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How to Bury Short Ends of Threads

I prefer to bury the ends of threads when machine quilting.  Sometimes they are too short to handle with a needle alone.

I cam across this video today from Red Barn Studio that clearly demonstrates a clever method to accomplish this.

6 comments to How to Bury Short Ends of Threads

  • That was clever, Debbie! Thanks for posting it!

  • admin

    Yeah, I thought so too. I hassle with short ends all the time.

  • Rena Churas

    Am an embroidery enthusiast and teacher of same. Have used this method of handling short ends for years.No wasting silk embroidery threads!!!!!!!! Am not quite a quilter just yet–art quilts mainly.

  • admin

    Thanks for your comment. I have not heard of someone coming in the backdoor before….saying you are not a quilter yet. That is a new one. Most people struggle to break away from quilting in hopes of becoming an art (studio) quilter. You are in a good place. I wish I new more about using embroidery thread. I am new at hand work, at least in the slow stitch way. I hope to develop a style of stitching rather than traditional embroidery (decorative) stitches.

  • Judith Glover

    Thanks for this. Lyric Kinard first passed the technique from Robbie Joy Eklow along to me. I forgot it and then after I ran the end of a handicap needle into my palm at 11:00 at night and couldn’t get it out (had to go to the emergency room)I tried so hard to remember what Lyric told me. I couldn’t, but here it is!

  • admin

    I like to share tips and am grateful to the originator who ever that is!
    Ouch! What an awful injury, you really jammed it in deep. Thanks for commenting.

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