kaygee

I am having a problem remembering how to knot my thread when I am running out and want to hide my knot inside the layers of fabric and batting. I have no problem making the original knot by wrapping it around the needle 3 or 4 times and pulling it through to the end of the thread. Am I making sense?
Need Help'

sueisallaboutquilts

Yes, you are making sense! lol
I put my needle in where I'm ending and just wrap the thread around the end to make a single knot, then I bury it.
Am I making sense???? :D:D

barb55

If you are hand quilting/ I'm not sure but I think you wrap the thread around the neddle two or the times and push the neddle into the fabric, take a long stich and give a little jerk to pull the knot into the fabric.
I hope this is clearer than mud. That is the way I did it when I hand quilted, but I may be still wrong. Some other on this board may help you more

Painiacs

Yep that's it! Did it earlier!

Sienna's GiGi

Oh... You all made my day. I can't view youtube and I am getting an english paper piecing starter kit and had no idea how to knot while piecing by hand. I practiced some of what the posts here described and I got it! Excited.........
Oh Yeah!

nanac

I read your question twice, but I alro "read" it two different ways. The first way is that you are having trouble remembering 'how' to knot it, and the method described above works best for me, as well. The second way I 'read' was that you are having difficulty remembering where you left of. In answer to that, when I am quilting small pieces, I tie off several knots at one time, then I am ready to go to the next one without losing my place. If I have to leave off and come back to the quilting later, I put my needle or a straight pin in the place I want to pick up again.
Hope either of these are of help.
nanac

illinois

To knot or not to knot? My mother taught me her method and so far it seems to be successful. When I dome to the end, I leave enough thread to go back right next to where the needle came out, come back up at the last stitch and do it again, burying the thread between the layers.

Parrothead

My Grannie told me "A quilt should never know a knot." Two tiny stitches at beginning and at end. Her quilting has lasted 70+ years.

Sewflower

I don't put knots in mine either. Just put in two tiny stitches like Parrothead's Grannie. Did Counted Cross Stitch and you never make a knot. Hope this helps.

kaygee

So I make the knot first, then take the last stitch and hide the knot in the fabric? That's the way I have been doing it but
wasn't sure that was right.

Thanks everyone for your help. :-)