colleen1978

Do you mean back up and re-stitch the last few stitches?

ganny

Ditto. No trouble at all. I always knot.

BeckiQuilts

I hand quilt my quilts, and have finally perfected the knotting process. I leave a long tail, so that when I can no longer reach across my frame, I just go to the other side and rethread my needle. Then I hide my knot. Is that a bad way to do it? I thought I made it up myself.

sawsan

Thanks for tut I wish u make a pic because i did not understand the rest after u go down from face then starting quilting then what ?
Any way my way is i make a knot and i go in the ditch, pull a little
Some time it didn't vanish ;-)

ktmo815

I pop the knot through my backing

cavmom

i have always popped the knot through.

jitkaau

When hand quilting, I always start and finish the thread by popping the knots into the batting.

Marysewfun

How about this idea (remember I am new to quilting) - but for knotless hand embroidery and hand sewing, I use say a length of floss/tread 20 inches long, double it over so it is 10 inches (sewing with double thread) and instead of threading the "loop" through the needle, thread the two tails through the needle, leaving a "U" shape at the bottom. Insert your needle through the quilt top and batting (not the back yet), leaving a loop of thread on top momentarily, bring your needle back up and then through the loop and pull it tight - you now have a secure stitch to start with and no knots to pull through anywhere. I use it for all of my hand sewing, including buttons, and embroidery.
Marysewfun

Crossstitcher

That's a good idea. I use that method when cross stitching. Never tried it when quilting.

cabbagepatchkid

No, when you measure out your thread make it twice as long as you normally would. Then insert your needle where ever you want to start quilting, but only pull half of the length of thread through....leaving the rest of the length just laying on top of the quilt.

After quilting with the first half of the length of thread, finish it off as you would normally do and then cut the thread. Now take the needle and thread it onto the "other" length of thread that is sticking out of the quilt top, where you first began quilting, and now you can use that end of the thread to start quilting in the opposite direction until you run out of thread again, knotting and cutting as normal.

I hope that is clearer than mud. This is the way that I do it.