Any suggestions on taking ebroidery OUT?

My Mum used to have a little embroidery unpicker. It was a plastic tube that when you pulled one end out, it housed a piece of metal with a little hook on the end. The hook was sharp on the inside, so that you could push it just under the embroidery stitches, then with an upward stroke, cut the silk. This was an excellent little gadget. I found one on E-Bay... it's obviously in the UK but I'm sure you can get them in America, if that's where you are. Seam Ripper/Stitch Unpicker Buy It Now £0.99 £0.60 I have put a pic underneath so you can see what it's like. They really are a very handy tool to have. My Mum used one all the time. Good luck and Brightest Blessings.

Try buying and using a seam puller. It is a tool and very inexpensive it has a handle and a needle like nose (that is very small) to pull the stitches out from the inside. Ask a sales employee at a craft store and good luck! It's very easy with this tool!

There are some very small sissiors that would work. they are called embrodery sizziors. Small as cutical sissiors then us a pair of twizzeers to pull the threads They have a magnafying glass that hangs from yoou nek. you might want to get thses things befor giving it another go. Also use plenty of light. i find My glasses work better if I have good light.

I do embrodiry now and again and have always found it very tedious to take out any mistake I have made and the only way I know that you can do this is with a needle and slowly try and cut away the threads that you see . If you pull at all you are going to end up with holes . I wish I knew of any easier way of doing this or how to reduce the holes but not sure unless you were to cover it up with a patch of some sort . Best of Luck !!

If it is machine stitch embroidery then you have to cut and pick, very slow work. If you are planning on redoing it with a new name the holes won't matter a lot, just make sure to have the binder cloth on the under side. You can also buy iron name patches that can go right over it.

there is a little tool that my grandmother used to use but i do not know what it is called it had a little wooden handle and a metal tip and at the top it kind of forked out and was really sharp on the ends (i know because i accidentally cut myself with it when i was a little girl) haha you just slide the sharp end under the threads that are embroidered and pull and it would cut the threads it did not take all that long to do you just have to be careful not to pick any of the threads that make up the actual shirt because it would cut those too and your left with a hole in the shirt haha good luck