Originally Posted by scrapngmom

Many, many years ago I worked for someone who made mass quilts and sold them. When we tied the quilts we took a needle up through the layers, moved a little over and down through the layers and then up again through the first hole. Then we moved over to where the next point of the tieing would be. After it was all done, we would go back and cut the floss/yarn half way between everything. There was no "tieing" involved.