meyert

I am fairly new to machine quilting and I am only straight lining quilting, no FMQ (at least not yet) I am wondering.... when you all machine quilt do you do the lock stitching or back stitch? I have noticed on every video that I watch no one lockstitches or back stitches. When I do lock stitch or back stitch it is very unsightly on the back side. What do you guys do?

Tartan

QB members are kind of split half and half on this issue. I leave my threads long and knot and bury them in the sandwich with a easy thread needle.

BETTY62

I do not do either on the body of the quilt because I feel the quilting stitches hold the inter part of the quilt together. I do back stitch my binding where the corners meet.

franc36

Like Tartan, I knot and bury my threads using a cheater needle.

QuiltE

I'm in the knot and bury camp too!

I know some do a few stitches and clip their threads ... too dangerous for my likings! I would never feel "safe" that it would not ravel out with time.

Candace

Knot and bury when FMQing.

Knitette

If I'm doing SID or straight lines, I set my machine to a tiny stitch of about 0.5 and do 10-12 stitches before changing to a regular stitch. Same at the end of my lines, then use an easy-thread needle to bury the ends.

For FMQ I do 3 stitches in the same place at beginning and end of stitching and bury tails. Happy quilting

tessagin

Ditto. Same as everyone else.

cindi

I'm too lazy to bury threads. I either do a lockstitch or backstitch. I'm not entering my quilts in any shows, and the recipients of my quilts wouldn't know the difference!

DebraK

it really depends on the quilt and where I have to stop stitching for whatever reason. Lots of times I do both on the same quilt. Whatever the situation requires.