When Your Life Needs A Stitch Ripper
Posted on October 16, 2012 by Quinn McDonald, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Stitch rippers help take out unwanted seams in fabric. Wouldn't it be great to have one for your relationships and mistakes?
A stitch ripper is a hand device that people who sew use. People who are learning to sew use it a lot. There are several different styles, but the idea is the same—you use it to cut the threads in a line of sewing that need to be taken out. They are also called seam rippers.
After ripping out the stitches from the front, I learned that if you flip the project over and pull out the bobbin stitching, you do a lot less damage to the fabric and make the sewing thread come out in longer pieces, making opening a mistake faster.
And then, because I wonder about odd things, I wondered if it wouldn’t be a great idea to have a stitch-ripper for your life. Don’t like the way a project at work is turning out? Flip over your whole team and pull the thread that holds together poor thinking and wrong conclusions.
Don’t like the plot line in your story? Flip it over and find out what emotional stitching got tangled up in the logic thread and pull it out.
Unhappy with the direction your relationship is heading? Look at the other side carefully and see if the ideas, goals, dreams you both share are lined up right, There might be a wrinkle in the relationship that sounds similar to, “I’d really love that person if only s/he would change for me.” Time for the seam ripper.
I hate making mistakes, and I hate using the seam ripper, because undoing work isn’t fun and the stitch ripper requires some skill in itself—you can’t be too fast or vicious with it. But knowing that no emotion is final helps me open the old to make room for something fresh and different.
Quinn McDonald doesn’t sew, so she has to know how to use a stitch ripper.
