machine quilting - do you knot or not?
 

I am fairly new to machine quilting and I am only straight lining quilting, no FMQ (at least not yet) I am wondering.... when you all machine quilt do you do the lock stitching or back stitch? I have noticed on every video that I watch no one lockstitches or back stitches. When I do lock stitch or back stitch it is very unsightly on the back side. What do you guys do?

I do not do either on the body of the quilt because I feel the quilting stitches hold the inter part of the quilt together. I do back stitch my binding where the corners meet.

Like Tartan, I knot and bury my threads using a cheater needle.

I'm in the knot and bury camp too!

I know some do a few stitches and clip their threads ... too dangerous for my likings! I would never feel "safe" that it would not ravel out with time.

Knot and bury when FMQing.

If I'm doing SID or straight lines, I set my machine to a tiny stitch of about 0.5 and do 10-12 stitches before changing to a regular stitch. Same at the end of my lines, then use an easy-thread needle to bury the ends.

For FMQ I do 3 stitches in the same place at beginning and end of stitching and bury tails. Happy quilting :)

Ditto. Same as everyone else.

I'm too lazy to bury threads. I either do a lockstitch or backstitch. I'm not entering my quilts in any shows, and the recipients of my quilts wouldn't know the difference!

it really depends on the quilt and where I have to stop stitching for whatever reason. Lots of times I do both on the same quilt. Whatever the situation requires.