Originally Posted by
barri1
I tied my first quilt using the machine, and buttons.. I love the way it came out.. It was so easy. I wasted a lot of thread, as the squares were 3", and there are buttons in each corner. I didn't cut the thread between the buttons until after, so used a lot of thread in the bobbin, and upper thread.
In this case your time and effort was worth more than the cost of the bits of thread that you had to snip and discard. When I bar tack little quilts or quillows, I do the same thing.