Thank you for your replies. I was thinking this might be the case but was hoping not! I was reading about a "cheater needle" for this.... I just could imagine someone burying thread for four lines on 42 blocks. Yikes. I thought there had to be another way! I don't think I would like the back tacking either so bury I shall!
I will of course post pics when I finish but it will be quite a while before I do any complicated quilting on a large quilt. For now I just put a bunch of pics of my finished projects in my albums.
I think I may wait until I have a set up that will allow me to move a large quilt around a surface (this was only one of my many concerns
) . Right now a quilt on a wooden kitchen table and my machine is not flush to it, so Im going to stick with long straight lines for a bit.