Originally Posted by
maviskw
If you are familiar with chain stitching, putting on an ender is just like adding another piece. You can keep sewing to the other end of that seam and then add another pair of pieces to make the next seam. No tangling.
I don't usually sew all the way across my ender. I just pull my last-sewn piece away a bit, start in the middle of a folded scrap and make three or four stitches. Then I pull the thread out an inch or so, put in the next pair and keep going.
If you do the L&Es this way you are NOT creating another possible quilt....just using a scrap to control wasted thread...right? But if you do as BH does you are actually piecing something other than the project you r working on at the time.....sort of a prepared bonus...a twofer....
I don't "need" to do it, but I do, just to control scraps as I work on something else...I just have a small basket of precut squares near my SM and use as I need to.