Originally Posted by
dunster
I watched a video with Karen McTavish and another well known longarm quilter - can't remember who - and Karen claimed that she doesn't bury her threads. I find that hard to believe, at least for her show quilts.
It is true. I took a class with Karen several years ago and she does not bury threads, not even on her show quilts. She usually tries to end in the ditch or in some dense Mctavishing fill. No judge has ever called her out on it, at least not as of 2011. I don't believe Green Fairy does either and a quilt she did won a first in its category at Paducah. So I feel if you can effectively hide your starts and stops it isn't necessary, not even on a show quilt. I rarely knot and bury unless I am hand quilting. But I have not entered a major national show. I have entered local shows.