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Question: How do you stop the rats nest that happens on vintage machines when you don't hold the threads? If you have a quilt under the pressure foot, how can you hold the threads?
I've been helping my sister, a teacher, with her 5th grade's class project, which is a quilt. My sister doesn't sew, so I go one day a week and help the kids. The kids quilted their communal quilt on a DSM, with a quilting foot (all straight lines).
I brought the quilt home to finish it up. I was cleaning up the left over threads, etc. and saw a couple of knots. It occurred to me that if you were FMQing (or other type of quilting in a DSM), you would have the same problem. You can't hold the thread tails.
I've only made a couple of small quilts, which I've taken to the long armer to quilt. So, I'm short on quilting experience. What's the solution?
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