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Old 11-10-2014, 06:54 PM
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DogHouseMom
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I just went through that process with a King size scrappy quilt. Despite having trimmed the blocks before adding them to the quilt, by the time I was done with it and the borders there were lots and lots of loose threads.

I laid the quilt out on the dining table where I could do 1/2 the width at a time (and perhaps 1/5 the length). With a small thread snip in my right hand, and tape wrapped around my left fingers, I would snip then stick them to the tape.

A long tedious process, but I was sending the top to an LA. If I was quilting it myself on my longarm I wouldnt have bothered because I float my tops and I could have flipped it to remove any offending theads when quilting.

For me, it was worth it. I know how discusted I would have been if I saw threads showing through after spening so much time on the quilt. Better safe than sorry.
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