Originally Posted by
nannyrick.com
Do you have to KNOT and bury or can you just bury? Would like to know the answer to this.
You need to knot. It's not enough to just bury the thread ends.
If I were making a quilt for a show, I would knot and bury the thread ends, but that's the only time I would do it. For me, I found that taking 3 to 5 *tiny* stitches shows less than sewing in place for 3 to 5 stitches (creates a little lump). The stitch length depends on the batting used, but typically it's somewhere around a .5 stitch length on my Bernina. If in a particularly worrisome mood, I will backstitch just one of those stitches, but I seriously doubt that is necessary.