Actually I tried to get my wife to do it, but seeing as she's pregnant, and any little things, makes her want to hurl she refused to do it. So I was like, "hey, if an 18D can do it, it can't be that hard" and proceeded to use my gerber tool, scissors to cut it, and some tweezers from the medicine cabinet, to pull. Got 3 of them out alright.
Oh and the stitches were black in color.