Do you cut all your threads?
04-09-2011, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Granny Charley
I guess I am a real slob!!! I am making a scrap cazy quilt and I am not clipping any theady. When it is sandwiched no one will know the difference except me and now you!!!
04-09-2011, 02:58 PM
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I cut my threads as I go. This was drilled into me in Home Economics years ago. I can't stand the look of dangling threads. It only takes a second!
If my teacher saw a thread hanging we would immediately go down a grade. Last year when my granddaughter had sewing I was telling her the same thing. She got in the habit of cutting her threads and the teacher was so impressed she gave her extra credit.
A friend of mine just went to a quilt show and there were some quilts with hanging threads. I can't believe they would even allow one to be shown that way.
If my teacher saw a thread hanging we would immediately go down a grade. Last year when my granddaughter had sewing I was telling her the same thing. She got in the habit of cutting her threads and the teacher was so impressed she gave her extra credit.
A friend of mine just went to a quilt show and there were some quilts with hanging threads. I can't believe they would even allow one to be shown that way.
04-09-2011, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Treasureit
Originally Posted by rb.
My machine has auto cut. :)
04-09-2011, 05:45 PM
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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.
04-09-2011, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by rb.
My machine has auto cut. :)
04-09-2011, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Treasureit
Originally Posted by rb.
My machine has auto cut. :)
I'm starting to sew more with gray and cream and just let the auto cutter take care of it :thumbup:
04-09-2011, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Treasureit
Originally Posted by rb.
My machine has auto cut. :)
04-09-2011, 06:41 PM
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I, too, clip as I go. I guess this comes from general sewing but probably more from needlepoint and cross stitch. I was always taught with those art forms that the back of your work needed to be as neat as the front! Granted I don't go quite as crazy with quilting as I do with the others but I'm not too far off!
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