Burying your threads?
#1
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Burying your threads?
Those of you that bury your thread, do you knot it before you do or no. If you do, do you wait till the quilt is finished or as you go along. Which is easier? Thanks in advance.
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When I hand quilt, I have a knot at the end of all of my thread. I bury my knot, at 3/4" from where I, start to hand quilt. And after, I hands quilt, a area, I have a knot, and bury it, and then, after, I bury that knot, I pull the thread(knot), to me. And make another knot and bury the 2nd knot, and pull/push it away from me. 1 knot will be ok, but I sometimes do a 2nd knot.
#3
I machine quilt and, using a cheater needle, I bury my beginning and ending threads. I always knot the thread first. As to when I bury them, well, that varies, and really it's just based on my mood at the time. Sometimes it's as I go and sometimes I wait until all the quilting is done.
#5
I usually knot and bury some as I go and the rest when I take a break.
I don't like to have a gazillion threads to bury at once. Would be too boring
and hard on my hands. Also, they start getting in the way when there's
too many floating around.
I don't like to have a gazillion threads to bury at once. Would be too boring
and hard on my hands. Also, they start getting in the way when there's
too many floating around.
#7
Yes, I knot before I bury threads. Sometimes as I go, sometimes at the end. It all depends on the quantity and location of the threads. I also pull the bobbin thread up to the top before I cut it so all the ends are on top. I don't do the tiny starting and stopping stitch thing or the backstitch thing, don't like the way they look at all.
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I used to bury all my threads (no knot) and then I took a class with a very accomplished quilter who just does about an inch of teeny tiny stitches to start a thread, and clips them. So now I start and end that way and have gotten rid of one of my least favorite parts of quilting.
#10
I machine quilt and, using a cheater needle, I bury my beginning and ending threads. I always knot the thread first. As to when I bury them, well, that varies, and really it's just based on my mood at the time. Sometimes it's as I go and sometimes I wait until all the quilting is done.
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