I Hate Removing Stitches!

[DuckyBelkins]

I agree with trying to match the pattern to the mistake for sure, sometimes it's too hard though.

I rarely try to save the thread I'm tearing out though, in my experience it's very frustrating to work with and knots up way too easily.

[icedragonj]

I started an epic pokemon pattern recently (gen 2) and I thought to myself, I don't want this happening to me, so I spent an hour or 2 making pink lines to outline each page with groups of 10 so it will be easy to line up my stitches. When I was almost done I realised I had the outline in the complete wrong place! And because I didn't have large boarders to begin with I decided to undo it all and start again. Then when I finally got around to starting the actual stitcheng I made a mistake anyway and had to undo about 20 min of stitches... at least I noticed it pretty quick.
So yeah, I feel your pain.

[toobusytostitch]

Sometimes I don't bother to remove the stitches and start again if I go wrong - it depends on whether it really changes the whole look of the design. A lot of the time I'll just adapt the pattern to make the mistake work and sometimes I think it looks better in the long run. Also I know then that my work will always be an original as nobody else will have made the same mistakes as me!

[Sheetaaa]

I got angry just reading all these stories

[Pyper]

Ive been making tetris christmas decorations, and nearly had all the pieces of one sewn up, until I realised last night I did something completely wrong Now I have to not only undo that seam(s) but enough of the connecting ones to secure them while I fix it.

[rogueprincess20]

Ugh I also hate taking out my work. I have used a seam ripper before but one of the last times I used it I ripped a hole right in the middle of my cloth, so I put the seam ripper away for awhile.

I always think of taking out my work as surgery lol. A surgery with lots of cursing. I am unable to leave in a mistake as it bothers me to no end so I have had lots of undoing, I really need to learn to grid my work, although I imagine I would mess that up too.

[Ally]

The last time I tried to grid my cloth I got it wrong 4 times before I finally got it right

[RMDC]

I tried stitch-gridding twice before I gave up and just bought a blue embroidery marker. For the SUPER-SECRET JOHLOH PROJECT, though, I was using black aida and therefore had to grid with white thread. I somehow managed to keep it from becoming permanently integrated with my stitching, but it was this shy of a nightmare.

[Alondria]

I have just removed about 3 hours worth of work, mostly because I was only one stitch out. Even though I hate removing them, personally, I couldn't fix it as I go along. I have to follow the chart exactly
No matter how frustrating it is to remove stitches, it is completely worth it in the end. Although like most others, I have no motivation at the moment to work on this. Hopefully that motivation will return soon since I am working on Christmas prezzies.

[stitchingmama]

While making my glow-in-the-dark contest entry I had to cut out 35 glow stitches because I bought a new colour of glow floss. I didn't realize it was going to glow a different colour since the four other colours I had glowed the same colour. It wasn't until I went & looked at it in the dark that I realized my mistake. They were worse then regular stitches to take out especially since they were tweeded so they took extra long to stitch in the first place.

I have just removed about 3 hours worth of work, mostly because I was only one stitch out. Even though I hate removing them, personally, I couldn't fix it as I go along. I have to follow the chart exactly
No matter how frustrating it is to remove stitches, it is completely worth it in the end. Although like most others, I have no motivation at the moment to work on this. Hopefully that motivation will return soon since I am working on Christmas prezzies.

I would have rage quit the project if this happened to me.