Hand quilting - how to finish
#32
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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I have been hand quilting for years and I have used a lot of the quilts on beds, so they have been washed often. They are all still intact, so far. Some of the fabric is very thin, but the stitches remain. I usually pull the thread through about an inch, then make a back stitch, complete the area and back stitch again. I also run the end through about an inch at the end.
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
#33
I've been hand quilting about 30 yrs. Here's my various ways to end. I usually end by tying a knot close to my last stitch and pop it through, not by pulling straight through to the back, but by running the needle sideways between the layers before exiting, so I have about a 1/2 in. tail buried along with the knot. (Of course I snip the thread right where it exits the quilt.) But if my ending thread is too short to tie a knot in, I take a backstitch and then run the needle between the layers before exiting, so that about 1/2 in. or more of thread tail is buried between the layers. Sometimes I will do a backstitch or two duplicating my last two stitches, so it doesn't show as a back stitch and then run the tail between the layers of the quilt. Sometimes my thread is just too short to do anything with, then I simply slip my needle between the layers as far as it will reach before exiting and leave a long tail of thread between the layers. I've never had problems with any of these ways coming unsewn after it is quilted. The main goal is no knots or thread tails on the surface.
#34
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Stanley NC
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Originally Posted by nigeria
I have been hand quilting for years and I have used a lot of the quilts on beds, so they have been washed often. They are all still intact, so far. Some of the fabric is very thin, but the stitches remain. I usually pull the thread through about an inch, then make a back stitch, complete the area and back stitch again. I also run the end through about an inch at the end.
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
#35
Originally Posted by teddysmom
Originally Posted by nigeria
I have been hand quilting for years and I have used a lot of the quilts on beds, so they have been washed often. They are all still intact, so far. Some of the fabric is very thin, but the stitches remain. I usually pull the thread through about an inch, then make a back stitch, complete the area and back stitch again. I also run the end through about an inch at the end.
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
#36
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Stanley NC
Posts: 981
Originally Posted by Happy Treadler
Originally Posted by teddysmom
Originally Posted by nigeria
I have been hand quilting for years and I have used a lot of the quilts on beds, so they have been washed often. They are all still intact, so far. Some of the fabric is very thin, but the stitches remain. I usually pull the thread through about an inch, then make a back stitch, complete the area and back stitch again. I also run the end through about an inch at the end.
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
I find hand quilting is very relaxing and satisfying.
Have fun!
#39
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Daytona Beach Shores, FL
Posts: 2,352
I do that a lot and sometimes if I'm at a seam I will stitch around a thread that connected the pieces and then make a knot and pop it through a seam. Once quilts are washed I think the thread just buy themselves in the batt, don't you?
#40
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: OFallon, MO
Posts: 2,282
Originally Posted by Greenheron
Originally Posted by barny
I have handquilted 2 or 3 quilts, and that is the way I finish off. Just pull it through. I've never seen any other way, except maybe backstitch once before pulling it through.
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