Do you cut all your threads?
04-10-2011, 10:41 AM
#111
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by Lori S
I cut my threads .. I just hate working with an un-tidy block. I was raised in a family of sewers , when ever I made anything... they all flipped it to look at the back first , then the front. It was stressed that a good sewer's work was as clean and free of threads as the front. I just can't bring myself to not trim the threads.
Are you my long lost sister?
That was drilled into us too ... must trim and keep it tidy.
Annnnnnnnnnnnd you never re-did a seam (widened, straightened, etc.without taking out the previous stitches. And every time I don't do that now, I can hear my Mother chanting at me from beyond!! :)
Are you BOTH my long lost sisters? I ditto it all - even the part about my mother haunting me from heaven!
04-10-2011, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
Trim them off as I go.
Then before final pressing and quilting, I cover every inch of front and back, and trim off all the extra threads as well as any frayed edges.
As I do the final pressing, I watch and trim any that avoided me in the other passes!
Then before final pressing and quilting, I cover every inch of front and back, and trim off all the extra threads as well as any frayed edges.
As I do the final pressing, I watch and trim any that avoided me in the other passes!
04-10-2011, 11:03 AM
#113
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by Lori S
I cut my threads .. I just hate working with an un-tidy block. I was raised in a family of sewers , when ever I made anything... they all flipped it to look at the back first , then the front. It was stressed that a good sewer's work was as clean and free of threads as the front. I just can't bring myself to not trim the threads.
Are you my long lost sister?
That was drilled into us too ... must trim and keep it tidy.
Annnnnnnnnnnnd you never re-did a seam (widened, straightened, etc.without taking out the previous stitches. And every time I don't do that now, I can hear my Mother chanting at me from beyond!! :)
04-10-2011, 11:07 AM
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Hmm, now I have something else to think about. LOL. I tend to chain sew, so I have pretty short strings usually. I snip threads when I notice them, but I don't make it an issue and I don't go looking for them. This is on the back of the top I am referring to. I worry more about cutting them too short and having them come unstitched with wear and washing.
04-10-2011, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by wildyard
Hmm, now I have something else to think about. LOL. I tend to chain sew, so I have pretty short strings usually. I snip threads when I notice them, but I don't make it an issue and I don't go looking for them. This is on the back of the top I am referring to. I worry more about cutting them too short and having them come unstitched with wear and washing.
04-10-2011, 12:06 PM
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When I started learning to sew in the 7th grade, our teacher taught us to always tie thread endings before cutting and this has stuck with me even when quilting. Everyone has to make their own choice. Seems like when I am sewing my pieces together that if I don't tie them off they start coming apart.
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04-10-2011, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by QuiltE
Originally Posted by quiltmouse
start sewing on a postage stamp of fabric, then on to the quilt block, and I join several & end up on a thread dog. 3-4 stitches between units & snip that.
Another idea .....
I read in a magazine one time how you sew two quilts at once. when you have pieces for the "other" quilt waiting, and you use them in place of thread dogs. I haven't done this, but always thought it'd be a great way to sew scrappy squares or boring patches, without making any effort. They'd add up and you wouldn't get bored!
arf! arf!
Never thought of doing this. Glad to have a new idea and also get another top finished quicker.
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