What do you all use to tie a baby quilt? I was going to use crochet cotton. Cutting threads short. Does anyone else use this?

I use embroidery floss.

I use embroidery floss or Pearle cotton.

I use the light weight baby yarn. I leave about a 1 inch tail.
I like how they yarn frays after washing.

I use pearl cotton

I used to tie but now I bar tack...it does the same keeps the batting in place and I like it because there are no ties for the babies to possibky get loose and choke on.
Just a thought....

I use emb. floss or pearle cotton. Use 100% cotton. Tying a square knot helps too.

I use pearl cotton or embroidery floss. After I tie the tie I trim the tails to the depth of the first knuckle on my index finger. That length doesn't change through the whole quilt. It is about an inch.

When I hem children's clothes, I use the width of my pinkie to space the stitches and for older children I use my thumb as a spacer.

I figure that before there were rulers and such; people had to use some sort of measure. For me it is what is handy therefore my fingers.

Perle cotton...looks nice and ties easily without fuzzing or fraying.

I always used yarn.

What is bar tack? Another newbie here...

Bar Tack is when you zigzag in one place to form a tack (tie). You lower your stitch length, set your zigzag and go back and forth a few times. I do the whole quilt (baby size) and then cut the threads.

Happy Quilting.

When tieing a baby quilt the only thing to not use is Yarn
For some reason it comes untied easier than threads and can be easily swallowed and cause breathing problems. I have always used emb. thread, but pearl cotton works too. My grandmother used pearl cotton of some kind of cotton crochet thread and hers are still together.

I've used most everything. I've also used the 1/16, 1/8, and 1/4" satin ribbon to coordinate with the quilt.

I used to tie,now I use my fancy stitches on my machine,the delicate ones, and just spot one around. make sense?

I have cut very thin strips of the quilt fabric and pulled it through with an embroidery needle and then tied it off with a thorough knot.

If you bar tack (just a couple of zig zags) down the yarn or perle cotton, the tie cannot come loose and hurt the baby.

I do this too. It would be safer on a baby quilt. I have one that looks like a little star, but a little pearl buttonhole works well too.

I do that too - or one repeat of a design like a snowflake or a flower, if your machine has that.

I don't tie, I use a star pattern on my machine and go to the interections and do a pattern, star, bear, tree, pony, etc. It works and is a lot easier than doing all the tying. Jan

FYI:A foot literally was the length of some king's foot, forgot which one. A yard was literally from the tip of his nose down his outstretched arm clear to the tips of his fingers. (My mother would estimate the yardage of her stash that way, surprisingly acurate). An inch was the length of 3 barley corns. An acre was the area a man with a walking plow could plow in a day.
Today a dollar bill is 6 inches long.

I love this idea. I am going to use this on my next baby quilt

I've always been to afraid to tie baby quilts. When I do tie quilts It is for heavy use (like grandma use to make) so I use yarn cuz it's cheaper than pearle cotton (save that for buttonhole wool applique), and I also bar tack, just in case! I don't put anything on a baby quilt that could possibly come off in little hands or mouths.
JMHO

and welcome to the board from
t in NE PA :thumbup:

Wow, that sounds really cool!! Do u have a special machine for that? I am not that good of friends with my machine; but, I just got a new Bernina 240 that I love, so, I am trying to get better!
t
in NE PA

I have a 20 year old Bernina 1230 and it has those special stitches, altho I have not used them to "tie" a quilt but sounds like a cute idea. I'm not familiar with the 240 but it must be heavenly to have a new Bernina.

I use double strand of bed spread weight crochet tread. I bring the needle down and up twice.(making the loop holding the fabrics together double)Leave tails about 4 inchs long. Tie a square knote. The thread comes in many colors

I use pearle cotton and the decautor knot.

I use yarn...Crochet thread is okay too it really does not make a difference it is to your discretion.

You really shouldn't tie baby quilts because if the tie should come loose the baby can choke on it. I have used my sewing
machine and a fancy stitch like a heart and set my machine to only do one motif, then stitch that where I would normally tie it. They look really cute that way, and no fuzzy ends for baby to get caught on.

I have used embroidery floss.

I like the embroidery floss because it seems to knot tight and then trim about to 1/2" IF YOU CUT IT 1/4" IT SEEMS TO WORK OUT THE KNOT AFTER ALOT OF WASHING AND USE. WOW sorry I hit the caps by mistake.I wasn't yelling. lol Mary

That is how our group ties the baby quilts we donate to the hospital. We cut the ties to 1/2".

I use both the embroidery floss and the yarn, depends on the look you want. I too like the way the yarn frays and looks.

I've done the "bar tacks" only I used the cute little decorative stitches on my machine. On one I used a little duck, on another a little flower. The bar tack did well on a camouflage quillow.

I use crochet cotton for any quilts I tie. It works much better than yarn as it is not stretchy.

I used the bar tacks on a lighthouse quilt once. I used gold metallic thread and tacked where the lights in the houses were. Cute!

HI, I probably already know this, but, what is a square knot?
And what is a "bar tack"?

I also tied a quilt with DMC's neon green on my daughters quilt and she brought it back to me and asked me to resew some of the seams that had seperated after washing. While studying the quilt so that I could fix everything I noticed that all of the "tied" places had come untied and were coming out of the quilt.

My friend cuts her ties to a 1/4 inch, drives me nuts but I
guess it's what you like. I usually use emb. floss, cometimes crochet cotton depending on the color I need and what I have that color in. I like my ties about an inch then if they untie and I catch them (right!) they are easy to retie.

I used to tie now that I'am learning to machine quilt I have been doing machine quilting.. I tie with embroidery floss..

I used to tie now that I'am learning to machine quilt I have been doing machine quilting.. I tie with embroidery floss..