You're a poet and don't know it. LOL

I bury, also.

I leave lots of thread on the back, then put a knot in those two top and bottom threads, about an inch up from the quilt and bury them in the quilt. All the threads I cut off I put in my flower gardens, the birds use them when nesting. (Every couple of years we take the bird houses apart and clean them out, repaint and put them back - they need doing again this year, [ATTACH=CONFIG]415907[/ATTACH] that is how I know they use the threads).

Depends on what I'm sewing. If it's utilitarian, I back stitch. Show quilt, I bury the knot. At the edge, I quilt off the front and let it be caught in the binding. FMQ, stitch in one place and start with tight stitches. I'm into "get er done".

This is exactly what I do. My Juki's thread cutter cuts the ends nice and short... then I go back with my curved scissor and snip them.

I've buried threads in the past, but with my ADD this made me absolutely crazy. I've decided for non-competition quilts, especially these first few that I'm learning on, I'm going with the method of pull the bobbin thread to the top, make 1/4 inch of micro stitches, clip the threads, then move on to a more regular stitch length. For ending, the technique I learned this weekend is similar - 1/4 inch of micro stitches, then move the quilt over (~1/8-1/4 inch) and tug on the top thread to pop the bobbin thread up - and trim the bobbin thread loop (no need to pull much of the bobbin thread up - just enough to clip) and trim the top thread. That way I don't have to did around under the quilt to clip the bobbin thread.

I'm sewing mainly on my Bernina 830 Record and don't have a backstitch.

Cheers, K