When the thread matches the fabric, I take tiny, tiny stitches at the start of quilting and again when I am ready to end that line of stitching. Then clip the threads. When I tie off and bury the thread ends I use a "easy thread needle", the one with a notch going into the eye from the top of the needle so I just have to pull both thread ends down into the eye at one time without "threading the needle". This is so much faster than "threading the eye" but still takes time to do.