Me too. Years ago I belonged to EGA when life was simpler and they taught us how to embroidery without knots or traveling. Once you learn it is really nice. You put a knot on your thread and enter from the front , and put this knot several inches away from where you plan to embroidery. You now have a knot on the top and the thread is on the bottom. You do your embroidery and then go back and clip your knot that is several inches away on the frontside pull the thread through to the backside and weave in.