quilt problem - help?
#11
On that video, at the beginning she says take the right thread over the left but she is taking the left over the right. And then the 2nd time she's taking the left over the right again. One youtube commenter said theirs fell apart using this method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaIyAyg_cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaIyAyg_cs
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Originally Posted by gale
On that video, at the beginning she says take the right thread over the left but she is taking the left over the right. And then the 2nd time she's taking the left over the right again. One youtube commenter said theirs fell apart using this method.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaIyAyg_cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeaIyAyg_cs
#15
Actually a square knot is made by putting (for instance) the right thread over the left in the first step and then the left thread over the right for the second step (or vice versa). What makes it a surgeon's knot is the fact that you wrap the thread twice each time rather than the usual once.
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Originally Posted by GemState
What makes it a surgeon's knot is the fact that you wrap the thread twice each time rather than the usual once.
Good to know to use it when tying a quilt. I will use it in the future.
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I am going to tie the quilt I am working on at present, I have a fleece back on it and whatever I try I cannot machine quilt it fed up with unpicking, I have taken advice from the board but nothing has worked, I do not have time to hand quilt, so lets hope this works in the long term, though not really a problem as my daughter could give it back for me to correct.
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