ease a stretched edge into a seam or match uneven seam allowances.
Did you know you can sew over us? Whoo!

Before - check out that extra bulgy bit that's destined to end up a gather! Ick!


Watch us make it go away


After - no ugly gathers!




10 Ease in a set-in sleeve

That sleeve is about 1/4" bigger than the armscye - that's a good difference for easing in. Check out that wavy seam allowance after basting!

We're doing the same stuff as in Amazing Feat #9, but along a curve. Dang, we're versatile.




11 And (yawn - boring) ripping seams.
BTDT*.

See? Told you we were amazing. Now, we're planning to petition to have our name changed to Miracle Sewing Tool That Has Multiple Functions And Is Cheap To Buy And Sometimes Even Comes Free With Your New Sewing Machine But Is Invaluable To Own. Catchy, isn't it? So much more accurate than Seam Ripper, which we think is degrading, narrow, and very discriminatorily task-ist. You can help us by spreading the word and linking and telling everyone our new name.

*Been There, Done That

LiEr: Phew. Rude bunch, aren't they? And they can't even count. I insisted they let everyone also know the other tools that can do what they do, just so they don't get too full of themselves. I'm all for workers' rights and all that, but can you believe their petition?! Get outta here!