Securing ends.
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I'm about to start quilting a pattern (walking foot) that requires a gazillion, gazillion arcs, each one being started and finished at a point in the quilt body......not "off the edge". So I need a method for securing all my start stop ends that isn't going to drive me to despair! I have done a search on previous posts and it seems that many of you secure your ends by simply doing a few stitches at length "0" at the beginning and the end and then just snipping the threads. This appeals to me as being a lot quicker than pulling my thread through, knotting and then burying the ends for each arc. Would this method survive on a quilt that is going to be used as a throw quilt and therefore pummeled about a bit?
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I'm just going to jump in here - should all machines do a stitch length of 0? On my brother the smallest I can get it to I think is 0.2. I've made a few small pieces recently where I just forward/reversed a few times for the quilting
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For quilts that will get hard use and be washed a lot, I start a few stitches ahead of the beginning of the line, pull both threads up to the top, back stitch those few stitches, then start stitching. I backstitch at the end of the line, too.
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