There is a little device that looks like an electric razor. It shaves off the stitches. I haven't been able to find the name of it, but I have seen it in sewing catalogs.

peggy's stitch eraser is a highly price beard trimmer. buy an ordinary beard trimmer at walmart and trim the wrong side. eventually all the stitching will come off.

if the jacket was embroidered a while back the cloth underneath might be a brighter color.

I have not yet tried it but Wahl's Peanut was the clipper/trimmer that was recommended to me by embroidery people.
Good Luck,
Stasia

there's probably a fabric (stabilizer) on the back of the embroidery portion. cut the stitches from the backside with sharp exacto and use tweezers. yeh, time consuming but works. usually if you can grab the bobbin thread part it comes undone quickly. then using a damp press cloth, iron over the place where you need to re-embroider, pulling gently to realign the threads of the fabric.

print what you want to embroider on a piece of paper, computer fonts!!! using temp bonding to hold in place, put on jacket and satin stitch slowly. I do a straight stitch to stabilize and then satin over it. you will also probably need the stabilizer fabric on the back. then trim the paper away, wash and there it is.
If you go with the patch, you can use the font printing/paper thing to design your new embroidery too.And I wouldn't think a patch would have to be nylon. A lot of nylon jackets have patches made of other fabrics.

And don't forget you will need a fine needle for working on nylon.

How would you remove embroidered monograms from parson chairs. The fabric is not remivable.

You might make an appliqué patch (your own mono or design,) and if you can't stitch it on by hand, there is permanent fabric glue.

A seam ripper and a lot of care and patience. But you will probably still have holes or an impression left from the embroidery.

Donna

Or you could do like I did and do a border around what you're wanting to put inside and do your lettering on the inside of it and then just hand whip stitch the patch per say over the emb. on the jacket. I bought a very nice old navy jacket at the thrift store for my hubby with someones name on it. I worked for awhile trying to get that out and finally decided WHAT am I doing? Just make a patch with his name on it with the border out of the same color the name is and then just use the same thread the border is to hand whip stitch it on with. Worked like a charm. Although I did do a test run to see how large I needed my name to be to cover the other up. Maybe you have a friend with a emb. machine that can do you something like this. ????

It is best to remove.

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