I paid close attention to Seedy’s instructions. Found enough of the same colored blue embroidery thread down in the garage to do whole quilt. Found threader at the bottom of my old sewing box...that was a triumph.
Looked up how to tie a quilt online. Tried the first technique which was twice through one spot, cutting, then knotting. Very correct. Very time consuming. Very difficult with a king sized quilt when you are short on hand eye coordination and own an arthritic thumb.
The next video showed the needle going through one spot and coming back right next to it….then without cutting the embroidery thread, moving on to the next spot. When you are done with a line of stitches, cut in the middle of each stitch then knot. The young lady who demonstrated this just zipped right along. I can say this was faster than the other more dogged technique.
I combined this method with rolling the quilt to keep it out of the way. Dr. Harriette taught me this trick of holding the rolled quilt with bicycle clips. It was slow but a go with the knots on the back yet the focus on the join of the blocks on the front.
The big problem appeared this morning. My eyes don't like this hand eye work at all and my world is a blur. I'll just keep going and maybe G will tie while I run the stitches.
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