How do you tie off or secure the end of a line of stitching when you long arm quilt, I am taking lessons on a Knolting machine, any suggestions would be appreciated,

Yes, I need to know this too. I have a short arm on a frame, and all I know how to do it let the needle go up and down in one place to knot on the back. Thanks for any information on this tying off thing. Don't really know about it.

I don't know about tieing it off because when you put the binding on a quilt doesn't that cross over the machine quilting so there would no need to tie it off??? Just curious.

You can pull the bobbin thread to the top and then when you're finished quilting you take a needle and work all of your ends into the quilt.

For longarm quilting, I do it two ways:

1) Pull the bobbin thread to the top, leaving 2-4" excess. Tie a knot with the bobbin and top threads close to the quilt. Feed the tail ends into a self-threading needle or needle with a large eye. Bury into batting and pull through, popping the know into the center of quilt (wiggling needle into batting to hide and bury knot well). Come out and clip ends off .

2). When starting, pull bobbin thread to top. Hold onto both threads. Use needle up&down to make 3-4 tiny stitches by pulling gently on the thread tails to move quilt - this will almost sew in same spot, but not quite.

Both of these methods leave clean ends - the #1 is used for heirloom and competition quilting. #2 is great for everyday quilting. Both hold up extremely well. Both are done on longarm machines.

Debbie in Austin

I use method two above

agree with the few stitches at the edge, it's covered by the binding so it is really neat and secure

I just do a couple of stitches in the same place. It works for me.

great info