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popsgal1 popsgal1 |
quilting/burying your thread
May 2 2007, 10:28 AM EDT I have not hand quilted in a while and I am at the end of a thread and can't bury the thread. I think it needs a knot of some sort but i am stuck and can't remember how to do it. Thanks 3 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you? |
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cpup40 cpup40 |
RE: quilting/burying your thread
Jun 30 2007, 1:18 AM EDT Make a circle and then put your needle through it two to three times and then tighten it making sure that it is touching the fabric so it will not come loose. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Malarky Malarky |
RE: quilting/burying your thread
Jul 5 2007, 9:15 PM EDT You might try a "lingerie knot." Begin a stitch with the needle stuck through the fabric. Place the loose tail end to the left. Wrap the looped side over the needle tip to the right. Pull needle through the fabric. Tug lightly to tighten the knot. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 KarenQuiltsTexas |
RE: quilting/burying your thread
Nov 23 2007, 2:12 PM EST I don't bury knotted threads... (Gasp! I know... sounds heretical doesn't it!). Although, it's the traditional, time honored method of beginning and ending a line of quilting. It's not the only way. I've taken a number of great classes from well known quiltmakers - each had their own style of quilting, and I learned an alternate way to start and stop your quilting: Start your quilting with your needle (no knot on the thread end) by entering the top ahead of your line of stitching, bringing your needle and thread up at your starting point, leave about an inch or so of thread in the quilt. Take a very tiny back stitch (only a couple of threads of your top taken in this tiny stitch). Then start your quilting, quilting over your stitching line - you'll take in a stich or two over the end of the thread, anchoring it sufficiently. When you get to the end of your stitching line - make a tiny back stitch, coming out at the end of a stitch two or three stitches back from the end of the stitching line. Make another tiny backstitch, coming up again two or three more stitches back... then make one more tiny back stitches... but this time come back out the top as far away down the line as you can... cutting close to the top. No knots, no tiny holes made by the knots pulled through (these can wear to bigger holes with time - if threads are torn burying in the traditional way... Good luck! 5 out of 5 found this valuable. Do you? |
 doublefluffs |
RE: quilting/burying your thread
Jan 23 2008, 8:11 PM EST I have printed this section out.. and I am going to try it. My knots have become sloppy and I totally agree with you on tiny knots making tiny holes if pulled through. And once you have even a small nip in your fabric, over time and washing and drying... you can end up with a very unsightly snag then more wear. It's especially awkward if this was a gift to someone who then when noticing it, attempts to fix with a needle and thread and ends up with one unsightly mended patch on the quilt. Thank you, this was a very interesting contribution. Do you find this valuable? |
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odessa_cat odessa_cat |
RE: quilting/burying your thread
Jan 24 2008, 9:26 AM EST Interest, I used to begin and end threads that way, back in my days of predominately ,in the ditch quilting, crosshatching, straight line stuff. Now I do so many designs that swirl and curve and getting that tail under the line of stitching wasn't always feasable. Now I use a one wrap quilters knot, well buried in the batting to start the thread, and a colonial knot ( the knot you use in candlewicking) to end the thread, weaving that tail into the batting where I might catch it with the next thread a time or two. 2 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you? |
