Originally Posted by
Ruby the Quilter
Your quilting is beautiful. How do you tie the threads off with all the starts and stops for this beautiful quilting. I have decided I need to move from meandering to a pattern type of quilting. Not sure how to get started.
I'll try to answer this with two different ways of doing it:
1) Don't tie off..... start in the area OFF the border and stitch in toward the inner border (or toward the quilt) then stitch down to the next line (stitching in the ditch to get there) and then stitch back out toward the edge off the quilt. You could actually do this in one motion without tying off. I've never done it on a DSM -- so I don't know how hard that is.
2) Rather than trying to explain how to get the bobbin thread up in the middle of a quilt, I found this tutorial....
http://doodlequilts.blogspot.com/201...rt-2-free.html